Brownies

[xoxoxoBruce]

Brownies

•Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks
of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a
mortar.
•About a handful each of stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and
peanuts: chop these and mix them together.
•A bunch of cannabis sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices
should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together.
•About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and
cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be
eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.

Alice B Toklas—dignified as can be—reading the recipe aloud on Pacifica Radio in 1963. She reads the above and then tells the interviewer:
The recipe was innocently included without my realizing that the hashish was the accented part of the recipe, and then I was shocked to find that America wouldn’t accept it, because it was too dangerous.

Well this was an offense to the American eye and American thought because they were afraid they were up against the law. And so my publisher wired to Washington and asked the administration if it were possible to use such a recipe. And he got as an answer from Washington: “you can do anything you please except eat it. That is forbidden by law. You may grow it, you may manufacture it, but you may not sell it, you may not eat it.”

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