Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-16

nutritious. Gentlemen employed in the
Investigation have tried them in many
styles OF cookery and have declared
them to be deliciouA Unaedged grass
hoppers boiled for two hours. with butter,
spices and salt added, compose broth that 10
scarcely distinguishabls from beef broth. though
possessing q peculiar aud indescribable cavor
OF its own. Fried in their own oil. or roasted
they have most agreeable, nutty taste and
crispness. Ground and compressed they will
last fresh indefinitely.
Persons who have looked into the subject as
scrt that insects might furnish to mankind i'm
portant contributions of food which are at
present unused and despised. 1t has been as
certained by the government experts that
young wasp grCbs fried in butter are most
agreeable delcscy. On every farm the nests
OF these insects are ru.hlessly destroyed
whereas q little knowledge would show the
nnuch-afhicted agriculturist how TO derive from
them q wholesome dish for his table. Young
wasp grubs, fed as they arc upon the sweetest
juices drawn from fruits aud flowers, naturally
best way to prepare them is to bake them In
the comb
| IMPORTANT usEs ron GnLssHop7KRa
Some very important uses for grasshoppers
| have recently been discovered. There would
seem to be no reason why they should mot be
applied to commercial advantage in the event
| Of plague this year. Not long ago four
| quarts Of liquid, expressed from half a bushel
| OF "hoppers' under cheese pross, we're
| shipped IA slSss JAZZ from Spirit Lake, Iowa,
| to Prof.. VIM. il. Kedzic Of the Kansas State
| Agricultural College. He made a complete
analysts, and by distillins tie juice with sui
phuric Geld obtained a colorless. limpid solu-
| ton of formic acid. Now. tbs acid is very
| valuable, having present market quotation
OF 60 cents an ounce. 1t il not only en-
ployed in medicine to a considerable extern. but
10 also utilized IL tho laboratory TO reduce salts
| OF the noble metals, gold silver and platinum.
| Hitherto IL has always been extracted from red
! ants, but the possibility OF getting it in largo
quantities from grasShoppers suggests method
| Tor employing those insects to an unlocked for
| advantage. An interesting feature Of tie
analysis was the discovery OF q certain amount
| OF copper in the liquid. This metal has bssn
found In the blood of other animals, particu-
| larry in that Of the horseshoe crab, which al
ways furnishes q trace Of II. /: Is not suS-
! gested, however, that grasskoppers would
assay sufficient amount OF copper to the ton
| to make il worth while TO smell them.
Incidentally to the experiments conducted
by the division Of entomology respecting the
| edible Qualities OF insects. u number Of trials
| were made Of a beverage particularly novel,
| which might be termed ''ant-adc." 1t was an
| imitation OF lemonade manufactured from ants
| They were mashed up, few hundred at a time.
| IN mortar with pestIe, and the liquid from
them, after being strained, was mixed, Just like
| Lemon luhce, with water and sugar. Tho re-
| sultlng beverage resembles lem onRdc so closely
as to be scarcely distinguishable from It The
| reason why Is very easy to explain. Formc
| acid Is the nearest approach 10 citric acid
which gives lemon juice Its flavor, known to
the chemist. In fact there is very little differ
! ence between them. Since formic acid can be
| obtained SO plentifully from grasshoppers pos
sib.y "aopper-a6e" may be looked forward TO
| Is a luxury OF the future.
CHRISTOPHER soCH
while a,o Prof G v RiIsv r,,t.5 c,,ts.
| ,,.a,S;-.
s"'o'io'oSS', son' ousho' u gt~'shoPpsfs,
| freshly eaugnf and scalded, TO Nj. Bonnet a
81 Louis casarer. The latter made soup from
them which was pronounced perfectly de-
| hclous by many people who we're afforded an
| opportunity Of tasting 1t. 1t closely rsas mbled
crawfsh bisque. Mr.. Bonnet declared that he
| would gladly have it on his bill OF fare every
day il only he could obtain the insects. His
method Of preparing the dish, as described by
! himself. was TO boil the hoppers over a brisk
| fire. seasoning them with salt, pepper and
grated nutnlsg, and occasionally stirring them
| When sufficiently done they were pounded in q
mortar with bread fried brown. Ihsn they
to a broth. which was passed throagn . s.rair.r
before being served. Prof Riley treated some
| friends OF his on one occasion to curry of
grasshoppers aud grasshorper croquetses with
out informing them 10 tho nasu-e of tho
banquet but au uulucky HAD leg discovered in
| ono OF tho cro9ueties revealed the ssorst
| some hints on the subject Of cooking grass.
| hoppers nav be prot ,abIy obtained from, va.
| rio,is peoples OF the World who hahituauy "a.
| them the Bushme, Of south Afr;c. col,ec,
| them by lighting fires ;n tho uath of th, syiro
swsrms. scorehing the win9s Of the insects 30
| that they fail to the orounS They roa., tban,
in hot asa, and .sors them nyav in grsa,
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bonnsrs of III. old vorIa ere rsrallv nren.rad
| Inv rrn,ovine their leo, and w,ngs af,sr wtici,
| the bodies arc roasted, stewed, fried or boiled
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