ALICE B. TOKLAS BROWNIES (aka ALICE BE TOKIN' BROWNIES)

Alice B. Toklas included the following introduction and recipe for "Haschich Fudge" in her 1954 "Alice B. Toklas Cook Book":

"This is the food of Paradise.... it might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR.... Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better."
                
1 tsp. black peppercorns
1 whole nutmeg
4 sticks cinnamon
1 tsp. coriander
1 handful stone dates
1 handful dried figs
1 handful shelled almonds
1 handful peanuts
A bunch of cannabis sativa ("picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green")
1 cup sugar
1 large pat of butter

Grind the pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, and coriander in a mortar. Chop and mix the dates, figs, almonds, and peanuts. Grind the cannabis and mix it with the spices; dust this mixture over the fruits and nuts. Mix the sugar with the butter and knead this together with the fruits, nuts, spices, and cannabis. Eat with care - two pieces are quite sufficient.