1 qt. milk human kindness
8 reasons:
War
White Slavery
Child Labor
8,000,000 Working Women
Bad Roads
Poisonous Water
Impure Food
Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust. Upper crusts must be handled with extreme care, for they quickly sour if manipulated roughly.
From the 1915 The Suffrage Cook Book, as related in a lovely article on The Salt.
Casual racism notwithstanding, I love the idea of this playful, acerbic cookbook, which subverts the form of domestic literature (has domestic literature ever been anything but a subversion?) and pushes the boundaries of the "female" sphere of influence.
Note, too, the pleasingly contemporary recipe for "Anti's Favorite Hash"--"Hater's Hash," I submit for the modern age--"a generous handful of injustice, a pound of truth thoroughly mangled, a little vitriol for tang, and a string of nonsense to be stirred with a sharp knife."
Bon appetit!