[Sca-cooks] true medieval bread recipes

[Galefridus Peregrinus]

"whipple" is a transliteration of "w-i-b-l". Plenty of Arabic words 
begin with that phoneme, but more often than not it's just the Arabic 
word for "and", which attaches itself to the beginning of words in much 
the same way the Latin -que attaches to the end of words. So it's "and 
i-b-l". "i-b-l" is a form of the verb "b-l", which means "moisten" or 
"make damp". Thus, the first few words are "Take semolina and moisten, 
and... [something I haven't figured out yet] salt in it..."


-- Galefridus

> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:11:11 -0400
> From: JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
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> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] true medieval bread recipes
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> Right. I would love to know what they turned into "Whipple". I'm 
> guessing  "aark" and "arca" are variations of the same word, probably 
> meaning to work or  to knead. But the phonetic breakdown of the 
> original (which Google Translate  provides) doesn't show anything very 
> close to those sounds.
>  Still, long experience with the tool leads me to render this much: 
> "Take  semolina. --- [water?] and add in the salt and as much [water] 
> as moistens it  and [do something] well [until that something is] 
> [done]"
>  jC
>  Jim  Chevallier
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> FRENCH BREAD HISTORY:  Seventeenth century bread
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> http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2016/02/french-food-history-seventeenth-century
> .html
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> In a message dated 9/26/2016 10:43:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
> galefridus at optimum.net writes:
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> If you  know the language even a little, you can usually figure out 
> how work with  the translation weirdness. Without such knowledge, it's 
> something of a  crap shoot.
>
>
> -- Galefridus
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>> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016  21:10:31 -0400
>> From: JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
>> To:  sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
>> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] true medieval  bread recipes
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>> You mean you can't just use Google  Translate?
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>> "Semolina taken  Whipple and makes the salt  and leaves as much as 
>> moisturizes and Aark well   Arca"
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