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It is said that it is made by putting milk into an earthen jar, and letting it stand for a day. The taste is not unlike that of butter-milk; the Arabs say, "It makes a sick man well. " Robinson was also treated to a similar diet in camp: "A large bowl of lehen (sour milk) was already pre- pared for our breakfast; but as we were neither hungry nor thirsty, we left it to our attendants, by whom it was greedily devoured. " Although butter made from churning cream is not unknown to Orientals, proba...bly the "butter" often men- tioned in the Old Testament is this lehen, for in another passage, the drink offered to Sisera is called "milk. " ' So, also, "butter 'Ruth a : 14. ' t Sam. 25 : 18. * Modern Ep. Yplians, I. , 243. 'Num. II : 5. 'Jud^. 5 : 25. • Judg. 4 : 19. 96 ORIENTALISMS IN BIBLE LANDS. of Idne, and milk of sheep " may designate a similar prepara- tion.^ 130. Butter. — Buckingham tells of the way he saw Arab tribes make butter. "The milk is placed in a goat's skin, which is filled as full as possible, and then tied to the mouth ; after which it is rolled or shaken on the ground, by a woman who sits before it, this operation continuing for several hours on each skin, till butter is formed from the milk, when the bag or skin is untied, and the two parts separated from each other.
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