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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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Then they stir and rowl it in the Pot with their hands: by which means it crumbles into corns like Gun-Powder.

Then they have a Pot of boyling water with a cloth tyed over it; and upon this cloth they lay so much of this corn flower as they can conveniently cover with another Pot.

And so the steam coming through the cloth boils it, that it will be much like unto a Pudding.

And this they use to eat as they do Rice.
[The Womens Houswifry.] The womens Housewifry is to beat the Rice out of the husk; which they do with an Ebeny Pestle before mentioned.

They lay the Rice on the ground, and then beat it, one blow with one hand, and then tossing the Pestle into the other, to strike with that.


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