Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A RECEIPT FOR STEWING VEAL, by JOHN GAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a knuckle of veal Last Line: Will it fill dean and chapter! Variant Title(s): Receipt To Make Soup; For The Use Of Dean Swift Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Mnemonics; Cookery | ||||||||
Take a knuckle of Veal (You may buy it, or steal), In a few peices cut it, In a Stewing pan put it, Salt, pepper and mace Must season this knuckle, Then what's join'd to a place, With other Herbs muckle; That which killed King Will, And what never stands still, Some sprigs of that bed Where Children are bred, Which much you will mend, if Both Spinage and Endive, And Lettuce and Beet, With Marygold meet; Put no water at all; For it maketh things small; Which, lest it should happen, A close cover clap on; Put this pot of Wood's mettle In a hot boiling kettle, And there let it be, (Mark the Doctrine I teach) About -- let me see, -- Thrice as long as you preach. So skimming the fat off, Say Grace, with your hat off O then, with what rapture Will it fill Dean and Chapter! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#47) by MARVIN BELL THE COMPOSER'S WINTER DREAM by NORMAN DUBIE THE EBONY CHICKERING by DORIANNE LAUX MY UNCLE'S FAVORITE COFFEE SHOP by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE SHORT-ORDER COOK by JIM DANIELS CURIOSITY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TROUBLE IN DE KITCHEN by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR FABLES: 1ST SER. 5. THE WILD BOAR AND THE RAM by JOHN GAY LESSER EPISTLES: TO A LADY ON HER PASSION FOR OLD CHINA by JOHN GAY |
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