Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1917 — CORNED WHALE AND GREENS [ARTICLE]

CORNED WHALE AND GREENS

This Is Latest Item on Bill of Fare Suggested by New Method of Treating Sea Mammals. To Gustav Adolf Holzapfel of Leipzig, Germany, a patent has been granted that suggests the culinary possibilities of the meat of whales, seals, walruses and other mammals of the sea. It is entitled “Method of Making the Meat of Sea Mammals Fit for Food,’’ andTsdescnbedasfdllbwsinthePatent Office Gazette: “The art of producing a meat food for human consumption which consists in subjecting sea mammal meat to the action of cold water and warm water in alternation, then subjecting the so treated sea mammal meat to the action of an aqueous pickling solution containing common salt, sugar and a pungent alcoholic liquor, and a savory vegetable, then subjecting Che so pickled sea mammal meat to pressure operative to eliminate more or less of said pickling liquor, together with extractive matters offensive to the taste.”