Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Edibles From Refuse. [ARTICLE]

Edibles From Refuse.

All visitors to Paris rave about the delicacy or the food and daintiness of the service. They do not know sonic of the ways followed by restaurants rpul chefs. At flic lower class of Paris restaurants a very ingenious fraud lias been in practice for half a century. They make beef tea or bouillon without l>oef—warm water colored and flavored with burned onions mud caramel as bouillon. To supply the little grease bubbles which coitioisseurs demand was flie only trouble. Finally a cook hit upon tin* ingenious device of blowing a spoonful of fresh oil over the soup. The oil immediately forms in tiny brads on the surface and there is your soup. Nowadays every case of this sort has its employee aux youx de bouillon, whose sole duty is to make Che little eyes or bubbles of grease on the soup. Parisians are immensely f<|.vj of ham, so much so that the number of Ibiuih eaten 1u Paris could not be furnished by all the pigs killed In France, even allowlr»: for the shoulder as well as the leg being cured—'this being the French practice. The demand is supplied by buying up old hem lnfies and ingeniously inserting them into pieces of pickled pork, which are trimmed into shape, covered with grated bread crusts and then sold for lt.vni. In this way a bone does duty for hundreds of times. Still, the supply of bones was limited, and It was not inciuvenieitt to be put out if cue’s neighbor did not return the bam bone which the dealer relied niton securing the day before to im>ver for you. So a man conceived Vlte idea of manufacturing Irani bones wholesale, and made a fortrfje from the wale of these artificial foundations. Nowadays, therefore, bam is plentiful in Paris. The olgtyt great water companies of London now supply nearly 0,000 o*l people with about 180,000,000 gallons of water it day. The railways of the world carry over 40,000,000 passengers weekly.