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From: andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Looking for an old recipe...
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 20:41:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 20:41:23 1983
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The following recipe is taken from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Cookery."
 

			TO MAKE GOSKY PATTIES

    Take a Pig, three or four years of age, and tie him by the off hind
leg to a post.  Place 5 pounds of currants, 3 of sugar, 2 pecks of peas,
18 roast chestnuts, a candle, and 6 bushels of turnips, within his reach;
if he eats these, constantly provide him with more.

    Then procure some cream, some slices of Cheshire cheese, four quires
of foolscap paper, and a packet of black pins.  Work the whole into a
paste, and spread it out to dry on a sheet of clean brown waterproof linen.

    When the paste is perfectly dry, but not before, proceed to beat the
Pig violently, with the handle of a large broom.  If he squeals, beat him
again.
 
    Visit the paste and beat the Pig alternately for some days, and 
ascertain if at the end of that period the whole is about to turn into
Gosky Patties.

    If it does not then, it never will; and in that case the Pig may be
let loose, and the whole process may be considered as finished.

-- 
				Andy Behrens
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