EATING OF ANCIENT FARE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 192, 15 August 1931, Page 19 (Supplement)

EATING OF ANCIENT FARE

BREAD 3000 YEARS OLD. IAI l'l.l.ti FROM I'OMl'MH’b RUINS. A wedding cake, 64 years old, that has outlived by many years tho bride fo‘- whom it was made, is to find a resting place in the State Museum of Missouri. That is probably the best place for it, yet it might have been eaten with relish if an American precedent of some years ago had been followed. At a golden-wedding banquet at Jiollyi wood, a cake 50 years old ivas eaten ’ and enjoyed by a company that in- ■ eluded the couple for whose marriage it hud been prepared. The record in the eating of ancient fare is probably held by the Brussels antiquary who, some years before the war, incited several of his collcngi.es to a remarkable feast. 'l’he bread at this banquet was made from wheat found in one of the Pyramids, and believed to be 3000 year. old. It was spread with butter made in the reign of Queen Elizabeth—at least, so it is said in the Manchester Guardian. The wine served was centuries old, and ha I be< a recovered from a vault in Corinth. Included in the bill of fare, 100. were apples that had been found among the ruins of Pompeii. Some member., of the Zoological Society of Ireland once had the temerity to sample eggs that, had been brought ; from China 50 years previously, and were found to be quite good and of delicate flavour—in parts. There is the instance, too of the members of the Leeds municipal museum who ate with satisfaction a quantity of tinned food that had been taken out by Sir John Franklin on his first expedition in J 845 in search of tho North-West Passage, and recovered by one of the unsuccess- > ful rescue parties.