Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1914 — No More “Black Broth” for Him. [ARTICLE]

No More “Black Broth” for Him.

Among the forgotten dishes of the past was the “black broth of Lacedaemon.” “What the ingredients of this sable composition were,” says a writer, “we cannot exactly ascertain. Doctor Lister (In ‘Apicius) supposed it to have been hog’s blood. . . .It could not be a very alluring mess, since a citizen of Sybaris, having tasted it, declared It was no longer a matter of astonishment with him why the Spartans were so fearless of death, since any one in his senses would much rather die than exist on such execrable food.”