12-12-2025, 01:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2025, 01:51 AM by Bluetoes101.)
(11-12-2025, 07:21 PM)RenegadeHealer wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(27-10-2025, 04:22 PM)Bluetoes101 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Stumbled on these in cooking recipes today, thought may be of interest.
Indeed! And my question for you, Koen, and anyone else here who’s spent more time staring at medieval German cookbooks and grimoires than I have: Could "pox leber pinen Potifar” a historically accurate syntax for the name of a recipe, in an Alpine German dialect? I don’t speak German, and I want to heed Marco’s usual advice about looking for grammar and phrases, not just words.
My inclination is that it is not an accurate syntax but "marginalia speak".
I did a fair bit of deep dive to come up with my reading but I left it out because the "it's small" crew would come for me
. I have redone a little here (below).I leave out "pox" which has the clearest descender, but I think "pfer" is clear enough to show the others are not "p". I have a feeling I am in a team of one though, so I guess probably wrong.
Yellow = clear indicator, red = lack of. I felt like my m/n was consistently weird, but if Koen has a reading I shall shelve my 4 years of German I've never used (I am very good at asking to go to the toilet, or for various cakes) and bow to those that know more. I do think though that "not making logical sense" will have to be accepted with these marginalia scribbles, or they will just forever be nonsense "den mus mel! (ignore the problematic "p")"... I guess the video will show


