New Fudge Recipe! - History, Notes, and Commentary
Hashich Fudge
(which anyone can whip up on a rainy day)
This is the food of Paradise - of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises: it might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies’ Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR. In Morocco it is thought to be good for warding off the common cold in damp winter weather and is, indeed, more effective if take with large quantities of hot mint tea. Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one’s personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by ‘un evanouissement reveille.’
Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almond and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of canibus sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.
Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties, but the variety knows as canibus sativa grows as a common weed, often unrecognized, everywhere in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for the manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin canibus indica, has been observed even in city window boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green.
Mrs. Joseph A. Barry
New York and Paris
Tolklas, Alice B., The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, Double Day and Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1960, Page 273-274
This book looks rather old and plain, but something about it drew me in. With a Picasso drawing on the front, which I thought a bit odd and the back cover talks much about Gertrude Stein and the various artists she hung out with. Of course I opened it and this is the first recipe that caught my eye. I started laughing. Gertrude Stein? There seemed to be something of my Gaydar ringing out after reading the back cover. I knew the name and then with the magic touch of wikipedia.com had a quick answer. Lesbian much?