Of Cookery$ l ?

That Cattle maj be more excellent to eat.

Cattle that use co feed on Mastcrwort, and co be first cleansed , will grow very sat,'and their flesh will be exceeding sweeti Pliny. Whence it is that this Benjamin isnot for many years to be found in Cyrene,because the Farmers,chat hire the grounds,finding more gain by it, devour them by their Cattel. Moreover in India, andchiefly in the Country of the Prasii, it rains liquid honey; which falling down ortthe grafs, and the tops of Reeds in the Lakes, is admirable food for Sheep and Oxen;and the Shepherds drive them thither, where most of this sweet dew falls from theAir, and there they arc feasted with ir, as with plealant bankets: and theyrecom-pence their Shepherds witb-a pleasant reward ; for they milk very tweet milk frondthem, and they have no need,as the Grecians do, to temper honey with ir. iÆu-an. But

Flow ‘Pullets are made mojl white , tender, and delicate ,

Such as I use to set before my friends: The way is. I (but them up five days in cham-bers or cellars, and I give them a dish full of chippins of bread, wet with milk, andsometimes with honey: fed thus, they will grow as fat as great Sappers in Fig time,and so tender, that they will melt in your mouth, and they taste better by far thenPheasants, Heath cocks, er Thrushes. And it seems theAntienrs knew this: Forfaith when a crammed Hen was forbid to eat at supper, by the Laws of the An-tients, they found out this evasion, to feed Hens with meats wet in milk; and sothey were far more delicate to set on the Table. And ColumeUa. They that willmake Birds net onely fat, but tender, they sprinkle the foresaid Meal with water andhoney new made; and so they fat them. Some to three parts of water, put one ofgood wine, and wet Whcat-bread, and fat the Bird ; which beginning to be fattedthe first day of the Moneth, will be very fat on the twentieth day.

Chap. VIT.

How the F Ujh of Animals may be made bitters and not to be eaten.

A Gain, if we will that Flesh (hall be rejected for the bitterness, and ill taste of it,

, we must do contrary to what hath been said: Or if we will not take the pains,we must wait the times that these creatures feed on such meats, as will do it, where-by sometimes they become venemous also. As if we would have

peers flesh become •venemotu ,

Simeon Sethi faith, That veers flesh, that is catcbt in summer, is poyson; becausethen they feed on Adders and Serpents; these are venemous creatures, and by eat-ing of them they grow thirsty : and this they know naturally ; for if they drink be-fore they have digested them , they are killed by them: wherefore they will abstainfrom water, though they burn with thirst. Wherefore Stags-flcfh, eaten ac thattime, is venemous, and very dangerous. Sometimes also

Partridge are noughts

Namely, when they catGarlick. The Chyrrhæi will eat no Partridge, by reason oftheir food - for when they have eaten Garlick they stink, and their flesh is stinkingmeat, that the Fowler will not eat them. So also

Quails, and Stares , are rejected,

at that time of the year, that black Hellcbour is the meat they like onely. Where-fore, when Quails feed onHellebour, they pot those that feed on them into sogreat danger of their lives, that they swell and suffer convulsions, and are subject tovertigo’s: Wherefore Millct-feed must be boil'd with them. Also

Birds are not to be eattn y

when