THE KENTON COOK-BOOK (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from The Kenton Cook-BookThis is not the case, however, with terrapin, according to my genial old friend, the Hon. Beverly Tucker. That is not the Tucker referred to in the negro melody,who was too late for sup per - it must have been in a chilly condition of atmosphere when dear old Bev. Was left in that way. Bev. Says the way to stew ter rapin is to put the insects alive in cold water, place them over a slow fire, and stew for an hour. This is good for epicures, but bad for terrapin. One can imagine the surprise of the living deli cacies to find the water warming, and how they disported them selves in the genial liquid, then, as it grew rather too warm, their disgust at the Signal Odice that had not foretold the warm wave, {llcl their wonder as to when it would maderate, and so on until the extreme heat ended in wrathful indignation and death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,