The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-08
SOME UNUSUAL DISHES.
Lions and Bears Are Said to Be Very
Good Eating.

From the st. Louis Glope-Democrat
Lion flesh Is said to be very good eating.
bat tiger is tough and sinewy. Neverthe-
less, the latter is eaten in India, as there
is a superstition that it imparts strength
and cunning to the eater. Bears flesh is
a great favorite in Germany, and smoked
tongues and hams are considered great
delicacies. On account of the rarity of
Bruin they are expensive. Sausage-so
dear to the Teutonic heart and stomach
Is also made from bear liver: % pounds
of sausage can be made from single
liver.
There appears to be considerable diver
sity of opinion as to the merits of ele-
plants flesh. In India and Africa 1t Is a
favorte dish with the natives, but Eu-
ropean who has travelled much in Africa
says:
II have tasted elephant over and over
again. 1t is more like soft leather and
glue than anything can compare 1t too
Another traveller. however. declares that
he cannot imagine how an animal SO
coarse and heavy can produce such deli
cate and tender flesh. All authorities.
however, agree in commencing ELEPHANTS
foot Even the traveller quoted above,
who compared elephants flesh to leather
and glue admits that "haked elephant
foot is a dish fit for king"
When an elephant Is shot In Africa the
then called "biltong" The elephants foot
is cut off from the knee joint and hole
about three feet deep is dug in the earth
and the sides of it baked hard with
burning wood. Most of these faggots are
then removed, and the elephants 1901 IS
placed in the hole. 1t is filled up with
EARTH tightly packed down ana blazing
fire built on top, which is kept burning for
thre, hours. Thus cooked the nesn Is ike
a ie,ly and can be eaten with spoon.
II is the greatest delicacy which can be
given to a Kaffir.
Rhinoceros meat is something between
nork and beef and is not to be despised
when no other flesh is to be obtained In
America a 'possum is esteemed a great
dellcacy Kept in a barrel for week ana
fed on sweet potatoes, and, when killed,
stuffed and roasted, it forms a most deli
ca 10 dish, resembling chicken in taste A
negro will spend all the night catching
possum for his Sunday dinner. Monkey
meat is also good eating. DR.. Wallace, the
well-known scientist once breakfasted on
monkey at was by no means bad, ne
wrote. "betng something like rabbit" He
also stated that: although the habits OF
| the jaguar are filthy in the extreme. jag
| aur steaks are beautifully white ana re-
! markably like veal in taste. In the same
| way ducks, though feeding on gruos,
| worms frogs and mud, form, as every one
/ will admit, a ueilClOuS uish'
| steaks are splendid, and our Australian
| cousins assert that kangaroo soup Is the
| finest in the world and infinitely superior
| to ox-tail.
| Travellers are also unanimous in declar-
| ing that the flesh of the alligator ana
| crocodile Is extremely tender, white ana
| delightful to the palate. Seal flesh, though
| perfectly black is matchless for flavor,
| tenderness, digestibility and for heat-siV-
| ing power. Squirrels are extensively eaten
| in some parts of rural England. Skewered
| nightingales is the great dish OF FLOR
| ence, and those who have conquered their
sentiments and eaten the little songsters
| arr loud in their praises. In Florida
| stew of robins, jays and bluebirds forms a
| most sayory and delicate dish, and II you
| did not know the names of the dishes,
| yor could eat and enjoy rat pie, stewed
! cat boiled horse beef, fried snaiis or any
| of the above dainties. As 1t Is, the mag
| nation is the autocrat of the stomach.
| and people will only eat what custom has
made familiar. There is no reasonable
yond that of custom-why man should not
add some of the above dainties to his
bill of fare.