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Poetic Recipe for Salad

The Rev. Sydney is sprinkled over, about 6 large tablespoon- Smith's recipe. "Two large potatoes, pass'd through kitchen sieve, Smoothness and softness to the salad give:

Of mordant mustard add a single spoon, Distrust the condiment that bites too soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault, To add a double quantity of salt:

Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And twice with vinegar procured from 'town;' True flavour needs it, and your poet begs, The pounded yellow of two well-boil'd eggs.

Let onion's atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce suspected, animate the whole And, lastly, in the flavour'd compound toss A magic spoonful of anchovy sauce.

Oh! great and glorious and herbaceous treat, 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat.

Back to the world he'd turn his weary soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad-bowl."