Interspersed with the recipes and seasonal lists are adverts for Liebig Company products: Oxo “fluid beef” (“Energy without Waiting”) and Fray Bentos canned goods (“Always Ready, Always Acceptable”).There is no mincing words:
Friday, August 31, 2012
"Extractum carnis"
At the FT, Polly Russell on the history of Lemco "liquid beef" (FT site registration required), with special emphasis on Eva Tuite's Lemco-inspired recipe book:
This is delightful, thanks! (I'm reminded of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bovril_poster_c1900.jpg -- I think I first learned about all of this indirectly b'se of that MacNeice poem, http://books.google.com/books?id=iH0OAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA130&dq=%22upon%20the%20decks%20they%20take%20beef%20tea%22&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=%22upon%20the%20decks%20they%20take%20beef%20tea%22&f=false )
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