Episode Synopsis "A Poem"

Sydney Smith wrote a recipe for salad dressing: Two boiled potatoes, strained through a kitchen sieve, Softness and smoothness to the salad give; Of mordant mustard take a single spoon — Distrust the condiment that bites too soon; Yet deem it not, thou man of taste, 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 taste requires it, and your poet begs The pounded yellow of two well-boiled eggs. Let onions’ atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce suspected, animate the whole; And...

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