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One of my favorite things about medieval recipes is the way that the linguistic shifts make some of the phrasings pretty amusing to modern ears. For instance, in the Forme of Cury, a 14th-century English cookbook, the instructions for cutting a piece of meat into largeish pieces are "smite it to gobbettes."

Date: 2006-04-02 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morganlf.livejournal.com
gobbet is truly an underutilized word.

Date: 2006-04-02 01:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] donaithnen.livejournal.com
heehee, smiiiiiite!

Um, why am i up at 5, i mean 6 am? Oh yeah, stupid traffic school =P

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