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Poetry & Literature / children's stories | | English term or phrase: pickling tub | In the fairy tale "The Ogre's Bride" (here is a slightly different version which can be read online: http://bit.ly/dTwAP ) retold by J.H. Gatty Ewing, there is a strange way of cooking hares:
By his daughter's desire the farmer now procured a large number of hares, and a barrel of white wine, which expenses completely emptied his slender moneybox, and on the day of the ogre's visit, she made a delicious and savoury stew with the hares in the biggest *pickling tub*.
Of course the story doesn't explain why she used a pickling tub to prepare a stew, but until today I had assumed a "pickling tub" was a tub for making pickles, not stew. Can anybody help me understand what it actually is? |
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| | English translation:A large pan | Explanation:
It's the same idea as the pans used in jam making, sometimes called a preserving pan. |
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9 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +5 The meat is marinated
Explanation:
The way I read it, the woman first "pickles" (= marinates) the meat in wine before she cooks it. So she probably uses this special pot to put the hare in, poor the wine and spices over it, let it rest for a few hours, then cook it.
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