Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-11-06
GERMAN PEOPLE
RELISH HORSE
KILLED AT IMMACULATE KIT
TORS Under GOVERNMENT
SUPERVISOR.
EQUINE STEAKS ARE PLENTY
Cheaper Than Bovine Meat, the Flesh of
Mans Friend Fills Many a
Sausage.
HOW HORSE MEAT is COOKED

Have you ever wandered through ans.
of the German towns and seen. outs;d.
of some dingy little shops, swipg;ng
sign with the picture of a horse ON l.
and the legend "Hier list Rossfeiseb zr
haben''? writes Cecil Inslee Darrian in
the New York Tribune.
1t often happens-perhaps one can
safely say it invariably happens-tb"t
the woman who stands behind the con,
ter in one of these stores is a wellestab.
lished hausfrau herself and has intimate
domestic acquaintance with the choice
cuts of horse that she sells.
1t was in front of a very little sbop
IN Wilhelm Platz in Koenigsberg, way
up northeast, near Russia, that an Amor.
lean. on his way down the crooked street
from the old schloss, recently noticed
this same horse sign just below him
for the street is so steep that what *
below you one minute is above you the
next. Overcome at last by what he CON
sidered a morbid curiosity, though tne
word is unpleasant to use in connection
with what one eats, he ventured into
the shop. He had seen the sign all over
Germany, and since so many people ate
horse American tolerance suggested thai
perhaps horse was good.
if"Wlll you kindly tell me how much
horse is poundy' asked the intruder
trying not to breathe. Unfortunately for
his efforts to sympathize with horse din
ners, the place smelt like the morgue
Twenty pfennig," she answered.
A rapid passage at mental arithmetic
brought the amount to 5 cents american.
And, say the horse weighs 800 pounds
he would bring less than $40 as a dish
Who 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 hes explained that he was an Ameri-
can and wished he knew something
about how horses were eaten.
Not Unappetizing.
The horse is naturally not an unappe-
tying beast, and the shops in Berlin
where you can buy pound of him to
take home IN paper bag are quite ex-
quisite. and there are other aspects of
this question of horse meat in Germany.
That it is killed under government suner-
vision and. at the immaculate abattoirs
outside the city limits, and that il is
its advantage as 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. 1t
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
feel no hesitation IN talking about il. The
woman who lives IN simple little house
III the country or town, or in one of the
poor but outwardly clean flats in Ber-
lin is quite willing 10 tell you a few good
recipes for fried chop of the horse
haunch or tasty roast horse flank.
One of these women whose little log
house clings to a slant mountain side
led the stranger right into her kitchen.
Though long breath of that keen noun
tain air brings the appetite to an edge
one does not dare in those regions to saw
he is hungry enough to eat horse IN
less he means it. you would see some.
horse cooking" 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 at the business of cooking
paying no more attention to him than
if he were one of the accustomed clii-
dren who used to play about and long
for the coming meal.
In the stee p-rising ground ( across a
foreshortened garden at the Back of the
hut was dug a cave, secured in its open
face by iron clamped wooden doors. A
trip to this and momentary disappear
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 of
4 strip of meat in shape like pork ten
derloin, only it was much larger, and
this she sprinkled thickly with the coarse
German salt and put into the oven.
Sop she muttered at last, breaking
the dong silence. 1T will soon be ready
and will taste the very same as beef. 4
nice thing to eat with it is shot,en PURGE
You know what that is? Mashed up
peas and herbs
The fumes of the roast were pleasant
A stranger coming upon the scene from
that time on would never have suspected
the presence of an unusual animal IN the
Ioven.
Aud 10 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
tonic Never did skin and cheeks flare
Ia 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 III
effects, certainly
If any one unfamiliar with Germany
and German ways should find in tDls
thought of horse meat a discomfort
which will make him afraid to travel lb
Germany, let him be encouraged not 10
worry. So unobtrusive is the meek horse
las meek in the pot as in the staIi-thaI
the traveller. will very likely never IS,
much as hear about the question and VIII
quite certainly never eat any OF the me"L
unawareS.