DATES FOR DISHES
"It may not,be-possible to fix bii exact date for the birth of Maids of Honour or Cornish pasties, but that can be done (announces a 'Manchester Guardian' correspondent) in respect of one' now familiar dish—ox-tail' soup. During the Reign of Terror in France many of the nobility' and gentry were reduced to starvation', and beggary. The abattoirs sent their hides fresh ,to the tanners .without removing the; tails, and in cleaning them the tails were thrown away. It happened that a noble beggar, passing a tannery one day, noticed a pile of discarded tails and asked for one, which was willingly given to him. He. took it to his humble lodgings and made what is now famous— the first dish of oxtail soup. Delighted with his success, he told his friends df the good luck he had had, and there was such a demand for ox-tails in a few days that the tanners, scenting, a profitable side-line in business,-put" a substantial price on them. But the oxtail had come to stay, and is with us today." It sounds a slightly tall story —for necessity is a wonderful teacher, and peasants (or-even tanners) went hungry long before nobles lost their, heads or fortunes —but at any rate It is a picturesque invention. " _-^'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 18
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214DATES FOR DISHES Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 18
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