(Photo: Luttrell Psalter, British Library)
The Viviender is a Fifteenth Century book written in Middle French. It contains 60 recipies as well as household tips and medical advice. One of the recipies is ideal for Thanksgiving dinner. Fill a cooked chicken with mercury, sulfur and hot air, then bind both ends. The bird will appear to sing when you loosen the bounds:
To make that Chicken Sing when it is dead and roasted, whether on the spit or in the platter. Take the neck of your chicken and bind it at one end and fill it with quicksilver and ground sulphur, filling until it is roughly half full; then bind the other end, but not too tightly. When you want it to sing, [heat] your neck or chicken. When it is quite hot, and when the mixture heats up, the air that is trying to escape will make the chicken's sound. The same can be done with a gosling, with a piglet and with any other birds. And if it doesn't cry loudly enough, tie the two ends more tightly.
Comments (6)
but.. dont, *please* DONT feed your cat tuna!!
it has a lot of added salt, witch we humans like and can digest..
but it WILL destroy our lovely pet's kidneys in the long run...
fact; salt + cat = slow horrible DEATH
Pass...
a more purrr-fect pet U won't find
what kind of engineers are they? Not using the metric system *scoff*.....lol
great video!!!
I too have cats and can relate-although not groovin on the spinning of the cats- not good for them at all, and the tuna thing although they love it, not good for them either. Other than that....A+!
and on the other side, i could easily say that cat owners who smoke are slowly killing their felines, too. and owners who let their cats outside because they have that much more of a chance to get hit by a car or run away. and the food that they eat has antibiotic residues and such as allowed by the FDA. so really, we're all slowly killing our pets anyway.