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first catch your hare. Writers still attribute these humor- ous directions to a recipe in Mrs. Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cooking Made Plain and Easy (1747). What the lady really wrote was “Take your hare when it is cased and make a pud- ding . . .” To “case” a hare is to skin it. The joke, which is all the phrase was, is first recorded in Thackeray’s Rose and Ring (1855), and he used the words as if his readers would be fa- miliar with them. |