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eolds, tho* they reckon beef cooler than mutton; they will 
likewile treat you with ftewed hare, Hewed and roaftcd pullets 
and partridges, thefe they disjoint, and if they are not fat 
enough of thcmfelvcs, they let them Itew in water and oil or 
butter; when they are almoft enough, they beat a couple of 
eggs, which they mix with the liquor, together with juice of 
lemon or vinegar, which they ulually have very good, and 
then Icrve them up; then you have more baked and roafted 
meat and another dilh of Itewed meat, which is extremely 
good; they take a leg of mutton, cut off the flefliy parr, leav- 
ing out the fkin and finews ; this flefh they mince very fine, as 
allblomefuet, parfly, thyme, mint, ^c. with a knife in each 
hand, which they hold acrofs, andmanage with great dexterity; 
then they take pepper, fait, and f.iffron beaten together and 
fome nutmeg, thele they add to the reft, with about half a 
handful of rice ; they cut an onion of the beft fort half through, 
taking off the firft coat, as not lb fit for ufe, unlefs it be thick ; 
this coat they fill with forced meat, then the next, and lo on, 
which makes them look like fo many onions, fome they put up 
in the beft vine-leaves; whilft this is doing, the bones, and 
what remains of the legs of mutton, being in moderate pieces, 
are ftewmg with as much water, as will juft cover them, then 
they put their forced meat balls atop of the meat, and over 
them a green bunch of grapes, and then cover it, and let it 
boil till it is thoroughly enough; this Ur. ^o^ies reckons one 
of their beft difhes, and which they often ule in Fez and other 
cities: ^illo^xe or Tilh is a dilh very well known, being 
made with boiled rice, a good pullet, mutton and fpice ; the 
fleih and fowl is laid upon the rice in a di^'h, as Cuskfoo, and 
fo ferved up. Mr. Jones eat once of a buftard, which they 
roaft and ftew (befides they make an excellent di(h of its guts) 
which feemM to him very pleafant and favoury and very grate- 
ful to the ftomach ; this bird, as likewile the hedge-hog, is fit 
for their king's table ; then they have ragouts, made with fpar- 
rows, pigeons, ^c. Their drink is plain water or milk, and 
fometimes Rob of wine mixed with water; this liquor is very 
grateful and pleafant; it is efteemed a remedy againft cold, 
and they pretend to take it medicinally; for Rob ot grapes 
is allowed by their law; under this pretence many Feffee 
merchants prefs all the grapes in their vineyards to make Rob 
or vinegar, which they put up in great jars under ground, and 
keep it long till it prove excellent wine: When a number of 
them, wirh every one his miftrefs, appoint to be merry, they 
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