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Dear Nelly, learn with Care the Pastry Art,
And mind the Easy Precepts I impart:
Draw out your Dough elaborately thin,
And cease not to fatigue your Rolling-Pin:
Of Eggs and Butter see you mix enough:
For then the Paste will swell into a Puff,
Which will in crumpling Sounds your Praise report,
And eat, as Housewives speak, exceeding short.
Rang'd in thick Order, let your Quinces lie;
They give a charming Relish to the Pye.
If you are wise, you'll not Brown Sugar slight,
The Browner (if I form my Judgment right)
A deep Vermillion Tincture will dispence,
And make your Piffin redder than the Quince.
And mind the Easy Precepts I impart:
Draw out your Dough elaborately thin,
And cease not to fatigue your Rolling-Pin:
Of Eggs and Butter see you mix enough:
For then the Paste will swell into a Puff,
Which will in crumpling Sounds your Praise report,
And eat, as Housewives speak, exceeding short.
Rang'd in thick Order, let your Quinces lie;
They give a charming Relish to the Pye.
If you are wise, you'll not Brown Sugar slight,
The Browner (if I form my Judgment right)
A deep Vermillion Tincture will dispence,
And make your Piffin redder than the Quince.
When
