Hangover cures #3 – The Jeeves pick-me-up, aka the Prairie Oyster
Ingredients: Raw egg x1 Worcester Sauce Tabasco/Hot sauce (Maybe Cognac – we’ll get to that) It’s popular for waggy literary types (like me, I suppose, but waggier) to say knowingly that P.G. Wodehouse books should be prescribed as an anti-depressant on the National Health Service of every country – and I can see some merit in the argument. READ MORE: HANGOVER CURES #2 – D.R. HENDERSON (FERGUS HENDERSON) I mean, look at this passage from Jeeves Takes Charge , in which Edwin the Boy Scout insists on tidying Bertie Wooster’s room – wherein he’s hidden the defamatory works of his Uncle Willoughby – and tell me it’s not pure molten honey crushed up with a Xanax, rendered in word form: "I shouldn't bother about tidying the room," I said. "I like tidying it. It's not a bit of trouble really." "But it's quite tidy now." "Not so tidy as I shall make it." This was getting perfectly rotten. I didn't want to murder the kid, and yet there di...
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