Showing posts with label Jeeves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeeves. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
TOP O' THE MORNIN' AFTER
I realise it's unlikely (knowing the type of reader who visits this blog) but just in case you happened to have celebrated St Patrick's Day a tad too enthusiastically, here are few hangover cures...
As recommended by the Ancient Assyrians...
From the prescription pad of a Medieval European doctor...
As recommended by the Ancient Assyrians...
A mixture of ground birds' beaks and myrrh
From the prescription pad of a Medieval European doctor...
Raw eel and bitter almonds
Or there's the Mongolian pick-you-up...
Pickled sheep's eyes
One cure that comes highly recommended - at least by one Bertram Wooster - is the restorative administered by the incomparable Jeeves in P G Wodehouse's first story about him, 'Jeeves Takes Charge'...
As Jeeves explains...
"It is the Worcester sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening."
Or you could stick with the hair of the dog and pour yourself another Guinness with a Jameson chaser...
Raw egg, Worcester sauce, and red pepper
As Jeeves explains..."It is the Worcester sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening."
Or you could stick with the hair of the dog and pour yourself another Guinness with a Jameson chaser...
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