[Sca-cooks] goats milk cheese recipe

[wheezul at canby.com]

I think Nam would agree with your decision.  Translating roughly the very
issue of the variants of the spelling starting in the 12th century is
addressed.  Because of the nature of the almost identical pronunciation we
have a whole "palette de declinaisons: bombax, bombex, bambix, bombacium,
bambacium, bombecium, bambaxium, bambasium, bombace, bambace, bonbace,
banbace, bambagio, banbagio, bambagia, banbagia, wambasium, gambasium." 
The explanation continues that the most used terms were "bombace (bambace,
banbace, bonbace) and bambagio (bambagia, banbagio, banbagia)".  To
correct my typo - that's the *Brill and not *Bill*.

It is a common thought in the SCA that medieval people did not have cotton
clothing, and that is far from universally true.  It's one of those
"spices cover the rotten meat flavor" blanket statements. It's probably a
partially a backlash against cotton t-tunics.

Returning to topic - one wonders if there was a lightly woven cheese cloth
used?

Katherine


> Katherine wrote:I wonder why the author would not take Scappi at his word
> on the
> cotton?
>
>
> It was common in Italy by then (and indeed had been for centuries).  I've
> been on a 'cotton binge' reading the latest academic works.  "Le commerce
> du coton en M?diterran?ee ? la fin du Moyen Age" part of Bill's The
> Medieval Mediterranean (2007) by Jong-Kuk Nam leaves no doubt.  I am still
> chuckling over the German scam of putting the Venetian trademark on their
> fustian because it was of a higher quality than theirs and the resulting
> Venetian bruhaha.
>
> Well because I'm the author in question (my translation). As to why not
> take
> scappi at his word, well his word was bombagino.  Now the 20th century
> dictionary translates that as cotton stuff, but it in no way indicates
> that it
> was necessarily made of cotton in 16th century Italy. Looking now at
> florio's
> dictionary (1610) even there it appears to be cotton. Bombagia - all
> manner of
> cotton wool.  So it may indeed be a cotton sleeve or sock for straining.
> I'll
> correct the footnote.
>
>
> Helewyse
>
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