tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post2827264529492966438..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Egge Satterday, the Buck's Bottom, and the ObalisquesFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-55227046632205994322024-02-15T16:18:36.722+00:002024-02-15T16:18:36.722+00:00A very amusing and interesting post every year. I ...A very amusing and interesting post every year. I think however the post errs in describing bachelors 'determining' as 'to complete the exercises for the degree of M.A.' Determining bacehlors were those who were permitted to uphold(or determine) a thesis (a proposition, rather than the present-day written dissertation) against an opponent. However, determining actually followed WH Dunnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02023885366075023904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15126470611966597872024-02-11T07:03:57.199+00:002024-02-11T07:03:57.199+00:00Now bachelors should best keep away from such stim...Now bachelors should best keep away from such stimulants ill-befitting their single status... but even married couples of old laid aside the use of marriage during Lent, and hence eating up leftover aphrodisiacs before Ash Wednesday would have seemed as sensible as finishing off fleshmeat, eggs, cheese, and everything else once spurned for the forty days - a final hurrah, as it were, before Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-79098197980324849822024-02-10T17:48:29.181+00:002024-02-10T17:48:29.181+00:00I do look forward to this post each year, once Sex...I do look forward to this post each year, once Sexagesima has passed, since, in addition to its own excellence, it serves as a reminder that whatever have been the trials, tribulations, and infelicities of the past year we are still among the living, sit nomen Domini benedictum.Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-81574850599892862602021-02-13T11:20:59.524+00:002021-02-13T11:20:59.524+00:00The molecule responsible for the smell of natural ...The molecule responsible for the smell of natural musk is called muscone. A number of other molecules have been synthesised which have similar smells. Such molecules are very important in perfumery, as muscone has been. See http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/muscone/musconeh.htm Simon Cottonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00067246172213711263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56259934538881407732020-02-24T00:43:16.209+00:002020-02-24T00:43:16.209+00:00Oh deer.Oh deer.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059920222709764278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61570227307450922702019-03-03T11:03:35.655+00:002019-03-03T11:03:35.655+00:00I have a vague childhood memory of eating musk sti...I have a vague childhood memory of eating musk sticks, but their flavour I've forgotten...<br /><br />They are, apparently, an acquired taste:<br /><br />https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2017/11/23/musk-sticks-lolly-divides-nationJoshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-28482739960679968052019-03-02T22:29:19.676+00:002019-03-02T22:29:19.676+00:00Well, it's most intriguing. Or at any rate, I ...Well, it's most intriguing. Or at any rate, I am most intrigu-èd. My SHORTER gives two separate words in a male form "muscadin" (sine 'e'); ignoring the second grape definition, the first says "A Parisian term for a dandy or exquisite... hence in contempt for a member of a moderate party in the French Revolution... composed chiefly of young men of the upper middle classJosephus Muris Saliensishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888638147153175697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-27604081154591811122019-03-02T18:37:40.921+00:002019-03-02T18:37:40.921+00:00I believe the word is odalisque
http://www.cnrtl...I believe the word is <i>odalisque</i> <br /><br />http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/odalisque<br /><br />And for a special memory:<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/apr/10/letter-stephane-audran-obituaryJhayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07064136312272621107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45488701708712209992019-03-02T14:38:32.271+00:002019-03-02T14:38:32.271+00:00Up until the 1920's, you folks in the UK had c...Up until the 1920's, you folks in the UK had commercial musk breath lozenges.<br /><br />So just as in the US, it seems like a lot of customs, ballads, tastes, and expressions survive in a colony, while dying off in the mother country.Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88346624335291301852019-03-02T14:27:54.744+00:002019-03-02T14:27:54.744+00:00Apparently musk Lifesavers are an offshoot of the ...Apparently musk Lifesavers are an offshoot of the Australian candy called "musk sticks." There are recipes for making musk sticks at home, and the only hard part would be obtaining culinary grade "musk essence."<br /><br />The Australians describe the flavor as filling the mouth in a way similar to mint, in that it makes your mouth seem cleaner and brighter. It is also Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6925404248102598712019-03-02T13:50:31.108+00:002019-03-02T13:50:31.108+00:00Musk-flavored Lifesavers are a thing in Australia....Musk-flavored Lifesavers are a thing in Australia. Holy medieval survivals, Batman! Although maybe it is just about being close to Asia?<br /><br />The Hirshon Arabian Fritters of the Caliph is a post trying to recreate jalabiya mushabbaka, as a Hanukkah dish (because oil-fried). It turned out more like jalabis, and looks delicious.Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45709977077881112152019-03-02T13:43:41.480+00:002019-03-02T13:43:41.480+00:00A Taste of Beirut blog has a recipe for "mush...A Taste of Beirut blog has a recipe for "mushabbak" jalabis served at New Year's. They seem to have the rosewater part (although they also have an alternative -- dip a nice fragrant sprig of geranium leaf in your sugar syrup instead!). Also they do different colors. <br /><br />But the original jalabbiya mushabbaka seems to be more of a fritter or funnel cake or churro, although Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87714422801627690762019-03-02T13:17:28.185+00:002019-03-02T13:17:28.185+00:00Actually... You might still be able to get musk-fl...Actually... You might still be able to get musk-flavored sweethearts in Oxford.<br /><br />You know those jalebi dessert things at Indian restaurants, the orange-colored drizzles made of flour, honey or sugar syrup, and yogurt?<br /><br />In certain cooking traditions, the honey is infused with rosewater, camphor, and musk. Obviously at that point, it is no longer a cheap dessert.<br /><br />MuskBansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-90758255811749011222019-03-02T12:43:03.071+00:002019-03-02T12:43:03.071+00:00I think the word you want (or perhaps don't) i...I think the word you want (or perhaps don't) is odalisques.Stephen Barberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10035020087162868502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-27154713614638230312018-02-14T11:50:27.112+00:002018-02-14T11:50:27.112+00:00St Cross College celebrated the Festum Ovorum a lo...St Cross College celebrated the Festum Ovorum a long time ago in the 1970's.oldiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07469935360557563517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62640775494508897562018-02-10T19:44:46.896+00:002018-02-10T19:44:46.896+00:00"A History of Agriculture and Prices in Engla..."A History of Agriculture and Prices in England" edited by Arthur George Liddon Rogers shows two entries for muscadine wine bought by New College Ocford in 1603. 3 qts in February and 2 pottles at Easter, both at 4 shillings per gallon. <br /><br />Cambridge also bought muscadine wine at several dates during that year. Jhayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07064136312272621107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-86579383748168093932018-02-09T20:08:45.739+00:002018-02-09T20:08:45.739+00:00I imagine fashionable Parisiennes would have to be...I imagine fashionable Parisiennes would have to be given up, as with the eggs then? RoyCamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06304220896382385174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-55523690367937757062018-02-09T18:36:10.835+00:002018-02-09T18:36:10.835+00:00I will happily send you muscadine vines, if you...I will happily send you muscadine vines, if you'd like to experiment in your garden and if the Customs authorities will permit it; two years before fruiting. I don't believe I've ever eaten the grapes or drunk the wine made from them, however, so cannot recommend them or it. Many thanks for your priestly service and for the wonderful writing here! I do remember you at the daily OfficeMarc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-63791375388759657722018-02-09T17:12:32.157+00:002018-02-09T17:12:32.157+00:00The web address at the head of this entry should r...The web address at the head of this entry should read http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/muscone/musconeh.htmÉamonnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560394580179348894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-51809808944934086652018-02-09T15:26:30.440+00:002018-02-09T15:26:30.440+00:00Presumably, as soon as there was a church near the...Presumably, as soon as there was a church near the site of the Ford for Oxen to cross the Thames. The Leofric Missal, probably copied from liturgical books brought from Rome to Canterbury by S Augustine, has it. So does the Sacramentary sent by pope Hadrian to Charlemagne. Oxford, England, Europe are probably in the same boat.<br /><br />What is jolly about Oxford is that when the Reformation Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-53658762150017331962018-02-09T14:23:35.881+00:002018-02-09T14:23:35.881+00:00Could you tell me, dear Father H, when the Assumpt...Could you tell me, dear Father H, when the Assumption began to be celebrated at Oxford and, second, how that timing compares to other locals in Europe?Ben of the Bayouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07300583569226801488noreply@blogger.com