 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 774 pages
...more delicate, more succulent, and bitter tasted than that of the tame turkey: they are in the liest order late in the autumn, or in the beginning of winter. The Indians value this fowl so highly, when roasted, that they call it "the white man's dish," and present it to strangers... | |
 | Thomas Farrington De Voe - 1867 - 488 pages
...interesting matter of all kinds.— EDITOR. WILD TURKEY. more succulent, and better, or more gamey tasted than that of the tame turkey. They are in the best condition in the month of November. When found in our markets they have all their feathers on. The... | |
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... proportion to the abundance or scarcity of food, and its good or bad quality, they are small or large, meagre or fat, and of an excellent or indifferent flavour : in general, however, their flesh is more delicate, more succulent, and better tasted... 
