One other honey we must mention is the aromatic sourwood from the great Smoky Mountains, not overly sweet but with distinctive flavor that only the mountain wild flowers can give. This is a handsome pack in 3-pound jars with long rods of the comb, price $2.15. All the other honeys are in pound jars, price range 55 to 75 cents. If ordered by mail, add the postage please.
Before the war Honey House had around two hundred honeys; today they offer fewer than thirty kinds, but by summer's end Miss Hamper thinks she will have over a hundred. Imports are now mostly from countries to the south. Australia is keeping her honeys at home, ditto for France. No heather honey from Scotland or pine honey from Switzerland. But a shipment of Lake Como honey has come in from Italy. It's the state honeys which Miss Hamper hopes to bring into town to swell her collection. If there is a special honey you have been hankering to try, write Honey House, 671 Lexington Avenue. If it isn't in now, it should be before long.
Thirst-inspiring appetizer is Espy's Oyster Herb Pate, a smooth mixture, easy-spreading, made with smoked oysters, these blended with mushrooms, onions, tarragon, capers, then sherry to sharpen the flavor; other zesters are lemon juice and Worcestershire, the 3-ounce jar 89 cents at Hammacher, Schlemmer, 145 East 57th Street.
Zombie its name—a rum drink to chew! A small but engaging excitement to pass with ice cream, a confection of sorts made of coconut, made potent of rum, baked to a delicate tan. Allergic to wheat? No flour used in a Zombie, coconut mostly with sugar and syrup, egg white holds it together. Each cake but two bites, little but terrific! The pound tins around $1.50 sell at Charles and Company, 340 Madison Avenue, and Seven Park Market, 107 East 34th Street.
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