A cucumber stuffed with barley to attract flies

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Curious Cookbook: Viper Soup, Badger Ham, Stewed Sparrows and 100 More Historic Recipes

By Peter Ross

Published 2012

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Method

To Keep Flies off your Paintings and Hangings

An Italian conceipte both for the rareness and use thereof doth please me above all other: viz: pricke a cowcumber full of barley corns with the small spring ends outwards, make little hole