I was reading through your site and found German Almond Bacon.
As I learned HS French, "I like to eat le Noun" implies use of all extant Noun worldwide, whereas "I like to eat du Noun" limits the quantity to a mere "some" of extant Noun and retains the sense of Noun being a favorite food.
Hence "add des Amandes" restricts the addition to the already-called-for almonds. "Add les Amandes" would send a cook looking for more.
Best Pancakes came out thicker and gummier than I like crêpes, but were good filled with chocolate pastry cream. My go-to recipe for crêpes has six eggs for two cups each milk and flour.
Yup! I took HS French as well (...and was an exchange student there for a year). Two caveats to the translation: one, it's from archaic 1604 French/Walloon, and two, someone else did it, although I helped. He translated it that way to be consistent with the other occurrences in the text.
However, he agrees with my interpretation for this recipe. 8)
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Date: 2008-08-04 06:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-06 03:11 am (UTC)As I learned HS French, "I like to eat le Noun" implies use of all extant Noun worldwide, whereas "I like to eat du Noun" limits the quantity to a mere "some" of extant Noun and retains the sense of Noun being a favorite food.
Hence "add des Amandes" restricts the addition to the already-called-for almonds. "Add les Amandes" would send a cook looking for more.
Best Pancakes came out thicker and gummier than I like crêpes, but were good filled with chocolate pastry cream. My go-to recipe for crêpes has six eggs for two cups each milk and flour.
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Date: 2008-08-06 03:08 pm (UTC)However, he agrees with my interpretation for this recipe. 8)