[Sca-cooks] Salt fish recipes?-- I.E. SALTED (preserved) fish

[Gretchen Beck]

--On Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:31 PM -0400 ranvaig at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> Could "aillie" and "ail" mean aioli?  I've heard that mayonnaise isn't
> period, I'm not sure if aioli is, but it could be a precursor.

It's possible the two words have the same origin, whether or not they mean 
the same. The Dictionary of the Scots Tongue (http://www.dsl.ac.uk) has, 
s.v. Gansel

 [O.Sc. has gansell, from c.1470, used only in proverbial sayings and with 
the orig. meaning of garlic sauce; Mid.Eng. gaunsell, ad. O.Fr. ganse 
aillie , garlic-sauce, from ganse, some kind of sauce +  aillie , adj., 
from ail, garlic.]

toodles, margaret