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Birdsnest Pudding

For the inside take ten ounces of first quality white Chinese edible, glutinous birdsnests. They must be taken from the coast rocks on the day they are finished building, before they become soiled. Three ounces of the purple gelatinous moss from Sumatra. Twelve eggs of the golden turtle of Samarcand. Two wine glasses of the liqueur called Tears of the widow of Malabar. For the outside or casing cut thin shavings of the ripe fruit of the Malayan bread-fruit tree; soak them a few hours in the clarified oil of fat puppy and-- What, don't want it? "Nay, then indeed I am unblest"--why not? O, here is a regular Wilkie Collins of a plot. Some one has opened the book at the wrong page, and that was not it at all.