Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 35 | 'Stuffed Liar,' 'Lady's Leg' due for Clarification

tC r IT 9 7 U J IT 9 Stuffed Slurred Liar Ladys Lady s Leg LegI I Due for Clarification 1 CONSTANTINOPLE OPLE Nov Kov 27 AP AP The The oriental mystery pervading pervading per per- the Turkish larder produces such quaintly named dishes as fainting tainting priest stuffed liar and ladys leg is to be clarified by an American food ex ex- ex pert The expert Is Miss liss Sarah Tuck of Springfield Mo who was trained at Harvard university and In Simmons Simmons Simmons Sim Sim- mons Technology school Boston She has Inaugurated inaugurated- at the Stamboul Stamboul Stamboul Stam- Stam boul Normal ormal school Turkeys Turkey's first course in home economics economiC whereby Turkeys Turkey's future teachers will spread American methods of housekeeping cookery and thrift throughout An An- atolia The governments government's Interest Is shown in a speech by by President Mustapha Kemal Pasha before th the Association Association- of Restaurateurs in which he attacked the national habit hab hab- it of serving a dozen courses at each meal meal- mealand and nd the profligate use of materials ma ma- in the concoction of each dish ish A westerner Is likely to be overcome overcome over oyer- come In translating a Turkish menu when he finds he is expected to partake of cit dishes such as tho those thoe e mentioned above and others others' named pleased sultan viziers fingers and Noahs oah's ark Compared with these the inevitable pilaf a staple rice dish is simple even though served in nine fifty-nine varieties The national entry called pleased sultan dates from the time of Abdul Hamid II known as the Red Sultan because of the massacres perpetrated under his regime Suffering Suffering Suf Sut- fering gastronomic ennui on one oc occasion occasion oc- oc casion the sultan ord ordered red his ch chef to Invent a dish that would tickle the royal pal palate te The rhe chef chet aware that his life life hung In the balance of his ladle seized an egg plant from which he made a sauce This he poured oyer over mincemeat cooked In oil CLEANED PLATTER The sultan cleaned the platter and smiled hence the name of the dish When the republic was declared however the name name was vas ordered changed on the he restaurant menus to pleased republic Fainting priest is composed of eggplant stuffed with stone pine- pine nuts and samples of nearly every vegetable ble in the garden the whole floating In a sea of olive oil This dish owes its origin to the spendthrift spendthrift spendthrift spend spend- thrift wife wiCe of a Turkish priest who use used a gallon of oil which her husband husband husband hus hus- band had bought for fot the winters winter's use When Informed th that Invention of the dish had absorbed the entire stock the priest fainted Ladys leg Is nothing more than spicy meat balls bails fried in egg yolks Rice balls wrapped in grape leaves and cooked in the inevitable oil are called stuffed liars because because because be be- cause there is no meat within viziers fingers are hard white pastries and commemorate commemorate com corn of the inflexible power of the former rulers Noahs Noah's ark arlt is turkeys turkey's pet des des- sert It is made of the ten Ingredients ingredients ingredients ingre Ingre- including cereals nuts and raisins which Turkish tradition says Noah Koah found rem remaining airing in the ark when the waters subsided and threw Into one dish which was eaten eaten eaten eat eat- en to celebrate deliverance from the flood