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Collect faggots of wood for Guy Fawkes Day bonfire, England
It’s also a day to make gingerbread and ‘Plot Toffee’.
A stick and a stake For King George's sake
Will you please to give us a faggot
If you won't give one, we’ll steal two
The better for we and the worse for you.
Warwickshire rhyme
To make Gingerbread: Take Claret-wine, and put in sugar, and set it to the fire; then take wheat bread finely grated and sifted, and Liquorice, Anniseeds, Ginger and Cinnamon beaten very small into powder. Mix your bread and your spice together, put them into the wine, and boil it, and stir it until it be very thick. Then mould it and print it at your pleasure, and let it stand in a place neither too moist nor too warm.
Markham, The English Housewife, 1683
Collect faggots of wood for Guy Fawkes Day bonfire, England
It’s also a day to make gingerbread and ‘Plot Toffee’.
A stick and a stake For King George's sake
Will you please to give us a faggot
If you won't give one, we’ll steal two
The better for we and the worse for you.
Warwickshire rhyme
To make Gingerbread: Take Claret-wine, and put in sugar, and set it to the fire; then take wheat bread finely grated and sifted, and Liquorice, Anniseeds, Ginger and Cinnamon beaten very small into powder. Mix your bread and your spice together, put them into the wine, and boil it, and stir it until it be very thick. Then mould it and print it at your pleasure, and let it stand in a place neither too moist nor too warm.
Markham, The English Housewife, 1683
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