Cucumber and Gin Popsicles

She was a bookworm of the most finicky kind reading every day with a book always in reach at the thrifty store the books were all consigned she rebuffed discriminately with slow impeach and rebuked all books that weren't a food find She ravaged books about cakes & pate de foie gras buttered tarts, angel hair, and little canape things books about how to bake fish and how to fry bass like a true galloping gourmet she would bring the recipes home, then make them sing... When winter came she'd sit like a chow hound and copy recipes into her little red book feeling lucky for the precious books she found Pillaging the remnants with eyes sharp as a rook she made the kitchen her haven, and fair ground Her recipe for lava chocolate soufflé had charm and her English toffee lollies were never fickle she bought her eggs fresh from the dairy farm and when she made cucumber and gin popsicles, you could lick to hearts content they do no harm . March 12, 2019 Contest Name: The Book Worm Sponsor: Kai Michael Neumann