Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1886 — A Fine Flavor of Mule's Hoof. [ARTICLE]

A Fine Flavor of Mule's Hoof.

The Count de Broussin was accustomed to boast that though he had acquired the fullness of culinary science, yet he every day made some new discovery in the province of good eating. One day he said, solemnly, to his guests: “Gentlemen, do you taste the mule’s hoof in that omelette aux champignons?” The guests were all astonished as Broussin continued: “Poor ignorant creatures! Must I teach you that the champignons (mushrooms) employed in this omelette have been crushed by the foot of a mule*? That brings them to the last point of perfection.”—Tie