... beans like horsebeans soaked and boiled as opposed to the "Ful Mudammas" (esp. of Egypt)unshelled beans steamed and boiled all night and eaten with linseed oil as "kitchen" or relish. Lane (M.E., chaps. v.) calls them after the debased Cairene pronunciation, Mudemmes. A legend says that, before the days of Pharaoh (always he of Moses), the ... — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton