STRANGE EATABLES.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1381, 31 March 1884, Page 3

STRANGE EATABLES.

Some valuable hints respecting -•neglected food resources" were given to a reporter on one of the New York papers by Mr Thomas J. Murray, the caterer to the Ichthyopagous Club. Almost everything that lives in salt ■water or fresh, up the land, or in the air, is Mr Murray asserts, good to eat. All that is necessary is •' to know how to -cook each thing, animal or vegetable, and to have the nerve to taste things .after cookiug. I .S ea weed he especially roqoujuiends — the commonest kinds being, if properly prepared, as edible and nutritious as most of the cultiva- . -te-Mand plants. The members of th« Club will eat almost • ,: cooked by Mr Murray ; but 'Ib'ggia*], he says, more difficulty in gett- ; 'u iv* tJtein to eat "angle- worms" than '■ "iS^hing else he put before them Yet, the worms are, he declares, very good if properly prepared according to the following directions :— Put youranglewdrins on a fine sieve three or four inches from the bottom of a pail : till the pail up with milk, and leave them there for a few days. They will Hot only get rid of all the earth and iuml they have in them, but will fatten up with astonishing rapidity until ti.ey Jire thicker than an ordinary lead-pencil, .and a beautiful light colour. Take them out of the milk bath, wash them in clean water, let them wriggle around in a little flour, or dust it well over them, and then drop them in a cauldron . of boiling fat. That kills them instantly and crisps them charmingly. Pile them on the napkin, garnish, and send to the table with drawn buttor containing a little lemon juice and a dask of Worcester sauce. Provided no weak-minded prejudices are awakened by a knowledge of what they are, they will, added Mr W. » Murray, " delight all who taste them." ____^__^___