Part 20 (1/2)

Mr Ledyard has excavated extensive cells in this rock, in which extreme evenness of temperature is ensured,--a condition most necessary for the proper manufacture of wine

Mr Eyre Ledyard's vineyards and cellars of the Chateau Hydra estate are now farmed by the _Societe Anonyme Viticole et Vinicole d'Hydra_, of which Mr Ledyard is chairland and other countries that the coely from the best vineyards, in order to make sufficient wines to meet the demand The Hydra Co to India and China A very carefully prepared quinine white wine is made for invalids, and for use in countries where there is fever I especially recommend a trial of this last excellent wine to Areeable as well as healthful The postal address is M Le Gerant, Hydra Caves, Biriers read like tales of the Arabian Nights, and none is more poetic than the names and the story of these delicious wines

The Greek wines are well spoken of in Europe: Santorin, and Zante, and St Elie, and Corinth, and Mount Hyyar vineyards co, Bakator, Rust, Szaarian wines are very heady He must be a swashbuckler who drinks therow fat To this unhappy class Brillat Savarin gives the following precepts:--

”Drink every sue tu, another before lunch, and the same at bedtiht and acid, and avoid beer as you would the plague Ask frequently for radishes, artichokes with hot sauce, asparagus, celery; choose veal and fowl rather than beef and mutton, and eat as little of the crumb of bread as possible

”Avoid macaroni and pea soup, avoid farinaceous food under whatever form it assumes, and dispense with all sweets At breakfast take brown bread, and chocolate rather than coffee”

Indeed Brillat Savarin seems to have inspired this later poet:--

”Talk of the nectar that flowed for celestials Richer in headaches it was than hilarity!

Well for us animals, frequently bestials, Hebe destroyed the recipe as a charity!

Once I could elass with the best of 'em, Somehow my system has suffered a shock o' late; Now I shun spirits, wine, beer, and the rest of 'em, Fill me, then fill wood, and quassia and turpentine, Liqueurs with coxcubes, aloes, and gentian in, Sure, 't is no wondera state I should blush now to undy, farewell to Sillery, I have not tasted a drop e'en of Hock o' late, Long live the kettle, my dear old distillery, Fill me, oh fill me, a bumper of chocolate”

As we cannot all drink chocolate, I recommend the carefully prepared white wine, with quinine in it, which coiers, or some of the Italian wines, Barolo for instance, or the excellent native wines which are produced in Savoy

About Aix les Bains, where the cuisine is the best in Europe, many wines are manufactured which are honest wines with no headaches in them

SOME ODDITIES IN THE ART OF ENTERTAINING

”Co thee where crabs grow; And I withnuts; Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how To snare the ni filberds, and so staniels froo with me?

THE TEMPEST

In the lamb roasted whole we have one of the earliest dishes on record in the history of cookery Stuffed with pistachio nuts, and served with pilaf, it illustrates the antiquity of the art, and at the saives an example of the food upon which millions of our fellow creatures are sustained

At a dinner of the Acclie and new dishes were offered, even the meat of the horse A roast monkey filled with chestnuts was declared to be delicious; the fawn of fallow deer was described as good; buffalo hly commended; a red-deer hah, glutinous, and had, besides, a dreadful, half-aroh it had been rubbed with assafoetida and then hung for a month in a musk shop”

We will not try bear unless we are put to it However, at this same dinner--we read on--haunch of venison, saddle of land, which is really the roast beef which is of old Norave way to a Chinese lamb roasted whole, stuffed with pistachio nuts, and served with _consousson_, a preparation of wheat used a the Moors, Africans, and other natives of the north of Africa littoral, in place of rice The Moorish young ladies are, it is said, fattened into beauty by an enforcedcompound The _consousson_ is eable young lady, until she grows as tired of balls as a young belle of three seasons

In Spain, in those damp swamps near Valencia, where the poor are old before forty and die before forty-five, the best rice sells at eleven farthings, the poorest at eight farthings per pound This, cooked with the ground dust of _pimientos_, or capsicums, is the foundation of every stew in the south of Spain It is of a rich brick-dust hue, and is full of fire and flavour Into this stew the cook puts the ”reptiles of the sea” known as ”spotted cats,” ”toads” and other oily fish, sold at two pence a pound, or the _vogar_, a silvery fish, or the _gallina_, a coarse fish, chick peas, garlic, pork, and sausages

If rich she will make an _olla podrida_ with bacon, fresh es, and she will pour off the soup, calling it _caldo_, then the lumps of meat and bacon, called _cocida_, will be served next Then the cigarette is s she will add a quince and an apple to the stew

Of puddings and pies they know nothing; but what fruit they have!--water fifteen pounds apiece; lemon pippins called _perillons_; cris; tomatoes by the million; carob beans, on which half the nation lives; srapes, very sweet; white grapes and quinces; peaches in abundance; and all the chestnuts and filberts in the world In the suoat's flesh; and on All Saints' Day they eat pork and chestnuts and sweet _babatas_ of Malaga In exile, in Mexico and Florida, the Spaniard eats alligator, which could scarcely be called a gaators' tails is very fair, and tastes like chicken if the tail is cut off immediately after death, and stewed

The frost fish of the Adirondacks is seldom tasted, except by those who have spent a winter in the North Woods They are delicious when fried There is a European fish as little known as this, the _Marena_, caught in Lake Moris in the province of Poood

There are two birds known in Prussia, the bustard, and the kammel, the former a species of s, the latter very tough, except under unusual conditions