. 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