Palmiers (New ME Recipe)

Palmiers

paiste of dow pastry dough
sugre sugar
on egge beten one beaten egg

The tabil thou couer with sum of the sugre and place the paiste of dow hit on. Sprenkle sum of the sugre on the paiste and presse the sugre on to the paiste. To the myddel fold the sides of the paiste and sprenkle the paiste with more sugre and presse the paiste to ioyn hit. This do thou a secunde tyme. Spredd egge on a half of the paiste and fold the paiste and presse thight the seem. Sklyce the paiste and place the sclysses on the panne with space thaim enter. Place the panne into the furneise till the bases of the besquites be tosted and tourne the besquites and toste the now bases and coke totalement the besquites. Remou the besquites of the panne wile the besquites be ardant.

Cover the table with some of the sugar and place the pastry dough on it. Sprinkle some of the sugar over the pastry. Press the sugar into the pastry. Fold the sides of the pastry into the middle. Sprinkle with a little more sugar, and press lightly to seal it. Do this a second time. Spread egg on a half of the pastry. Fold the pastry and press tightly the seam. Slice the pastry and place the slices on the pan with space between them. Place the pan into the furnace till the bottoms of the cookies are caramelized. Turn the cookies, and caramelize the new bottoms and cook the dough throughout. Remove the cookies from the pan while the cookies are hot.

Text Style: Recipe

Tone: Serious

Lexical Features:
French
38 content words: Couer, tabil, sugre, place, paiste, presse, ioyn, sklyce, space, furneise, bases, besquites, toste, tourne, remou
4 function words: Secunde, enter, ardant, totalement
Old English
15 content words and all function words unless listed otherwise
Beten, dow, hit, fold, do, tyme, spredd, egge, half, seem, thaim, now, wile
Other Etymologies
Dutch: 9 content words: Sum, sprinkle, sides, myddel, panne,
Scandinavian: 1 function word: thight
German: 1 content word: coke
ME words resulting from affixing: totalement (-ment)

Semantic Features:
Generalizing or Narrowing: ‘spread’: unfold à spread : ‘scatter’
Abstraction or Concretization: OE ‘dah’: form of clay à ME ‘dow’: bread dough
ME paiste: dough à PDE ‘pasta’, ‘paste’, ‘pastry’

Grammatical Features:
Surviving inflections for ME nouns and adjectives:
Plural noun inflection: bases, besquites
ME pronouns
Hit, thaim, thou
ME weak and strong verbs
Beten, couver, place, sprinkle, presse, fold, ioyn, do, spredd, sklyce, toste(d), tourne, coke, remou, be
ME function words
With, the, of, and, on, to, this, a, into, till, wile, sum, more, enter, now

Syntactic Features:
ME phrase structures
Adjective-noun: the now bases
Object-Preposition: with space thaim enter, place the paiste of dow it on
Pro-Verb ‘do’: This do thou a secunde tyme.
Subjunctive: till the bases of the besquites be tosted
ME clause structures
OSV, SVO, (S)OV, OVS
ME sentence structures: Long Run-ons
To the myddel fold the sides of the paiste and sprinkle the paiste with more sugre and presse the paiste to ioyn hit.