Rhymes for the Kitchen.
Observer, Volume X, Issue 617, 25 October 1890, Page 9
Rhymes for the Kitchen.
Always have lobster sauce with salmon, And put mint sauce your roasted la cab on. In dressing salad, mind this law : With two hard yolks use one that's raw. Roast veal with rioh stock gravy serve, And pickled mushrooms, too, observe. Roast pork, sans apple sauce, past doubt, Is ' Hamlet' with fcho priuce left out. Your mutton chops with paper cover, And make them amber brown all over. Broil lightly your beefsteak — to fry it Argues contempt of Christian diet. To roast spring chickens is to spoil 'em. Just split 'em down the back and broil 'em. It gives true epicures the vapours To see boiled mutton minus capers. But one might rhyme for weaks this way, And still have lots of things to say. And so I'll close, for, reader mine, This is about the hour I dine.