unusual French phrase

[dAVID sebire]

I have read the following phrase in the original text of Simone de Beauvoirs novel "Les belles images"

 

...Mettre les rondes de carottes sur le filet de hareng....

 

Est-ce que quelqu'un qui peut le traduire.Je ne peux pas le trouver nulle parte.

 

David SÉBIRE

 

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[stu harris]

Place the carrot slices on the herring fillet.

It's not unusual to find an infinitive where a 2nd person plural would be preferred. Mettez would be equally appropriate here.

[Ryan Kelly]

Infinitives can be used as a replacement for the imperative tense.

[Ryan Kelly]

But I've mostly only seen it in things like instruction booklets.