Christmas Cookies - New Translation

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opus101 said:
Is “vouchsafed” in the new translation? How is it pronounced?

I usually love jokes and humor, but this “recipe” left me feeling like something akin to sacrilege just occured. I’m not sure I get your tone. Can you clear it up for me?

I especially didn’t like the reference to “chalice” as a measuring device for cookies.

Quite frankly, the whole “joke” seemed in poor taste and somewhat adolescent.
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Everyone without a sense of humour was given fair warning prior to reading the post. Anyway, I thought it was :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: and don’t actually feel as though my soul’s in danger for reading and enjoying this post.
 
I want to try the recipe, but I know I will fall short of the mark and eat some of the raw cookie dough! Please, is this cookie abuse–LOL!

The OP did post a disclaimer about the need for a sense of humor. Most humor is a little on the sophomoric side, and that’s what’s funny about it. God gave humanity the capacity for humor, and I doubt that He isn’t big enough to crack a smile over this recipe!
 
I do have one correction to the new translation, though: With my proclivity to scarf down the raw dough, the recipe will only serve–ME!
 
I read this on the Commonweal site. If you scroll down from it and read the comments Fr. James Martin SJ composed a prayer over the Christmas cookies.
 
Joannm said:
I read this on the Commonweal site. If you scroll down from it and read the comments Fr. James Martin SJ composed a prayer over the Christmas cookies.
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Thanks for the reference! I got it via email from a couple of priest friends.
 
For reference, here’s the 1970s International Cookie Eating League (ICEL) “dynamic translation” in blue

Do not read if you don’t have a sense of humor:

Christmas Cookie Recipe
How we make Christmas Brownies

Serves: you and many.
All are served

Cream these ingredients, that by their comingling you may begin to make the dough:
1 chalice butter, 2/3 chalice sugar
We mix this stuff: 1 tub of margarine, 2 and 1/3 spoons of sugar

In a similar way, when the butter is consubstantial with the sugar, beat in:
1 egg
After we mix the margarine and the egg, we take out the sugar.

Gather these dry ingredients to yourself and combine them, so that you may add them to the dough which you have already begun to make:
2 1/2 chalices sifted all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla
The dough is the stuff we use to make the flour and the salt. Lots of people like vanilla.

Mix the precious dough with your venerable hands.
Throw all that stuff into a really big bowl.

Into the refrigerator graciously place the dough so that it may be chilled, for the duration of 3 or 4 hours, before the rolling and cutting of the cookies.
Stick it in the fridge

When, in the fullness of time, you are ready to bake these spotless cookies, these delicious cookies, these Christmas cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
ICEL decided not to translate this line.

Roll out the dough and, taking up a cookie cutter or stencil of your choosing, fashion the cookies into pleasing forms.
Make it flat. We draw pretty shapes. That looks nice.

Sprinkle colorful adornments over cookies like the dewfall.
Look, Jane, look. See raisins fall. Fall, raisins, fall.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the cookies have just begun to manifest the brownness that is vouchsafed to them by the oven’s heat.
We toss the brownies into the oven.

May these cookies be found acceptable in your sight, and be borne to a place of refreshment at your table, there to be served with milk or hot chocolate, or with your spirits.
We like brownies. Mmmmmm good.

Merry Christmas!
Happy holidays!
 
I cried from laughter from that last 1970 ICEL version. The part about the untranslated line was sublime.
 
YoungTradCath said:
I cried from laughter from that last 1970 ICEL version. The part about the untranslated line was sublime.
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You shouldn’t use the word “sublime.” No one knows what it means. No one can learn a new word. No one can understand any words beyond a 3rd grade level.

Haven’t you been reading the comments about the new translation?
 
FrDavid96 said:
You shouldn’t use the word “sublime.” No one knows what it means. No one can learn a new word. No one can understand any words beyond a 3rd grade level.

Haven’t you been reading the comments about the new translation?
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…-_-… For a minute, I thought you were serious.
 
FrDavid96 said:
For reference, here’s the 1970s International Cookie Eating League (ICEL) “dynamic translation” in blue
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Not quite. The 1973 version would have to go like this:

Gather diverse ingredients from every corner of the earth. Mix the ingredients with love until the flavors have mellowed and everything is in peace and harmony. Peacefully put the dough in the fridge. Lovingly chill it. Cut the cookies in peace, and then bake them with love. Love. Peace.

(Cookies may be distributed at Berkeley, or at any ashram, anti-Nam rally, or other peaceful coming-together of loving people.)
 
ICEL= International Cookie Eating League: Well, now we know what they were doing in 1973!
 
FrDavid96 said:
For reference, here’s the 1970s International Cookie Eating League (ICEL) “dynamic translation” in blue

Do not read if you don’t have a sense of humor:

Christmas Cookie Recipe
How we make Christmas Brownies

Serves: you and many.
All are served

Cream these ingredients, that by their comingling you may begin to make the dough:
1 chalice butter, 2/3 chalice sugar
We mix this stuff: 1 tub of margarine, 2 and 1/3 spoons of sugar

In a similar way, when the butter is consubstantial with the sugar, beat in:
1 egg
After we mix the margarine and the egg, we take out the sugar.

Gather these dry ingredients to yourself and combine them, so that you may add them to the dough which you have already begun to make:
2 1/2 chalices sifted all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla
The dough is the stuff we use to make the flour and the salt. Lots of people like vanilla.

Mix the precious dough with your venerable hands.
Throw all that stuff into a really big bowl.

Into the refrigerator graciously place the dough so that it may be chilled, for the duration of 3 or 4 hours, before the rolling and cutting of the cookies.
Stick it in the fridge

When, in the fullness of time, you are ready to bake these spotless cookies, these delicious cookies, these Christmas cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
ICEL decided not to translate this line.

Roll out the dough and, taking up a cookie cutter or stencil of your choosing, fashion the cookies into pleasing forms.
Make it flat. We draw pretty shapes. That looks nice.

Sprinkle colorful adornments over cookies like the dewfall.
Look, Jane, look. See raisins fall. Fall, raisins, fall.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the cookies have just begun to manifest the brownness that is vouchsafed to them by the oven’s heat.
We toss the brownies into the oven.

May these cookies be found acceptable in your sight, and be borne to a place of refreshment at your table, there to be served with milk or hot chocolate, or with your spirits.
We like brownies. Mmmmmm good.

Merry Christmas!
Happy holidays!
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Very funny. 👍
 
I sent the first translation to a friend who had just spent the weekend baking Christmas cookies. She about fell off her chair laughing. She and I have also been trying to use consubstatial in ordinary conversation, just to see people’s reactions. 😛
 
FrDavid96 said:
May these cookies be found acceptable in your sight, and be borne to a place of refreshment at your table, there to be served with milk or hot chocolate, or with your spirits.
We like brownies. Mmmmmm good.
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And this is a retranslation of “mors cordis”?
You shouldn’t use the word “sublime.” No one knows what it means. No one can learn a new word. No one can understand any words beyond a 3rd grade level.
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Now THAT’s funny.
 
Vouchsafed is used in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, used by the traditional anglocatholic church.
 
FrDavid96 said:
For reference, here’s the 1970s International Cookie Eating League (ICEL) “dynamic translation” in blue

Do not read if you don’t have a sense of humor:

Christmas Cookie Recipe
How we make Christmas Brownies

Serves: you and many.
All are served

Cream these ingredients, that by their comingling you may begin to make the dough:
1 chalice butter, 2/3 chalice sugar
We mix this stuff: 1 tub of margarine, 2 and 1/3 spoons of sugar

In a similar way, when the butter is consubstantial with the sugar, beat in:
1 egg
After we mix the margarine and the egg, we take out the sugar.

Gather these dry ingredients to yourself and combine them, so that you may add them to the dough which you have already begun to make:
2 1/2 chalices sifted all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla
The dough is the stuff we use to make the flour and the salt. Lots of people like vanilla.

Mix the precious dough with your venerable hands.
Throw all that stuff into a really big bowl.

Into the refrigerator graciously place the dough so that it may be chilled, for the duration of 3 or 4 hours, before the rolling and cutting of the cookies.
Stick it in the fridge

When, in the fullness of time, you are ready to bake these spotless cookies, these delicious cookies, these Christmas cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
ICEL decided not to translate this line.

Roll out the dough and, taking up a cookie cutter or stencil of your choosing, fashion the cookies into pleasing forms.
Make it flat. We draw pretty shapes. That looks nice.

Sprinkle colorful adornments over cookies like the dewfall.
Look, Jane, look. See raisins fall. Fall, raisins, fall.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the cookies have just begun to manifest the brownness that is vouchsafed to them by the oven’s heat.
We toss the brownies into the oven.

May these cookies be found acceptable in your sight, and be borne to a place of refreshment at your table, there to be served with milk or hot chocolate, or with your spirits.
We like brownies. Mmmmmm good.

Merry Christmas!
Happy holidays!
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:rotfl:
 
Quick, somebody needs to provide the 1962 version: Biscocta dulcea pro vobis et pro multis per Festum Nativitatis D.N.J.C. 😃
 
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