Show 8 MEALS the mexican mican 11 monarchy variety of savory dillies DiR lies from froni hubert howe hie ilia lory tory of tile pacific 1 states the bill of faje fw of tho the mexican king comp comprised everything edible of fish fowl and flesh that could be procured in the empire or coi could ald be imported from beyond it there were ivere cunning couke cooks among the az lz becs and at these extravagant meala meals there was almost as its much variety in the cook cooking in iii in the matter cooked T b Sa sahagun bagun give gives a 3 most must formidable liatos lut of roast atelea I 1 nad boiled dishes of meat went fuh ant an poultry tea fea with many kinds of haciba ho ile further describe describes ma many ny kinds of f bread all bearing a moro more or lee less c lose resemblance to the modern tortilla and all most tremendously named Ima imagine gille for instance when one wished for a piece of bread having to ask one ones neighbor to be enough to pass the ahen beu there were females tamales of all kinds and many other curious messes such as frog spawn 8 wn and stewed ante cooked aith ith chile but more loathsome to us than even euch such ils as these and stra strangest 5 t of all sill the tho strange compounds coma corna PU P U a that went to anike tn ike up the royal bill of fare are w wes oae highly seasoned and p gue y I 1 savory smelling diah dish a exquisitely prepared that its principal ingredient was completely disguised yet that ingredient was nothing else ehe than human flesh each eich dish was kept warm by a chafing adith placed under it do not agree as the exact quantity of food served up at each meal but it must have been immense since the lowest number of orf dishes given is three bundred hundred and the highest number is three thousand they were yere brought into the hall ball by four hundred pages of noble birth who placed p soad their burdens upon the matted floor and retired T the lie king then pointed out euch such viand as s he wished to partake of or led left the selection to tok b his is steward who d matless took pains to at study idy the likes and dislikes of the tile royal palate this steward was a functionary of tf tha the lank tank and importance lie ile alone was privileged to place tho tile designated designate i delicacies elic acks beford i the king upon the table ho he appears to t haye have done lone duty both as royal carver and cup bear er and to to have done it and on hie bis knells J being in readi ure a number of the roost most beautiful of the kings women en bearing water sell called xi nicales xie alet cales for the king to wash his hands in and towels that he might dri dry them other vessels being placed place upon ground to catch the drippings droppings drip pings two other women at the same time brought bim him some loave loaves of afu ofu a very delicate kind of bread made of maiza flower beaten up with rags this donea done a w wooden CA carved arved and gilt wa was placed before him hini that no a one might see him while eating there were always present five or eix aged aed lords who stood tood near the be royal chair bare barefooted rooted and with bowed heads to as a spec lil al mark of J favor avor tha the king occa signally tio sio nally sent a ch ice eurael arsel from liis his on own plater plate during denu the meal the monarch emet inies agnue amused d himself br ids m uie the performance of hie bie jugglers and arld tumble rd whose marvelous feat i of strength and dexterity astonished aston abed the spaniard arde at other times there wa dan dancing id i d by and music there wera were alao also professional jesters who ho were till owed to peak a privilege denied all othen under poi penalty alty ot of death and d after the tile mati manner fier ot of their kind ad to tell harp sharp truths in the shape of jesle jests the more solid food wa waa followed by pastry sw sweet act meats and a magnificent desert of fruit the only beverage drank at the meal was chocolate of which about sixty jar jars were provided it t was taken wl with th 1 a 8 nuel nobly y wrought of god or shell from a goblet of the ame tile material mal crial having finished his hi dinner the he king again washed his hands in wain lo him as before by the nomen women after this beveral painted and gilt pipes were yme brought from which be he inhaled through his hi mouth or orno nose ac as cited him hill bojt the muk ejof a mixture of lignite amber and an herb which rays the historian bernal diaz they call tobacco |