Chef at 20:05, 30 December 2021

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: Sing a song of sixpence,

: a pocket full of rye.

: Four and twenty blackbirds,

: baked in a pie.

: When the pie was opened,

: the birds began to sing.

: Wasn't that a dainty dish

: to set before the king?

: The king was in his counting house,

: counting out his money.

: The queen was in the parlour,

: eating bread and honey.

: The maid was in the garden,

: hanging out the clothes,

: When down came a blackbird

: and pecked off her nose!

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, an Italian cookbook from 1549 (translated into English in 1598) actually contains a recipe "to make pies so that birds may be alive in them and flie out when it is cut up." The ODNR also cites a 1723 cook who describes this as an earlier practice, the idea being that the birds cause "a diverting Hurley-Burley amongst the Guests."

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Chef at 20:05, 30 December 2021