. the leybourne. first edition 1954.unsigned.
“Housewives celebrate end of rationing. Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain ended at midnight when restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat and bacon were lifted.”
ingredients.
take
one fresh small person
a paper bus ticket
one pair trunks (canned if necessary)
smallish inner tube or rubber ring whichever is available
or is in season
method
place the person on the bus, allow to rest
leave for half an hour or until things are proved
gas mark 4
then
wrap person in trunks and place into the prepared ring
if fully set float in brine until all becomes spongy
allow to brown lightly while floating continues
do not peel
on rising
we have a floating island