"FADS" ABOUT FOOD.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3265, 19 December 1881, Page 4

"FADS" ABOUT FOOD.

The controversy about the flavour of the A\istralian frozen meat still continues. A correspondent writing to the Times had the hardihood to assert that all food frozen before eating suffers in taste. This has brought on him a host of counter assertions. The dissentients seem to have the advantage. The whole gist of the thing lies in whether tho meafc or other article of food is frozen immediately after it is killed. Flavour is not really developed until decomposition sets in ; this process of ripening never commences if the food is promptly subjected to a low temperature. The evidence of practical cooks in those countries, such as Canada and Bussia, where pigs come to market like logs of wood, and joints are sawn up like planks, is all to the effect that frozen meat will taste as good as any if properly treated before cooking. In Russia it is soaked for Borne hours in water, and in a cold place only a few degrees above freezing. In Canada it is placed at a distance from a slow fire and allowed to thaw very gradually. Ifc is better still to hang it some daye to ripon, bub in any caso tho ice must

be entirely, although slowly, extracted. This discussion is extremely interesting, and will not, it is to be hoped, end here. The establishment of the fact that frozen is in no wise inferior to other fresh meat is essential to the success of the Australian scheme. The experience of all who have tested it, and the methods by which they have satisfactorily treated the meat, should be made as public as possible. Otherwise the opponents of this excellent undertaking may succeed in strangling it at its birth.—Home News.