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Mutton et al

article of diet. By being made into a jelly by balinese
digester they are are excellent aliment. These
animal substances are good for the quantity &
quality of nourishment contained in them.
The flesh of the cow is composed of gluten and
fat but less than pork. you know how much
the flesh is altered by castration, that the
bullock is tender & the bull tough. The
capon differs from the cock. Veal when just
killed is difficult of digestion, but when kept
two or three days it loses that stringy quality
which you find at table.

Mutton should not be killed before 6 or 7 years
at this age it comes to perfection. They say
that our mutton in this country is not so
good as in some parts of Europe, but we do
not attend to the perfecting it, or it would
be equal to the English or Welsh. Pork has
its fat diffused more completely throughout