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

[Mike C. Baker]

> > 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.]
> 
> That makes sense.  A lot of the names of dishes in Middle 
> English cookbooks are corrupted French.  I hadn't made the 
> connection between "gauncile" in TFCCB and "Jance a aulx" (or 
> ganse-ail) in Menagier. 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Doc

I *don't* know if this is directly connected or not, but consider also
that modern German "gans" (or approximately that rendition) translates
as "goose".  Grease from geese, or garlic sauce for a goose, or I dunno
what else THAT may imply.  Or not.

Amra
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