Sneaky Pie's Cookbook For Mystery Lovers

Dog/Human

DEVILED EGGS

Makes 1 dozen

6 hard-boiled eggs, peeled

¼ cup mayonnaise

1 tablespoon yellow mustard

1 tablespoon cider vinegar

1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish (optional)

salt and pepper

Paprika

Slice the hard-boiled eggs in half lengthwise.

Remove the yolks and place in a small bowl.

Add to the yolks the mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, and pickle relish, if using. Stir until thoroughly mixed and fluffy-looking.

Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Pipe or spoon the mixture into the egg white halves.

Dust lightly with paprika.

Refrigerate and serve cold.

SOME CATS LIKE a raw egg mixed into their commercial food. I am not one of them. Pewter craves eggs no matter how they are served.

Many dogs will eat an egg on the spot, smashing the shell.

I once saw Mom use an egg to train a horse. The mare, four years old, would “get light in the front” when she didn’t do whatever you asked her to do. That means the front two legs come off the ground a bit. It’s not the worst of sins but she’d discovered that this scared people.

Mother wanted her to walk over a log, that’s all, walk over. Maybe the mare decided the log was going to bite her or maybe she was just plain lazy. I don’t know. The first time she went up, Mom was ready with an egg in her hand. She rose up in her stirrups and smacked the egg right between the horse’s ears. Well, that stunned the horse, who stood stone still. And from then on she would walk over that log when asked to.

This proves that horses are dumb.

Mother always takes up for the horses. She says they are grass eaters and their brains are organized differently than ours because humans and dogs and cats think like predators. I still think they’re slow in the head.