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Chapter 34

Chap. XX. Of Things Containing Good Juices

Good juices are afforded by wheat, siligo, alica, rice, starch, tragum, milk, soft cheese, all venison, all birds of the middle class; of the larger kind also, those that we mentioned above; the middle kind betwixt tender and hard fishes, as the mullus, and lupus; pot-herbs, lettuce, nettle, mallows, cucumber, gourd, purslane, snails, dates; any of the apple kind, that are neither bitter, nor acid; wine sweet or mild, passum, defrutum, olives, or any of this fruit preserved in either of the two last mentioned liquors; the wombs, cheeks, and legs of hogs, all fat flesh, and glutinous, all livers, and a sorbile egg.