A young couple's marriage was suffering from her inability to cook. Things really got bad the night that the husband fished a piece of paper out of his stew.

He unfolded the paper and read, "Nobly, nobly Cape St. Vincent to the North-west died away."

Waving the soggy scrap, he demanded, "What on earth is this?!"

"Well," the young wife replied, "the recipe said that if the stew was too thin I should add some Browning."