biancomangiare

The biancomangiare (“white eating”) described in Respectable Pleasure is similar to the one that appears in Book for Cook a century earlier: peeled almonds and the boned breast of a capon (i.e., a rooster castrated so it fattens) are pounded to a pulp, then cooked in spices and sugar.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Beck ibid., p. 250 points out that the translator turned the Latin recipes into Italian gibberish: Platina had translated maccaroni Siciliani and biancomangiare as esicium frumentinum and cibarium album, which the secondary translator turned into exitio frumentino and leucofago.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

Beck ibid., p. 250 points out that the translator turned the Latin recipes into Italian gibberish: Platina had translated maccaroni Siciliani and biancomangiare as esicium frumentinum and cibarium album, which the secondary translator turned into exitio frumentino and leucofago.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983