Instructions: Cook chicken with salted meat. When it is half cooked, put seeded grapes in the pot. Throw in parsley and a pinch of mint. Crush together pepper and saffron.

Put all the ingredients in the pot when the chicken is cooked and serve immediately. Platina says: "There is nothing more healthful than this food, which Poggio frequently eats when I have been invited. It is nourishing, easily cooked, agrees with the stomach, heart, liver, kidneys and checks the bile."

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