Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1912 — BAKED ELEPHANT’S FOOT. [ARTICLE]

BAKED ELEPHANT’S FOOT.

Col. Roosevelt Will Bo Privileged to Taste a Delicious Dish. While Colonel Roosevelt Is in Atrir ca he will have an opportunity of tasting that delicious dish, baked elephant’s foot' The Elephas Indicus or Elephaa (Loxodon) Afrlcanua walks on his toes and the balls of his feet The real foot of an elephant extends up some distance from the ground. Liye the “trotter” of the hog the foot of the elephant is full of gluten, and the flesh, if properly baked, is very tender, tasting something between pork and chicken. From a freshly killed elephant the foot Is cut off at the ankle, and baked in a hole in the ground which has previously been heated with hot stones. The hole must be red hot and a few heavy stones left in the bottom. The foot having been put into the hole, which is made just about big enough to receive it —some natives line the hole with green leaves —sand 1b shoveled over it and it is left to cook. One must not be in a hurry for his dinner. When taken out and the thick skin peeled away a delicious morsel awaits the epicure.