Re: Teonaht Recipe Page (WAS: A Request for Ray)

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Clinton Moreland-Stringham wrote:

>         Sure! I'll just keep collecting them slowly, until I have
> enough...
Here's the text version: the same in HTML is on my web page

    http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/valdyas/nutball.html

It's only the same thing with <pre> </pre> around it; I don't use
frames on principle.

   Irina

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                     irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself)
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    http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)
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     Biryinin tacholsenan da folay      To make nut balls.
     fere.

     Biryinan nestyenan sa hyrnena      Take almonds or other nuts and
     custay ali so myray az dayen       grind them with water or wine
     sa sumen datay dayan hostea cul    until the liquid looks white
     brythea lea chalet. Byren li       like milk. Put it in a
     denay. Cyne samina nadayenan       pot. Then put in dried fruit,
     crinena li denay so rustei so      cut up small, and enough bread
     ostenin crosei ersinin irashean.   crumbs and sponge cake crumbs.
     Lhasea dilynay dustie sa chelie    To make it taste good, add sugar
     so carisinen. Ayali meray datay    or honey and spices. Simmer until
     bruvie gori. Rhisay tacholsenan    it's nice and stiff. Let cool and
     so folay.                          make little balls.


Use ground almond paste (like peanut butter only made from almonds,
from a health food shop) diluted with about double the volume of
white wine. Bring it to the boil in a thick saucepan; the original
recipe doesn't mention this, probably because whoever wrote it down
assumes that simmering implies having boiled first. As soon as it
boils, thicken it with fresh breadcrumbs and/or cake crumbs; if you
started with half a jar of almond paste you'll need a good double
handful. Keep stirring or it will stick to the saucepan. Flavour with
demerara sugar, ground ginger and cinnamon. It's a traditional
Valdyan sweet.


The text taken apart

biryinin  ta.cholsenan   da        folay       fere
nut-gen-p DIM.ball-acc-p in-order- make-2s-PRS -to
                         da V fere: "in order to V", "so that V"

biryinan  nestyenan  sa hyrnena     custay      ali    so  myray
nut-acc-p eye-acc-p  or other-acc-p take-2s-PRS P3pN-O and grind-2s-PRS
(eye-nut = 'almond')                            "them"

az            dayen       sa sumen      datay dayan        hostea
together.with water-dat-s or wine-dat-s until liquid-acc-s white-acc-s

cul  brythea    lea chalet
like milk-acc-s LEA look-3s-IRR
                Impersonal construction: lea is an "empty pronoun",
                only there because the verb needs a subject. The
                logical subject dayan is in the object form.

byren     li     denay
pot-ill-s P3sN-O put-2s-PRS
          "it"

cyne samina      nadayenan crinena       li     denay
then fruit-acc-c dry-acc-p divided-acc-p P3sN-O put-2s-PRS
                                         "it"

so  rustei      so  ostenin   crosei     ersinin     irashean
and bread-gen-s and egg-gen-p cake-gen-s crumb-gen-c enough-acc-s

                irashen is a numeral really; it means "a count of
                ten" < "a double handful" (with dual prefix i-)

lhasea           dilynay      dustie      sa chelie
taste.nice-acc-s cause-2s-PRS sugar-ins-s or honey-ins-s

so  carisinen
and spice-ins-c

ayali      meray         datay bruvie          gori
everything simmer-2s-PRS until look.nice-ins-s stiff-nom-p

rhisay    tacholsenan    so  folay
cool-2s-s DIM.ball-acc-p and make-2s-PRS


Abbreviations:


2       second person
3       third person
acc     accusative case
c       collective plural number
dat     dative case
DIM     diminutive prefix
gen     genitive case
ill     illative case
ins     instrumental case
IRR     irrealis aspect
LEA     pronoun "lea" in context where it can't be translated
N       neuter
nom     nominative case
O       object form of pronoun (oblique case)
P       pronoun
p       plural number
PRS     present tense
s       singular number