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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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mnants, distributesthem amongst the poor and the hungry, although he shouldhimself want on the morrow. We had brought a supply of flour with us, and the Jebourshad a little wheat raised on the banks of the river. Thewandering Arabs have no other means of grinding their cornthan by handmills, which they carry with them whereverthey go. They are always worked by the women, for it is 128 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. considered unwortliy of a man to engage in any domesticoccupation. These handmills are simply two circular flat stones, gene-rally about eighteen inches in diameter, the upper turningloosely upon a wooden pivot, and moved quickly round by awooden handle. The grain is passed through the hole ofthe pivot, and the flour is collected in a cloth spread underthe mill. It is then mixed with water, kneaded in a woodenbowl, and pressed by the hand into round balls ready forbaking. During these processes, the women are usuallyseated on the bare ground: hence, in Isaiah,* is the daughter
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Arab Women grinding Corn with a Hand-mill, rolling out the Dough, and bakingthe Bread. of Babylon told to sit in the dust and on the ground, and to take the millstones to grind meal. The tribes, who are always moving from place to place,bake their bread on a slightly convex iron plate, called asadj., moderately heated over a low fire of brushwood orcamels dung. The lumps of dough are rolled, on a woodenplatter, into thin cakes, a foot or more in diameter, and laidl)y means of the roller upon the iron. They are baked in a * Chap, xlvii. I, 2. v.) MAKING AND BAKING OF BREAD. 129 very short time, and should be eaten hot. * The Kurds,whose flour is far whiter and more carefully prepared thanthat of the Arabs, roll the dough into larger cakes, scarcelythicker than a sheet of paper. When carefully baked by thesame process, it becomes crisp, and is exceedingly agreeableto the taste. The Arab tribes that remain for many days inone place, make rude ovens by digging a hole in the groundabout th

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