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

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius1 at verizon.net
Thu May 1 07:40:33 PDT 2008


On May 1, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Daniel Myers wrote:

> The weirdness of the word "aillie" in Enseignements
> stems from its use.  It is always used as a noun, but
> doesn't always seem to be a sauce containing garlic.
> My belief is that it's an early transitional form - in
> meaning a thickened sauce - which later evolved to
> mean "thickened" in French (Alié) and "to sauce"
> ("Alay") in Middle English.


I was just thinking of "lié", as in "fond lié" or "jus lié" in modern  
French...

Adamantius




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