. Breakfast, dinner and supper. How to cook and how to serve them ... ng of animal food. Ovens are often mentioned in the Bible. In the cities andvillages they were located generally in the establishmentsof bakers (Hosea vii, 4), or in large private ovens were used by many who lived in a nomadicway. The portable oven was a large earthen jar, wideningat the bottom, and having a side opening there by which toextract the ashes and to insert the breador meat. These are referred to as thepossession of every family, in Exodusviii, 3; though in time of destitution, orscarcity
. Breakfast, dinner and supper. How to cook and how to serve them ... ng of animal food. Ovens are often mentioned in the Bible. In the cities andvillages they were located generally in the establishmentsof bakers (Hosea vii, 4), or in large private ovens were used by many who lived in a nomadicway. The portable oven was a large earthen jar, wideningat the bottom, and having a side opening there by which toextract the ashes and to insert the breador meat. These are referred to as thepossession of every family, in Exodusviii, 3; though in time of destitution, orscarcity of fuel, one oven answered formany families, as Leviticus xxvi, 26>shows. These ovens could be hastilyheated by a quick fire of twigs, grasses,etc., which fuel suggested the referencein Matthew vi, 30, to grass, which to-dayis in the field and to-morrow is cast intothe oven. Loaves or meat were placed inside, and thincakes upon the outside of these ovens. The remote East, the land of spices, was the first todevelop cookery in its higher ranges. Carefully wrought. ANCIENT EGYPTIANOVEN. THE ART OF COOKING. 21 and highly seasoned dishes were first prepared there. Manycurious notions are recorded of the various nations in re-spect to food and cooking. The universal custom in Orientallands is to cook meat as soon as killed. It never becomescold, as with us. Goose is a great favorite with the Egyp-tians. Plutarch says only one class of this nation wouldeat mutton, and at Thebes it was wholly prohibited. Pud-dings made from the blood of slaughtered animals werefavored by Egyptians but hated by Moslems. Egyptiansnever ate the head of any animal. Pastry among them wasworked into the shapes of animals, and was always sprinkledwith caraway and anise. The Greeks esteemed cookery so highly, that royal per-sonages took pride in preparing their own meals. Homerspoems contain many illustrations of such once personally served up a great feast, its specialfeature being that s
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