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Text in image: A recipe for open-faced sandwich made by Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi:
Remove the top crust and edges of a whole bread. Spread its face with binn al-sakarij, slather it with walnut oil, and put it on a brazier until it is thoroughly heated. Spread yolk of soft-cooked eggs on top of the binn and eat it. You may sprinkle it with pounded cheese, which will make it even more delicious.
Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi has a poem describing this sandwich:
What a delicious sandwich on the brazier I made, slathered with binn and walnut oil.
Fragrant and shining, as if the binn I used with ambergris and musk embalmed.
Of nigella seeds I put what it needed, as for fennel, I did sprinkle some.

Text continues: Olive oil I made sure to add, for it gives a luscious coating and a saffroned glow. (36v) Smeared with egg yolk, with cheese sprinkled, like speckled em- broidered silk. As colorful as striped silk it looks, exuding musk and camphor. The taste, luscious as pure honey, for the best aromatic spices I did use.

from the Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh (Book of Cookery) written by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq in the 10th century

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