Two old settlers, confirmed bachelors, sat in the backwoods. The conversation drifted from politics to cooking. "I got one o’ them there cookery books once, but I never could do nothing with it,” said one. "Too much fancy work in it?” asked the other. "You've hit it. Every one of them recipes began in the same way. ‘Take a clean dish—' and that settled me.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1939, Page 9
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