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Re: DCKL translation problems: {'Im}

Teresh000 ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

ghItlh Quvar:

> >>with a mixture of {ngat} ("herbed granulated cartilage") and {tIr} 
> ("grain")
> 
> >"herbed granulated cartilage"?
>  I've searched many dictionaries, so I somehow understand the words, and I 
> could imagine what it is. 
> But I can't find another word for it, let stand translate into german.
> 
One method of making pie crust is to cut flour into butter or
lard, which results in small pellets of flour-coated fat. The 
flour coats the lard or butter and keeps it from re-congealing.
I always imagined herbed granulated cartilage as something
similar: a thick fatty substance in the shape of pellets coated
with a mixture of herbs (dried and pulverized plant leaves
and/or flowers, maybe).  Or it could also refer to the thick
rubbery ends of bones run through a grinder and then coated
with herbs.

If the {tIr} is also ground up, like flour, then when it is added
to the {ngat}, it may end up producing a kind of dough. This
could be packed around the block of {tlhagh} like modeling
clay around a brick.  When such a thing was put in boiling
oil, it would form a sort of crust, like a baked Brie, only fried.

Yum.

-- ter'eS

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