Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-05-26

oenu 10 DubnIndU, WIN Wh ~ ulinUct hiiy
distance for portion. Hips9potamus. fat, too,
is treat; when salted it is thought superior
to our best breakfast bacon. rad the flesh is both
palatable and nutritious thefat is used instead
of butter for making puddiags, and, indeed,
for all the ordinary uses Of litter, The young
tapir is like beef, and the feccary and musk
hog are both superior to tie common porker, if
care is taken to cut out tie tetid orifce in the
back. Pig-the pig for shi,h Charles Lamb
would almost dare a crime, and the immortal
Chinaman burned down his house--the pig of
our childhood, our matu,ity and our old age
has detractors and ealumnia. Is !; surely no man
who has once tasted aonifsss. saragy n..9sisss--
America is the great pork-shels Of tie universe,
not even excepting Ireland, where the pig ele-
ment is also strongly developed. n America,
they speak of picked pork by the acre, and, in
Ohio alone, they use about threequarters of
million of swine yearly. In Spain, pig is game,
lean, and highly favored, without fat or unctu-
ousncss, devoid of any capabilty for bacon, and
without rasher or cheek available for break
fast. 1t is fondly thought that sausages come
from this member of the pachydermatous fami-
ly; but sausages are deceptive, and sometimes
CONTAIN as much horse flesh and donkey flesh as
their more legimatc basis Mr. Richardson of
Manchester gave evidence in Mr.. Sohoolfeld's
Committee, to the effect that horse flesh is mixed
with pottcd meats, and enters largely into the
composition of collared Drawn, sausages, and
polonies and that, indeed, it is of material
use in these preparations, as, being harder and
more fbrous than pork, it binds together the
whole, which else would be inclined to run to
waste and water
Birds arc of large Importance in the supplies
of human food and not only birds, but birds
nests as well--at least with the Chinese, whose
dainties are always peculiar. These nests are
brought from Java and Sumatra, the gathering
taking place thrice in the year, and being in
augurnted by solemn ceremonies. The nests
are like fbrous, ill-concocted isinglass, inclln.
ing to red, about the size of gooseis egg, and
as thick as silver spoon. They hang upon
the rocks like (accordng to Mr.. Albert Smith)
watch-pockets. When dry they are brittle and
wrinkled, and are sold for twice their weight in
silver. The best are the whitest and cleanest
but even with these there is enormous labor in
preparing them for the Chinese market, the end
and aim of the trade being soup with these
nests floating about like Jumps of soft, mucil-
aginous jelly. This nest, which Is Of the sea-
swallow. (Hrundo esculens7s,l J is the only edible
one known. Many are the delicious morsels
afforded by birds. The beccafco in the fig sea-
son; the bronze-winged pigeon bf Australia
when the acacia seeds are ripe; the young, fat,
hidcous diaboltin or goat-sucker, if taken when
q tender nesting, and the same bird, when
Older, if taken when the ralm-trees are in fruit;
the rice busting OF South Carolina, when the
rice is ripening in the field; and the ortolan,
mere lump of idealised fat as it iS-these are
among the most celebrated of the smaller tit
bits not forgetting the snpes and woodcocks of
our own land.
Some people eat insects. The grub of the
palm weeyil, about the size Of ones thumb, is
much favored in the East and West Indies;
and the grubs of most beetles flnd their admir-
ers and an esophagal tomb IN some or other
quarter of the globe. Locusts are substitute
for grain with the Arabs, and arc ground up
into II kind of bread beside being salted, smok'
cd. and plainly boiled or roasted. The Moors
think fine fat locust superior even to pigeon.
and the Iottentots make a colee-colored soup
Of their eggs. Grass-hoppers and ecadcs are
also eaten ; and, indeed, the problem seems to be
to find any living thing which docs not pass
through the furnace for the benefit of some ones
bill of fare. The white ants-tcrmtes-a
said to be good eating SO are ants generally,
givinga pleasant acid to the preparation, what
ever 1T may be. They are distilled with rye in
Sweden for the purpose of 1avorng inferior
brandy. The grub, or larve, of the termites,
is like the most delicious bit of cream; but the
luscousness of large, white, fat maggot,
precious to the Australian native, is said to be
without compare. Stupid native he devours
the grubs of the most valuable and the rarest
moths and butterflies; and certain species are
almost extinct, in the plumed state, because the
thirsty, parched, meteorological black seizes
on that bit of living matrs-sstsss grub, wherev-
er he finds it. The thrifty Chinese first wind
off the cocoon, then send the chrysalis Of the
silk-worm to the table. 1t lisa pleasant adjunct
in feast where half-hatched eggs, sea-slugs,
rats, frogs and dogs are the principal dainties.
Spiders are delcacies of the dessert kind to the
Bushman, and Lalande and Anna Maria Schur-
man used to eat them like nuts, which it is said
they resemble. Snals have their partisans,
and Murilos Seville boy ate a snail pie while
he was being painted. Even we rear certain
large white race, which we sell in Covent Gar
den, to be made into soup and Jelly for the con-
sumptve, who believe them to be almost n
f specific for that complaint. The Chinese gloat
f over sea slug, or beche de mer, and dish of o
certain sea-worm is one Of the events of life to
the dwolers in the Islands Of the Southern Pa
| cifc. The people of Chill eat barnaces as we
' eat whelks; the Hottentots devour handfuls oil
j leasted caterpillars, which taste like sugared
] cream or almond paste, and stand to them in
c the place Of sugar plums and comfts. What a
e blessing it would be if we 'ould persuade our
f rising population to exchape daft and mineral
;, colored lozenges f'r nice young harmless cater
is pillars roasted in the ashes Think how the
), farmers would gain by the exchange House
hold uords.
YANKEE editor says tht he liked to die
lar6n, to see q drunkin nap tryin' to pocket
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