What Do You Think?
Dear Aunt Daisy, Here is a recipe I have never seen in your page of The Listener, Take 1 Ib. of huhus (say 30, about 3 inches long), newly caught, ex kahikatea or matai for flavour, add 2 oz, of macaroni (steeped), 42 teaspoon of mustard, pepper and salt to taste, white of 1 egg, 1 egg-cup of fresh cream. Stew slowly for not more than 15 minutes. Serve hot. Elijah’s "locusts and wild honey" were not in it with this dish, neither is our chief delicacy whitebait, "heads, eyes, tails. scales and all." I have seen "bushies" take huhus by the handful, ex log, and toss them into their mouths. That I have never tried, even as I have never tried to eat a handful of raw whitebait, or raw shrimps. Of course, raw oysters is another matter! This morning I found a huhu in my firewood, the first I have seen for years. You can’t cook one huhu. so I called the 3 cats. None would look at it. So I caught one up and put the huhu in its mouth. It spat the huhu out 3 times. Then I broke it on the back teeth of the cat. Hi presto! It was chewed with gusto! That cat is still following me for another huhu, 1.0 p.m. "Old Bushie," Matakana. Are you really serious, "Old Bushie’’? The name "Otahuhu" is made up trom the words "ota" (to eat) and "huhu" (a grub),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 33
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248What Do You Think? New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 33
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