Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1910 — NORWAY’S BILL OF FARE. [ARTICLE]

NORWAY’S BILL OF FARE.

* n< * Boiled Potatoes Served Dap After Day. “As we sat cosily before the cheerful blaze,” writes Caroline Thurber in a delightful account of “A Motor Invasion of Norway” In the Centufo “we indulged In mathematical calculations and found that we had eaten forty-two consecutive meals of fish, with potatoes never otherwise than boiled. One of the women of our party once cried from her soul to a sympathetic looking host, ‘Why, oh, why, are there no ohickens In Norway?’ “ ‘There are, madam, but they are for laying purposes.’ “ ‘Then why. oh, why, do you always boll your potatoes?’ “ ‘We are different from you, madam. We don’t like them messy. We prefer to know a potato as a potato when we eatjt.’ “In our passage through the country we had certainly encountered new and unpalatable foods, but we were always nourished, for good milk, butter and egge were everywhere at hand, and we developed powers of digestion previously undreamed of. Even so, one supper menu staggered us—nota bene: Sausages, three kinds; raw salmon, pickled anchovies, shrimps, cold fried fish, oold fish pudding, cold meats, live varieties of cheese, pickles, oranges and gooseberry marmalade, tea, four kinds of -raised bread, flat bread with caraway, English biscuit, Norwegian rusks, fried eggs, hot stew (variety unrecognized) and boiled potatoes."