Regarding Content: The text copy is from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887): The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann. This book is part of Project Gutenberg and is in the public domain in the USA.
Selected because the cookbook had 20 recipes dedicated to making "toast" that were very humorous.
Body text source: The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887): The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home. by F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann, Project Gutenberg. Accessed December 2, 2017. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13923