Poetry C2

“The Preamble to The Canterbury Tales” (modern English excerpt)

Geofrey Chaucer

When fair April with his showers sweet,
Has pierced the drought of March to the root's feet
And bathed each vein in liquid of such power,
Its strength creates the newly springing flower;

When the West Wind too, with his sweet breath,
Has breathed new life - in every copse and heath -
Into each tender shoot, and the young sun
From Aries moves to Taurus on his run,
And those small birds begin their melody,
(The ones who 'sleep` all night with open eye,)
Then nature stirs them up to such a pitch
That folk all long to go on pilgrimage

And wandering travellers tread new shores, strange strands,
Seek out far shrines, renowned in many lands,
And specially from every shire's end
Of England to Canterbury they wend
The holy blessed martyr there to seek,
Who has brought health to them when they were sick.

It happened in that season that one day
In Southwark, at the Tabard, where I lay
Ready to travel to that holy site -
To Canterbury, with my spirits bright,
There came at evening to that hostelry
A group of twenty-nine, a company
Of various folk, to new found friendship come
By happy chance - and pilgrims every one
That for the Canterbury shrine were bound.

The bedrooms and the stables were well found.
There for our comfort was none but the best.
And briefly, when the sun had sunk to rest,
Since I spoke to them all in a friendly way,
I was quite soon 'one of the crowd` you might say.
We planned next day to be ready to go
At first light; to where, you already know.

“All the World's a Stage”

William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Pumpkin Pie (from Eagle Brand)

2 cups of cooked pumpkin

2 cups of sweetened condensed milk

2 eggs

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground ginger

½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

½ teaspoon salt

1 unbaked pie crust (any recipe, or store-bought)

1. Preheat the oven to 220' C.

2. Press the crust into a pie pan.

3. Beat all the other ingredients together until smooth. Pour them into the crust.

4. Bake the pie for 15 minutes.

5. Reduce the oven temperature to 175' C and bake the pie another 35-40 minutes. The pie is done when a knife stuck 1inch away from the crust comes out clean.

6. Let the pie cool. Cover the pie and store it in the refrigerator.

US Southern Biscuits
Recipe from Alton Brown

4 cups flour

8 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 ½ teaspoons salt

8 tablespoons butter

2 cups cold milk

2 teaspoons vinegar

1. Preheat the oven to 230’ C.

2. Mix the milk and the vinegar and leave it while you do Step 3.

3. Put flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. Use your fingers to rub the butter into the flour mix until the mixture looks like crumbs (do this as quickly as possible so the butter doesn’t melt).

4. Make a hole in the center of the mix and pour in the chilled milk with vinegar. Stir until a dough forms. It will be very sticky.

5. Sprinkle some flour on the counter. Put the dough on the counter, sprinkle it with a little flour, and fold the dough over on itself 5 or 6 times as if you’re folding a letter.

6. Press the dough into a circle that is two centimeters thick. Use a five-centimeter-wide cup or cookie cutter to cut biscuits out of the dough. Be sure to press straight down through the dough.

7. Put biscuits on a baking sheet so that they touch each other just a little bit.

8. Take the leftover dough, make another two-centimeter-thick circle, and cut more biscuits. Keep doing this until the dough is gone.

9. Bake the biscuits until they are tall and light gold on top, 15-20 minutes.

English Scone Recipe

2 ½ cups flour

4 ½ teaspoons baking powder

1 ¼ teaspoon salt, plus a pinch extra

8 tablespoons butter

4 tablespoons sugar

1 cup milk

2 eggs, beaten

1. Preheat the oven to 220’ C. Lightly grease a baking sheet.

2. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Use your fingertips to rub the butter in until the mixture looks like crumbs.

3. Stir in the sugar and milk and make a soft dough.

4. Sprinkle some flour on the counter, put the dough on it, and knead it a little.

5. Take some of the dough and press it out into a circle 25 cm wide and 2 cm thick.

6. Cut the circle into 8 triangles and put them on the baking sheet.

7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 until the dough is gone.

8. Paint the tops of the scones with the beaten egg. Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until scones are golden.

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