Another Dish Like That with Saffron

Clean a pullet and put it in a pot, take out the breast, as in the preceding, and throw in [reading yuqlâ as yulqâ] two spoonfuls of strong vinegar, and two of fresh oil and a quarter spoonful of good murri, half a dirham of saffron, cleaned almonds and whole onion, salt as may be needed, and water to cover the meat, with leaves of citron and fennel stalks. Then put it on a moderate charcoal fire until it is nearly cooked, and then put in meatballs made from the breast meat, finish their cooking and take it down to the euphorbia embers. And you put in its covering layer (takhmîr) what was put in in what was before, letter for letter.

Another Like Dish

Clean a chicken or a partridge and put in all that spoken of above, except the saffron is omitted. Put garbanzos and a head of garlic into the pot, boil the meatballs and the meat and cover the contents of the pot in that manner.