Pray for us sinners

[anastasiav]

I'm working with a recipe from Curye on Inglysch (actually from Harl. 2378) that says to "set it on the fire again the maintenance of a Ave Maria"

I've looked up Ave Maria, and its not so long, even in Latin. Its so short, in fact, that I can't imagine that saying it once would be a good timekeeping reference in this circumstance.

Anyone able to offer some idea of how long this might be? Less than a minute? Several minutes? Longer?

Comments

[peregrinning.livejournal.com]

I wonder if "an Ave Maria" means once around the Rosary, instead of once through the words...

[a-c-fiorucci.livejournal.com]

The whole rosary would be on the order of 20-30 minutes, at least if you rattle it off as fast as they do at Mom's church (in English).

I would thing just an Ave Maria would be ~1 min. what is the step in the recipe timing?

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

I would also say probably a minute or there about.

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

Its melting hot sugar, so maybe it is just a minute. Hmmmm.

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

Having just played with sugar in that respect, definitely about a minute then.

[peregrinning.livejournal.com]

Oh. Sugar. Definitely the short time. :-)

[tamarinne.livejournal.com]

I thought of the rosary thing too, and a little googling found that it was not uncommon (or so the internet says, untrusty shifty internet!) to have 10 Ave Marias strung together as sort of a mini-rosary.
http://www.pomian.demon.co.uk/rosary.htm

I think there was a recent Compleat Anarchist about beads and rosaries, I can poke around on my bookshelf when I get home too.

[tamarinne.livejournal.com]

Yes, there was a C.A. about it - excerpt and links here: http://www.beadbabe.com/archives/html/bedes_byddyng__medieval_rosari.html

[soteltie.livejournal.com]

Whatcha cookin'? I'm thinking that it means "quickly bring it back up to temperature" or "bring it back to a full boil" before the next step in cooking. Less than a minute. Just long enough to re-heat, but not long enough to scorch or get overly thickened...

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

Sugar. Hot, hot, sticky sugar.

I'm learning sugarwork with the aim of entering something fairly spectacular at K&Q's A&S at Mudthaw. We'll see if I can pull it off.

[soteltie.livejournal.com]

What fun! I've played with some of the early sugar recipes.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I remember, back in the beginning of the SCA Cooks list, that it was about a minute or so.

Don't recall the details right now.

What a hoot!

[malvinareynolds.livejournal.com]

The Ave Maria is what I have tooled into my garb belt. Also, there are a lot of paintings of Mary that, when you see them in real life, "Ave Maria Gratia Plena" is engraved, as it were, into the ground before the gold was applied in the halo, and this does not show up in pictures or books. Am quite amused that saying it is also a cooking timer!