Witchbarf Potion

Every recipe says taste it. Every recipe has said taste it since the twelfth century and not one of them says what to do afterward. Newt is fine. Newt has never hurt anybody. The trouble is the eyes, which go in whole and come out whole and are, in her professional opinion, a garnish some show-off added around 1520 that nobody since has been humble enough to drop. She has raised it with the coven. The coven is fond of tradition. So twice a year she stands in her own yard giving the entire batch back to the earth, frogs and all, and the earth accepts it, and the recipe stays exactly as written.