The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-26

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 But the festive cicada was not to go uneaten. Chef Hesler, @ Frenchman mak- ing his home in New York, gave the fol lowing receipe:
 Remove the shells from two hand fuls of cicadas, throw them into hot water for moment, and then place them in a saucepan over a hot range with an ounce of butter. Season slightly with salt and a half teaspoon of red pepper, Add two truffles cut in small pieces and after soaking for five minutes add glass of Madeira wine. Beat three egg yolks in bowl with half pint of sweet cream. Add this to the cicadas, Stir until thick and serve in a warm tureen."
 A Maryland epicure invited a number of his friends to his country place near Baltimore and treated them to cioada pie, which several of them said was very good The others reserved their opinion until they were out of the hearing of their host. MT. Bouchat thus described his method of preparing the delcacy:
 Fifty cioadas were required for each pie. l first scalded them and trimmed off the wings, heads and legs, Then, putting them into wooden bowl, l chopped them fine, mixed in stale bread soaked in milk. and prepared in the same way as Hamburg steak Instead of salt and pepper I added sugar and rhubarb as favor and cream to soften the in- gredients. I then put the mixture Into regular dough pie-bottom the same as a custard pie and covered with a cross-open top. The pies were then placed in am oven and baked.'
 Professor Howard of the United States bureau of entomology, after Investigating the creature from every other stand point testifies that he finally tackled a dish of them and found them very palatable.
 It is a matter of record that the Ameri- can Indians made the cicada a part of their daily meals in season. The Puritans are said also to have eaten the bug when they first reached these shores, which, however, should not be held against the Puritans, for they probably thought they had come across the creature that John the Baptist was wont to eat with wild honey.
 If anyone hereabouts is dissatisfied be- cause this years crop of cicadas does not promise to be quite as large as that of 1902 he may find profit and peace of mind in the following statement prepared by q statistical bugologist
 There were 1000, GOO cicadas in the eastern states in 1902 Ii would require 15O of these to fill a quart cup, so that the crop of 1902 measured just 25, 600 bushels This was equal to one-half of the bulk of the country's annual wheat crop, and double the crops of rye, bar ley and buckwheat altogether. It would form cube of 5OOOOO, 900 feet, or fill box 800 feet tall. 800 feet wide and 800 feet long.
 A careful digestion of these facts should inspire us with gratitude that Brood XIX Is not to be quite so large.
 The cicada has reputation for de- structiveness 1t does not deserve, but which is a part of the burden 1t must bear as the result of its supposed rela- tionship to the locust. The periodical clcada becomes notably injurious only in the course of It's egg,laying. During it's short aerial life 1t leaves very decided marks of it's presence In egg sllts which thickly fill many small twigs and branches, the killing or injury of which causes some temporary harm, and a sort