Enquire within upon everything: The great Victorian-era domestic standby — Page 13
Of late years English oysters have become scarce and dear; and in consequence the American Blue Point oysters find a ready market.
Negli ultimi anni le ostriche inglesi sono diventate rare e costose; e di conseguenza le ostriche americane Blue Point trovano un mercato pronto.
12. Beef.
12. Manzo.
The grain of ox beef, when good, is loose, the meat red, and the fat inclining to yellow.
La grana del manzo di bue, quando è buona, è morbida, la carne è rossa e il grasso tende al giallo.
Cow beef, on the contrary, has a closer grain and whiter fat, but the meat is scarcely as red as that of ox beef.
Il manzo di vacca, al contrario, ha una grana più compatta e un grasso più bianco, ma la carne è appena meno rossa di quella del manzo di bue.
Inferior beef, which is meat obtained from ill-fed animals, or from those which had become too old for food, may be known by a hard, skinny fat, a dark red lean, and, in old animals, a line of horny texture running through the meat of the ribs.
Il manzo di qualità inferiore, che è carne ottenuta da animali mal nutriti, o da quelli diventati troppo vecchi per essere consumati, può essere riconosciuto da un grasso duro e scarso, una parte magra rosso scuro e, negli animali vecchi, una linea di consistenza cornea che attraversa la carne delle costole.
When meat rises up quickly, after being pressed by the finger, it may be considered as being the flesh of an animal which was in its prime; but when the dent made by pressure returns slowly, or remains visible, the animal had probably passed its prime, and the meat consequently must be of inferior quality.
Quando la carne si rialza rapidamente dopo essere stata premuta con il dito, può essere considerata come la carne di un animale nel pieno della sua maturità; ma quando l'impronta lasciata dalla pressione torna lentamente, o rimane visibile, l'animale aveva probabilmente superato il suo momento migliore, e la carne di conseguenza deve essere di qualità inferiore.
13. Veal
13. Vitello
should be delicately white, though it is often juicy and well-flavoured when rather dark in colour.
dovrebbe essere di un bianco delicato, sebbene sia spesso succoso e saporito quando è di colore piuttosto scuro.
Butchers, it is said, bleed calves purposely before killing them, with a view to make the flesh white, but this also makes it dry and flavourless.
I macellai, si dice, dissanguano i vitelli appositamente prima di ucciderli, allo scopo di rendere la carne bianca, ma questo la rende anche secca e insapore.
On examining the loin, if the fat enveloping the kidney be white and firm-looking, the meat will probably be prime and recently killed.
Esaminando il lombo, se il grasso che avvolge il rene è bianco e dall'aspetto sodo, la carne sarà probabilmente di prima qualità e macellata di recente.
Vocabulary
- ultimi
- Last, most recent (masculine plural adjective)
- anni
- Years (masculine plural noun)
- ostriche
- Oysters (feminine plural noun)
- inglesi
- English (plural adjective referring to nationality)
- diventate
- Become (past participle, feminine plural)
- rare
- Rare, scarce (feminine plural adjective)
- costose
- Expensive, costly (feminine plural adjective)
- conseguenza
- Consequence, result (feminine singular noun)
- americane
- American (feminine plural adjective)
- trovano
- Find, encounter (third person plural present)
- mercato
- Market, marketplace (masculine singular noun)
- pronto
- Ready, prepared (masculine singular adjective)
- Manzo
- Beef, ox meat (masculine singular noun)
- grana
- Grain, texture of meat or material
- manzo
- Beef, steer meat (masculine singular noun)
- bue
- Ox, male bovine animal (masculine singular noun)
- morbida
- Soft, tender (feminine singular adjective)
- carne
- Meat, flesh (feminine singular noun)
- rossa
- Red (feminine singular adjective)
- grasso
- Fat, grease (masculine singular noun or adjective)
- tende
- Tends, inclines toward (third person singular)
- giallo
- Yellow (masculine singular adjective or noun)
- vacca
- Cow (feminine singular noun)
- contrario
- Opposite, contrary (masculine singular adjective or noun)
- compatta
- Compact, dense (feminine singular adjective)
- bianco
- White (masculine singular adjective or noun)
- appena
- Just, barely, as soon as (adverb)
- qualità
- Quality, standard (feminine singular noun)
- inferiore
- Inferior, lower in quality (adjective)
- ottenuta
- Obtained, gotten (feminine singular past participle)
- animali
- Animals (masculine plural noun)
- mal
- Badly, poorly (adverb, contracted form of male)
- nutriti
- Nourished, fed (masculine plural past participle)
- diventati
- Become (masculine plural past participle)
- troppo
- Too, too much (adverb or adjective)
- vecchi
- Old (masculine plural adjective)
- consumati
- Consumed, eaten (masculine plural past participle)
- riconosciuto
- Recognized, identified (masculine singular past participle)
- duro
- Hard, tough (masculine singular adjective)
- scarso
- Scarce, poor, lacking (masculine singular adjective)
- parte
- Part, portion (feminine singular noun)
- magra
- Lean, thin (feminine singular adjective)
- rosso
- Red (masculine singular adjective or noun)
- scuro
- Dark (masculine singular adjective)
- linea
- Line, streak (feminine singular noun)
- consistenza
- Consistency, texture, firmness (feminine singular noun)
- cornea
- Horny, tough in texture (feminine singular adjective)
- attraversa
- Crosses, runs through (third person singular)
- costole
- Ribs (feminine plural noun)
- rialza
- Rises back up, bounces back (third person singular)
- rapidamente
- Quickly, rapidly (adverb)
- dopo
- After, afterward (preposition or adverb)
- premuta
- Pressed, pushed down (feminine singular past participle)
- dito
- Finger (masculine singular noun)
- considerata
- Considered, regarded as (feminine singular past participle)
- animale
- Animal (masculine singular noun)
- pieno
- Full, complete (masculine singular adjective or noun)
- maturità
- Maturity, ripeness (feminine singular noun)
- impronta
- Imprint, mark left by pressure (feminine noun)
- lasciata
- Left, left behind (feminine singular past participle)
- pressione
- Pressure (feminine singular noun)
- torna
- Returns, comes back (third person singular)
- lentamente
- Slowly (adverb)
- rimane
- Remains, stays (third person singular)
- visibile
- Visible, able to be seen (adjective)
- probabilmente
- Probably, most likely (adverb)
- superato
- Surpassed, passed (masculine singular past participle)
- momento
- Moment, point in time (masculine singular noun)
- migliore
- Better, best (comparative adjective)
- deve
- Must, has to (third person singular of dovere)
- Vitello
- Veal, calf (masculine singular noun)
- dovrebbe
- Should, ought to (third person singular conditional)
- delicato
- Delicate, mild in flavor (masculine singular adjective)
- sebbene
- Although, even though (concessive conjunction)
- spesso
- Often, frequently (adverb)
- succoso
- Juicy (masculine singular adjective)
- saporito
- Tasty, flavorful (masculine singular adjective)
- colore
- Color (masculine singular noun)
- piuttosto
- Rather, quite, somewhat (adverb)
- macellai
- Butchers (masculine plural noun)
- dissanguano
- Bleed out (drain blood from, third person plural)
- vitelli
- Calves (masculine plural noun)
- appositamente
- Purposely, specifically, on purpose (adverb)
- prima
- Before (preposition or adverb of time)
- ucciderli
- To kill them (infinitive with clitic pronoun)
- scopo
- Purpose, aim, goal (masculine singular noun)
- rendere
- To make, render, cause to become (infinitive)
- bianca
- White (feminine singular adjective)
- rende
- Makes, renders (third person singular of rendere)
- secca
- Dry (feminine singular adjective)
- insapore
- Tasteless, flavorless, bland (adjective)
- Esaminando
- Examining, by examining (gerund of esaminare)
- lombo
- Loin, loin cut of meat (masculine singular noun)
- avvolge
- Wraps, surrounds (third person singular)
- rene
- Kidney (masculine singular noun)
- aspetto
- Appearance, look (masculine singular noun)
- sodo
- Firm, solid (masculine singular adjective)
- macellata
- Slaughtered, butchered (feminine singular past participle)
- recente
- Recent (adjective, referring to time of slaughter)
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