Rats!

Boy--Roald Dahl

This is the recipe of the Liquorice Bootlaces.

Liquorice Bootlaces

Ingredients

• 10,000 rats

Tools

• Cauldron
• Long poles 
• Fire
• Water
• Wellington boots
• Steam roller

Instruction

1. The ratcatchers give the rats to the Liquorice Bootlaces factory.
2. The factory waits for 10,000 rats.
3. Dump them all into a huge shiny steel cauldron and boil them for     several hours.
4. Two men stir the bubbling cauldron with long poles in the end they have a thick steaming rat-stew.After that, a cruncher is lowered into the cauldron to crunch the bones.
5. Something called rat-mash is left in the cauldron.
6. The two men with the poles put on their wellington boots and climb into the long cauldron and shovel the hot rat-mash out on to a concrete floor.
7. They run a stem-roller over it several times to flatten it out.
8. What is left looks rather like a giant black pancake .
9. wait for it to cool and harden.
10. cut it into strips to make it like bootlaces.