A rhyming recipe is a recipe expressed in the form of a rhyming poem. Now mainly a curiosity, rhyming recipes were a common expedient for homemakers to memorize recipes in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Famous quotes containing the words rhyming and/or recipe:
“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
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