The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-16
ABS0lUT ElY PURE
ODD ARTICLES OF DIET.
Various Edible Things That Might Be
Added to Mans Bill of Fare.

NdrlOuS HolOle TnlugS That Might BE
Added to Mans Bill of Fare.
From the London Saturday Revfe,e.
We should be sorry to be told all about
the training Of the turtle, which fattens
mysteriOusly; still less should we inquire
into the csrnivorous habits of the coneer
eel, which is said to do duty for him. The
rats that run loose about the sewers are de-
cidedIy TO be avoided. But we have tasted
the rats that have run riot in isolated wheat
Tlcks, and we can conscientiously aver that
they are both sweet and succulent. Their
nesh Is as white as that of a sweetbreed,
and has unquestionably more flavor. We
understand that field mice are still more
delicate, and, considering the simple and
wholesome habits of their various lives we
can well believe 1t.
Inc "Englishman in Parisn speaks OF a
salml served soon after the beginning of the
siege OF the commune, and the very
memory OF 1t seems TO have made his mouth
water. Yet the town mica scarcely gave
the experiment fair trial, for they had
been shared on the bastions between the
outer boulevards and the Notifications
Inere Is no reason why squirrel should not
be excellent, for the squirrel would hop
into the saucepan ready favored after
having fattened on nuts and fragrant
foliage. Squirrels are small and shy and
ditncuit TO catch, 80 that we do not hear
much OF them even in gypsy cuisine. But
the hedgehog figures frequently at those
sylvan repasts, though he is hardly big
enough TO be sent TO table as a piece de
resistance. The primitive manner of cook
ing him supersedes the most costly refine
ments OF batteries de cuisine.
The elephants foot, or rather the slice be-
low the pastern, which is famous dainty
In eastern hunting camps, is treated on pre-
clsely similar principles, which shows that
the simplest cookery of all nations has much
In common, like their folklore Shakes
peare'S British hedge-pig, like its cousin,
the poroupine, By the way, is shrouded in a
plastic tenement of clay. Then he is laid to
temporary rest in bed of smolderfng Gin
ders. When supposed to be done to q turn
the dwarf pig Is dug up, aud then the
priokly skin ia detached with the splitting
OF the case Of clay. All the generous juices,
with their bouquet, have been confined and
transfused.
We need not say that the frog is more pal
atable, although we do not think that In
England we have the small green kind of
the Southern French sWamps and the sedgy
lakelets of Calabria. After all, these
foreigners are only to our domestic friends
as the oysters of Ostend or Marenness to the
coarser OF the British qualities. Toads are
not to be tackled with impunity; the toad,
iike the skunk, is overoharged with venom,
and be keeps the troops of his natural enc
mics at bay by thei nstinctive knowledge
that he is an animated poison catspult. Nor
Is ene snake often eaten ia England. Yet
we dare to say that snake meat might be
preferable to starvation or possibly 60 the
stone breaking yard OF the work house. We
know at least that the iguana or great tree
lizard OF the tropics-and he claims very
close kindred with the deadly serpents-is
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