The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-11-05
GERMAN PEOPLE
RELISH HORSE
KILLED AT IMMACULATE ABAT-
TORS UNDER GOVERNMENT
SUPERVISION.
EQUINE STEAKS ARE PLENTY
Cheaper Than Bovine Meat, the Flesh of
Mans Friend Fills Many
Sausage.
HOW HORSE MEAT is COOKED

nave you ever wandered through any
Of the German towns and seen. outside
Of some dingy little shops, swinging
sign with the picture of a horse on it
and the legend "Hier list Rossesch III
haben"? writes Cecil Inslee Darran in
the New York Tribune
1t often happens perhaps one can
safely say it invariably happens-that
the woman who stands behind the coun-
ter i'll one of these stores is Il wel-estab-
lished haustrau herself and has intimate
domestic acquaintance with the choice
cuts of horse that she sells.
1t was III front of a very little shop
iii Wilhelm patz in koenigsberg, way
up northeast, near Russia, that i'm Amer
lean, on his way down the crooked street
from INC old SchlosS, recently noticed
TINS same horse sign just below him
tor the street is so steep that what IS
below you one minute is above you the
next. Overcome at last by what he CON
sdered a morbid curiosity. though the
WORD Is unpleasant to use in connection
with what one eats, he ventured into
the shop. lie had seen the sign all over
Germany and since so many people ate
horse American tolerance suggested that
perhaps horse was good.
viii you kindly tell me how much
horse is a pound asked the intruder
his efforts To sympathize with horse din
nerS, the place smelt like the morgue.
twenty pfennig,' she answered.
y rapid passage at mental arithmetic
brought the amount To > cents American
And, say the horse weighs 500 pounds
he would bring less than $40 as "A dish
W no could buy him for that to ride on
in the park Relying on the German
good nature and remembering that every
one about him seemed to have plenty of
time he explained that he was an .Ameri-
can and wished he knew something
about now horses We're eaten.
Not Unappetizing.
The horse is naturally not an unappc-
thing beast, and the shops in Berlin
where YOU can buy a pound of him to
take home i'll paper bag are quite ex-
qulSlte. And there are other aspects of
this question of horse meat in GERMANY
That it is killed under government super
vision and at the immaculate abattoirs
outside the city limits, ana that it is
good fresh horse-all this is much to
its advantage is healthful eating. In
some of the stores, like the little one in
koenigsberg, perhaps they keep him too
long; but that Is not really his fault Ii
even happens with cows sometimes.
So many of the Germans eat horse
with relish not only the very poor but
the working people, so-called, that they
i'tA nv ilI'll III iulhliS ABOUT 1t. / lie
woman who lives Ill a simple little house
Ill the country or town, or in one of tho
poor but outWardly clean flats in Ber-
lin is quite willing to tell you Il few good
recipes for fried chop of the horse
haunch or tasty roast horse flank
one of these women whose little log
house cllngs to slant mountain side
led the stranger right into her kitchen
Though a long breath of that keen noun
tain air brings the appetite to an edge.
one does not dare in those regions To say
lie IS hungry enough to eat a horse un-
less he means it. You would see some
horse cookingT' she flung over her shout
der in her burning. parrot-toned voice
Eating time is here already. You can
sit by the stove and watch to see about
the horse"
A Chestnut Tenderloin
She went ut the business of cooking
paving no more attention to him than
if he were one of the accustomed chii-
dren who used to play ABOUT and long
for the coming meal.
In the steep-Iising ground across
fureshortened garden at the back of the
hut was dug a cave. secured in its open
face by iron clnmped wooden doors. \
trip to this and a momentary disappear
ance into its cold shadows produced Il
flank of dark red meat. This weighty
thing seemed no burden to the broad
back as she trudged across the garden
and through the low door. She cut off
a strip of meat in shape like Il pork ten
derloin only it was much larger and
this she sprinkled thickly with the coarse
German salt and put into the oven.
sol" she muttered at last, breaking
the long silence. 1T will soon be ready,
and will taste the very same as beef. \
nice thing to eat with it is shotten PURGE.
You know what that is? Mashed up
peas and herbs.
The fumes of the roast were pleasant.
4 stranger coming upon the scene from
that time on would never have suspected
the presence Of an unusual animal in the
oven.
And no doubt this is so.
Is there question raised as to whether
this meat is good for one? They say
that the complexion Is the barometer for
the stomach And if this is not yet an
exploded theory. then horse must be Il
tonic Never did skin and cheeks flare
brighter promise from within than they
do among the poorer Germans Maybe
the thin, cool air has something to do
with it. But horse does not produce i'll
effects, certainly.
If any one unfamiliar with Germany
and German ways should find in this
thought of horse meat discomfort
which will make him afraid to travel in
Germany. let him be encouraged not 10
worry. SO unobtrusive is the meek horse
AS meek i'll the pot as iii the stall-that
the traveller will very likely never 50
much as hear about the question and will
quite certainly never eat any of the meat
unawares.