Anemones

Ingredients

Anemones, dung of asses, paper, gum arabic, gallnut, white of the egg, water of sorrel

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

Anemones (shaqa'iq) are stuffed into thin vessels (qawarir diqaq) and buried in ass dung to undergo spontaneous oxidation and dissolution (p. 17). Burned paper sheets are then gathered and mixed with this liquid. This mixture is dried in the shade. Finally, one dirham of this substance is combined with a dirham of gum arabic and a half-dirham of pulverized gallnut, bound with egg white into a ball. When needed, it is dissolved in water of sorrel (silq) (p. 17).

Evidence

"Anemones are taken and stuffed into thin vessels and buried in the dung of asses until melted, watery, and dissolved."

Remarks

This recipe utilizes 'qawarir diqaq', thin-walled vessels designed to conduct the low heat generated by the decomposing dung to the anemone solution (p. 17).