I have been aſſured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy Child well Nurſed is at a year Old a moſt delicious, nouriſhing, and wholeſome Food, whether Stewed, Roaſted, Baked, or Boyled, and I make no doubt that it will equally ſerve in a Fricaſie, or a Ragout.
I have been aſſured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy Child well Nurſed is at a year Old a moſt delicious, nouriſhing, and wholeſome Food, whether Stewed, Roaſted, Baked, or Boyled, and I make no doubt that it will equally ſerve in a Fricaſie, or a Ragout.
What year English is this?!
This is from 1729. It is Jonathan Swift’s
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick