The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-04
FRUIT, CAME, FISH,, WINE.
In All But the Latter America Sur
passes in Quantity and
Quality.
Great Variety Found in the Larder
of a Seaside Club
House.
American Products tMost Esteemed by
Epicures, Where Found, and How
Best Prepared for Use.
Written for The SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

Written for The SUNDAY I~NDEpENpENr.1
"HE AMOUNT OF GAME AND FISH
AL which our great country and OK
~ tent of sea coast gives us, the
variety of climate from Florida to
Maine, from San Francisco to Boston,
which the remarkable network of our rail-
way communication allows us to employ,
all this makes the American market in any
great city almost fabulously profuse.
Then our steamships bring us fresh arti-
chokes from Algisrs in mid winter, and fps
from the Mediterranean, while the remark
able climate of California gives us four
crops of delicate fruits a year, There are
those, however, who find the fruits of Cali
fornia less finely favored than those of the
eastern states. The peaches of the past
are almost a lost flavor even at the north.
The peach of Europe is different and
Tar inferior fruit to our peach. 1t lacks
that essential flavor which to the American
palate tells of the best of fruits.
1t is we'll for the purpose of gastronomi-
GAL history to narrate the variety of the
larder, in the height of the season, of a GER
tain seaside club house a few years ago.
The season lasted $50 DAYS, during which
time from 80, 1000 to 10000 game birds and
1900 pounds of fish were consumed, sxclu-
slve OF domestic poultry, steaks n ohops,
On busy days twenty-four kinds Of fish. all
TIT for epieureans, embracing turbot. Span
ish mackerel. sea trout, the various kinds
Of bass, including that gamsst Of fish, the
black bass, bonito from the gulf of Mexico,
the purple mullet, she weak fish, chicken.
halibut. sole, plaice, the frog, the soft
crab from tho Chesapeake, were served.
Here, packed tier upon tier in glistenine
ice, were come thirty kinds of birds in the
very eostacy of prime condition, and all
ready prepared for the cook. Let us enum-
crate "this royal fellowship of game.'
there wsre owls from the north 1--WE might
call them by some more entioing nams).
chicken grouse from Illinois, chicken part
ridge, Lake Erie black and ummer duoks.
and teal, woodcock, upland plover, by
many esteemed 10 be ths choicest of NOR
sells; dough birds; brant, New Jersey mil
Let, godwit. jack curlsw. jacksnipe, sand
snips, rocksnipe, humming birds, daintily
served in nut shells; golden pIovAr, bastls-
hshded ployer, redbreast plover, seekIs-biiI
cur!ew, simmer and winter ysliov-leps.
reed BIRDS and rail from Delaware, the lat
ter most highly esteemed in Europe. where
~ IL known ma tho ortolan; ring-neck snipe.
brown backs. grass bird and peeps.
Is mos this 4 list "to make the rash gazer
wipe his eyesy"
And to show our riches and their poverty
In the matter Of game, let us give the game
statistlcs of France for one wear, There
were thirty thousand eommunss in France,
and In each mmun there were killed on
the average on Sept. l, ten hares, total.
three hundred thousands; seventeen par
tridges. xix hundred and twelve thousand
total; fourteen qusils, total, five hundred
and forty thousands; one rail in each com
mune, thirty thousand total as to rails.
Xa2t was all France could do as to the