The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-26
He Is the One Des-
tructive Bird of
America.
MORE so THAN The EAGLE.
And He is Indispensable to
a Thanksgiving
Dinner.


blue of tail, the turkey, more than the
eagle, is the distinctive bird of Ameri-
ca. France, Germany Austria, Italy
and other countries claimed the one be-
fore America was known. The other,
like America, was supposed to belong
to the east, Columbus was resolved to
call whatever land he discovered In
dia," because that name more than any
other suggested riches to Europe. For
like reason the richest of edible fowls
got its name out of the traditional be-
lief that it was a native of the orient.
For several hundred years it was
known to large section of Europe as
the hen of Calcutta"
OF course Shakspere was on intimate
terms with the turkey as his favorite
alderman with fat capons. The eager
carrier cries in Henry ": 'Odsbody,
the turkeys in my panniers are quite
starved" The French have preserved
the turkeys medieval misnomer in
"dinde," their brief for "of India" The
German chefs accept the Gallo word
and the kaiser has not yet banished it
for lese majestic. Archbishop Trench, a
competent judge of a toothsome
trencher, says: Occasionally a name
error, as when in America the discov
cry of the new world, which belonged
to Columbus, is ascribed to another en-
inent discoVerer, but one who had no
title to this one, even as he was guilt
less of any attempt to usurp it for him
self. Our turkeys are not from Turkey,
as was assumed by those who so called
them, but from that new world where
alone they are native" Nor is there
n
rene high celestial sultan was more
culpable in this than Americas Vespu-
cius in that.
BIRD OF THE RED, WHITE AND
BLUE.
1t was fittingly in the zenith of the
renaissance that the other American
bird, the bird of red, white and blue,
made it's debut in Europe, and from
that hour to this, it has been the pride
of the kitchen, the chief piece of every
well-appointed table. the apotheosis of
the culinary art. The suzerainty, so
to speak, of the turkey, is not dae ex-
clusively to its palatable nutritious
ness. 1t is owing in some measure to
its paramount versatility. Its adaptable
tissue enables the scientific cook to
make it also the most luxurious Of
viands There is scarcely a delectable
incident Of symmetrical menu that
will not enter tremendously into a tur-
key symphony. 1t blends in almost
, equal graciousness with all the delica-
cies Of forest, field, orchard and sea.
1t may be isolated superbly in its own
amber oils. 1t may wear a coronet of
jelly. Its proud breast may be lined
with mushrooms, walnuts, bread or
pudding. The sybaritic fungus, the
truffle, which bears to the edible world
the relation of the orchid to the floral,
has long been identified with the cere-
monious presentation Of turkey. The
goose of Strasbourg gives its liver to
enrich gravy for the king of the
barnyard. The apple-fed pig of Bohe-
mia slices itself to make the turkeys
pack more golden. Its dark cuts are
substantial as beef, it's light as tender
as plover 1t is succulent as SQUAD,
sweet, when done to a turn, as honey,
Its f1ttest sequence or concomitant is
the aristocrat of the garden, the arti-
choke, whether in the juice of its CO.
rolla heart, or salad, where unguent
and acid meet and mingle, the only
happy and indissoluble marriage of to-
tally opposite parties.
CAN BE COOKED IN MANY WAYS.
The turkey, moreover, yields its fiber
TO greater number of modes of prep-
competitor, the goose, or it's smaller but
not despicable friend, the right kind of
duck. II taken in the pout it broils to
a nicely. If fricassee be wanted, no
| other hller of the kettle supplies so
much meat with so little waste and exc
so large volume Of digestible LIQUID. In
warm climates it is most agreeable
polled, as IN temperate zones under the
Dog star. Before Count Rumford be-
came apostle of the oven the turkey
formed majestic spectacle on the spit.
now It's Falstaffian loins turning to vel
low lumber before the CHEEKY blaze.
anon Its copious wings scorching to
make hearth brush for the clean and
thrifty housewife How many a royal
COOK watched with unhidden ecstasy
truant rivulets of oyster trickIe from its
cracking cavity to tell of gradual
transmutation, savory but conclusive
tale, for your oyster, unlike his betters.
KNOWS WHEN TO SHUT HIS
MOUTH.
But the turkey ought to be roasted
In that form it is without a peer as
supreme factor in THANKSGIVING feast
In that form it reaches most American
| tables after the frost has crisped the
celery and the silvering south has sent
up the marsh berries to glow on the
I.'iNCbOe1iu' II UluSl De roasted to be
thoroughly American and to wait most
welcomely on appetite. For, SAYS the
prince of transcendental gastronomy.
Brillat-savarin, Anybody may cook,
but rooster is born"
Now and then a disloyal American or
amateur cook of conscious limitations
suggests that the turkey is not indis-
pensable to a true American Thanks
giving dinner Let all such be ana
thema, and be they most blessed who
remember in act that, as to turkeys
also, 1t is more blessed to give than to
receive For all are not born to turkey
and many can not acquire it, Wher-
ever the American eagle rests this for
tunate year of expansion of American
institutions among men of good will,
let the bird of the red, white and blue
| be thrust. And for many a year in
these lands of ours there We're never
so many turkeys to go around as this
| year
For which God and American labor
be blessed.
The cleaning out of the kitchen boiler
! is one of the things that the housewife
should have attended to once a week.
| say the plumbers. If the sediment
cocks, with which every boiler is pro-
vided are frequently left omen for a