Odd Dishes from the Tropics

New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 24

Odd Dishes from the Tropics

HERE were once two skunks named In and Out. When In was in, Out was out, and when Out was in, In was out. One day when Out happened to be in,,Mother Skunk sent Out out to bring In in. Out returned very quickly, bringing In. Mother Skunk was surprised. "How, in all this great forest," she asked, "did you find In so quickly?" "Oh, that was simple," said Out. "Instinct." This advice:on how to catch your skunk might well be remembered by

housewives likely to engage in tropical cooking. According to a recipe book which recently fell into the hands of Elsie _ Lioyd, the Commercial Division’s Supervisor of Women’s Programmes, skunk is a superb dish, "rather like chicken, but more deli-

cate." This delicacy is attained by removing the scent glands as quickly as possible and parboiling the carcase in salty water for 15 minutes before cooking in the ordinary way. It’s in the book! Other recipes suggested in the book (Tropical Cooking, by Gladys R. Graham) are for tasty dishes of turtle, tapir, jaguar, leopard, panther, anteater, puma, otter with noodles, monkey, alligator, iguana, parrot and armadillo. Mrs. Lloyd will talk about some

of them in a programme, Tropical Tit-bits to Titillate Tired Tastes, to be broadcast in Women's Programmes from ail commercial stations in the next few weeks. She promises to give frecipes in detail to anyone possessing the raw materials,