[Sca-cooks] bread recipe in Fadalat al-Jiwan fi Tayyibat al-t'aam wa-l-

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I don't know if this will help anyone, but here's what I got from Real 
Academia Espanola (www.rae.es) which is the online dictionary of the Spanish 
language I use most often.

(Info interspersed.)
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In a message dated 9/5/2007 9:02:56 AM Mountain Daylight Time, Urtatim writes:


> NOTES:
> Babelfish could never translate "vasija" - is 
> this a special shaped container or just a 
> "vessel"?

>From RAE:
f. Pieza cóncava y pequeña, de barro u otra materia y de forma común u 
ordinaria, que sirve para contener especialmente líquidos o cosas destinadas a la 
alimentación

My translation:
A small, hollow piece of clay or other material and of common, ordinary form 
that serves to hold liquids (especially) or things to be eaten



> OK, i found a translation of "sobar" (to fondle, 
> to paw, to grope), but it doesn't make a lot of 
> sense in this context.
> 


Another translation of sobar is "to knead" which is how I would have 
translated this one off the cuff.  

According to RAE, sobado(a) means:

adj. Se dice del bollo o de la torta a cuya masa se ha agregado aceite o 
manteca.

which I translate as "An adjective used of a bun or torte whose dough has oil 
or butter mixed in".


> OK, some elusive ingredients in other recipes:
> alm?ciga (Bablefish said "seedbed" and an on-line 
> dictionary said it was a plant nursery) but it 

> appears in a list with cinnamon, pepper and 
> ginger - is it mace?


almaciga is also related in the RAE to lentisco which is a Mastic Tree.  
Almaciga is the mastic resin according to my college Spanish dictionary.  I don't 
know what that works out to in cooking.  The lentisco has small flowers, but 
RAE doesn't say if they are edible.


> alones - what part of a chicken is this?
> 

Alones (alon) are wings of fowl.
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