Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1910 — OLD ENGLISH COOKERY. [ARTICLE]

OLD ENGLISH COOKERY.

A Lively Feast with Much Delight and Pleasure. A study of Robert May’s “Accomplisht Cook,” published in 1865, will serve to dispel the delusion fostered by many foreign critics that English cookery lacks variety. One of May’j recipes Is for the construction of a ship of confectionery, with guns charged With actual powder, and a castle of pies, containing live frogs and birds. After giving directions as to the firing of the guns he proceeds: “This done, to sweeten the stink of the powder let the ladles take the eggshells full of sweet waters and throw them at each other. All danger being seemingly over, by this time you may suppose they will desire to see what is in the pyes; when, lifting first the lid off one pye, out skip some frogs, which makes the ladles to skip and shriek; next after the. other pye, whence come out the birds who, by a natural instinct, flying ffi the light will put out the candles; so that, what with the flying birds and skipping frogs, the one above, the other beneath, will cause much delight and pleasure to the whole company.”—London Chronicle.