The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-01-02

the Tiger Is eaten, TO impart strength
and cunning, as well as nourishment.
In flavor 1t resembles rather coarse
beef.
In Africa and India the flesh Of the
elephant is a favorite dish, though
some Europeans aver it is nothing more
than soft leather and glue. Others de-
clare the flesh Of the elephant is as ten
der and delicate as baked elephants
foot, which is dish fit for king.
Crocodile flesh is publicly sold in Up
per Egypt as food, and in Saigon and
Siam the natives expose the carcasses
for sale just like sleeps in butchers
store. In San Domingo and the sea-
board states of Central America the cay
man is eaten, boiled or roasted, and
| is as savory as rabbit, while its eggs
| are much priced as food. The horned
| iguana Of San Domingo is also much
appreciated by epicures throughout the
| West Indies. 1t is usually served up
boiled, together with dish Of clarified
| iguana fat, into which the meat is dip
| ped as you eat it.
The common green lizard is eaten
with gustO by many in the south of
Italy and Spain also, while the Greeks
nonchalantly pop the adder into their
soups and stews. They are also very
| fond of the mud tortoise, and drink i1s
blood and cook its flesh and eggs, espe-
toll AI0 %oSo Ho$~
looked upon as fish.
OF all the reptiles that are used as
food, the frog is undoubtedly the most
| popular throughout Europe, the
French, Germans, Austrians, Italians,
Portuguese and Belgians all being not
ed for their frog-eating propensities.
The kind in particular favor for table
purposes is the green frog, though the
red frog is just as delicious.
After course of adder soup, follow
ed by an entree of baked elephants
foot, backed by boiled iguana and roast
alligator, there are many kinds of
freak" dessert to be had. Rosebuds
boiled In sugar and made into a pee
serve are eaten by the Arabians, while
in China candied rosebuds and jasmine
flowers are equally popular. The Turks
utilize the common yellow lily that
grows in ponds and marshes as the
main Ingredient of an agreeable con-
serve.
Candied violets are now a staple pro-
duct Of certain districts in France. At
| Grasse, for instance, where immense
quantities Of violets are grown, all the
old and stale ones are sold to the con-
| fectionery manufacturers, who stea1n
them, dip them in boiling sugar, and
sell them at a high price as "confiture
| of viOlets." In ROumania and Bulgaria
roses, lime flowers, violets, pansies and
fruit blossoms are much used for fay
| oring purposes. Lilies, in China, are
usually plucked just before they open,
and, cooked as fresh vegetable, they
have very pleasant taste.
The most remarkable Of edible flow
ers, however, is that Of the butter tree,
| which grows in immense forests
throughout the more billy parts of In
dia. A fair-siZed tree yields several
hundred weight Of pulpy, bell-shaped
| flowers every year. During March and
April-the hot months of the Indian
year-they fall off, and are eagerly
gathered by the natives. They have,
when fresh, peculiar and luscious
flavor, but the odor of them is unpleas-
ant, being rather "mousy" Usually
they are dried in the sun, becoming
like raisins, and then made ready for
consumption by boiling or frying in but.
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