...a pocket full of rye...

four and twenty blackbirds..

we surely need a thread devoted to nursery rhymes, don't you think?

NO! No baking of magpies, no baking of blackbirds!

Nursery rhymes rock!

Yes - no baked, fried, cooked or sauted animals here!

But the handfuls of rye are okay with me as a pie filling. Though some mixed veg would bulk it up a bit.

can we bake pigeons instead?

Urm no. How about baking a nice butternut squash instead?

doesn't quite have the same ring to it. How about baked seagull?

I think we are losing the thread a little here....

No birds shall be baked in any pie. Unless you happen to find a deceased seagull on the tide line...

Since I wrote my last post, every seagull in the vicinity has vanished. They're cleverer than we think....

How about roadkill?

Actually, after I posted I pondered the said nursery rhyme, and it seems that birds can withstand being baked in a pie?! ('when the pie was opened, the birds began to sing') Not that I'd condone anyone trying this. Must have something to do with 18th century (or earlier - see Wikipedia) cooking techniques. Hmm. They also seemed to be able to survive the cutting of the pie!

Didn't we have a smiley?

and a smiley?

Now there's a thought.

That would be quite a spectacle! If cruel.

Roadkill is fine. Be sure to wash the tyre rubber and engine oil of that 'coon before you bake it.

my gran was fed up with telling her neighbour about her loose chickens. one day, one of them (inevitably) got run over. nan dutifully pointed this out to her neighbour - SO THAT SHE COULD PICK IT UP BEFORE ANYONE ELSE DID! (this is in a Polish village btw).

waste not want not i guess...

hey everyone,
as i grew up with an english mum but away from england, i missed out on most of the nursery rhymes or rather there wasn't anything to keep them in my memory as i grew older. i have this vague memory of something "hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,..." something about a dog jumping across the moon, a cow and a spoon and having fun. anyone help me out with this... how does it go, for real?
thankeee....