[Sca-cooks] Synonym Assistance
Lilinah
lilinah at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 10 00:51:15 PDT 2008
I'm refining my 2006 translation of Stephane Yerasimos's book "A la
table du Grand Turc" (i've been working on it off and on for the past
year).
My first draft was almost automatic writing, not stopping to think
and just translating. Of course this led to some awkward passages and
some that were far too literal. I hope i've fixed most of those.
Yerasimos uses the French gelee (literally jelly) in a number of
places. He often uses if when referring to zerde, which is a type of
rice pudding, so in all those cases, i replaced it with, well, rice
pudding. However, it shows up in a couple other spots where it means
different things, in once case aspic.
The one i'm having trouble with is the application of gelee to
Paluze. This is a dish made of fruit juice, sugar, and wheat starch,
cooked until thick, then poured onto a marble slab to set, then cut
into pieces. Descriptions in other sources say it is chewy, and make
it sound as if it's almost like fruit leather, but not so tough.
I know that the English often say "jelly", where we USAmericans would
say jello, but that's a brand name; it's clearly not gelatin, since
no gelatin is involved; and i don't want to say fruit leather,
because it isn't quite.
For the moment i have "fruit gel", which isn't quite right either.
I was wondering if anyone might have a suggestion...
Thanks.
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