Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — Origin of a Soup. [ARTICLE]

Origin of a Soup.

Ox-tail soup is considered by people who know what is good to eat, as one of the greatest of delicacies. Few of thoso who like it, however, know the origin of soup of this sort. It dates back only to .the French Revolution, and is one of the very good things that have grown out of that frightful social convulsion. During the reign of terror iu 1793 many of the nobilitv in Paris were reduced to beggary. Starvation stared them in the face, until one of their number noting that the abbattoirs of Paris sent their hides fresh to the tanneries without removing the tails thereto, and observing also' that these tails were coneidered of so little value that they were thrown away, made application for one or two of them. His request was granted, and the noble beggar, taking a few of them to his lodging, turned them into soup. So toothsome was it that he confided his scheme to others, through whom it speedily spread, so that in a short time ox-tail soup attained a popularity which to this day it has never lost. —[Harper’s Young People.

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