[Sca-cooks] Documentation Help

Susan Fox-Davis selene at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 4 09:25:30 PST 2005


Daniel Myers wrote:

> I knew I'd seen at least one instance of this, and after a brief 
> search I found it.
>
>
> From:  Libro di cucina/ Libro per cuoco, Louise Smithson, (trans.)
> http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/libro.html
>
> CXXVII To candy fresh almonds, peaches, walnuts that are perfect, 
> neither too hard nor too soft etc.
> ...<snip> ... Then let them boil in honey for the time it takes to 
> recite six “Our Fathers”.  

Elapsed time of one Our Father [Pater Noster] in Latin, at a reverent 
pace, appears to be approximately one minute.

http://www.kensmen.com/catholic/paterchant.html

Selene




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