This section is from the book "Facts Worth Knowing", by Robert Kemp Philip. Also available from Amazon: Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know.
Two large potatoes, passed through kitchen sieve, Unwonted softness to the salad give, Of mordent • mustard add a single spoon- Distrust the condiment which bites so soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault, To add a double quantity of salt: Three times the spoon with oil of
Lucca crown, And once with vinegar procured from town. True flavour needs it, and your poet begs, The pounded yellow of two well-boiled
Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce suspected, animate the whole: And lastly on the favoured compound toes
A magic teaspoon of anchovy sauce: Then, though green turtle fail, though venison's tough, And ham and turkey are not boiled enough, Serenely full, the epicure may say -"Fate cannot harm me - I have dined to-day."
 
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