Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — The Use of the Goat. [ARTICLE]

The Use of the Goat.

The uses of the goat are manifold. I have drank the milk, fresh and sour, in different parts of Asia Minor, eaten of the butter and the cheese made from the cream, and found the diet quite nutritious and agreeable. - And what have I not eaten in Asia Minor? A loin of kid—the goat’s gayoffspring—kid cutlets and kid curry. If there is one luxury greater than another of which carnivorous man is permitted by a bountiful providence to partake it is a roast loin of kid. Lamb and chicken, in their juvenility, do not desire ti> be mentioned the same day with that delicacy. As it is brought hot to table your admiration is divided between the well-browned back and the exquisite mass of fat trembling with excitement and inviting you to eat it while, hot from the spit and before it has ceased to shiver and to wink. A large round of toast is brought in at the same time by the thoughtful serving-man. You forthwith remove the quivering mass and spread it over the toast. A little salt and a slight sprinkling of pepper, and then you have a dish which neither Apicus nor Lucullus, Ude, nor Francatelli ever could have conceived. Quinn, the actor, Foote’s contemporary, and Pope, a Thespian of later times, would have gone to India merely to eat mango-fish and pomfret. No ichthyological gift of nature exceeds their flesh or their flavor. I do notthink anything that might especially gratify the palate would tempt one to make a voyage to any part of the known world, but I would Cheerfully walk a few miles out of London to eat fried eels with anchovy sauce at a roadside inn on the banks of the Thames, or dine at Biackwall or Greenwich in pleasant company when whitebait is in season. Chaucun a son gout!—Washington Corres. Chicago Tribune. ,