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]Of sugar two tablespoons, heaping—
(All spoons should be heaping, says Neal);
Then mix it with strokes that are sweeping,
And stir like the Deil.
Three eggs. (Tho’ the missus may sputter,
You’ll pay to her protest no heed.)
A size-of-an-egg piece of butter,
And milk as you happen to need.
Now mix the whole mess with a beater;
Don’t get it too thick or too thin.