Chap. XX Of Things Containing Good Juices
Good juices are afforded by wheat, siligo, alica, rice, starch47, tragum48, 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 wombs49, cheeks, and legs of hogs, all fat flesh, and glutinous, all livers, and a sorbile egg.