aphrodisiac cookery

from aphrodisiac cookery: 

mossi love recipe

take one cockroach, one salamander, and a piece of cotton that has dried a penis after intercourse. dry and mix well. conceal in a loved one's food.

wowsers

and it gets better! at the back of the book, i kid you not, i found this:

would you oil of blossoms get?
take it from my julia's sweat:
oil of lilies and of spike,
from her moisture take the like:
let her breathe or let her blow,
all rich spices thence will flow


-robert herrick (a pungent tribute to his truelove's essence)