A Hint To Soyer
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Magrundy says, in his work on Grub, that a Frenchman will “frigazee” a
pair of old boots and make a respectable soup out of an ancient chapeau;
but our friend Perriwinkle affirms that the French ain’t “nowhere,”
after a feat he saw in the kitchen arrangement of a “cheap boarding
house” in the North End:–the landlady made a chowder out of an old
broom mixed with sinders, and after all the boarders had dined upon it
scrumptiously, the remains made broth for the whole family, next day,
besides plenty of fragments left for a poor family! That landlady is
bound– to make Rome howl!