The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living
July 27th : FROGS
Englishmen have a national distate to these delicious little fellows, considering them as the favourite dish of our French neighbours, who, it has been said and sung, prefer a fricassee of Grenouilles to “Rost bif à la G-dam.” Such a notion should be combatted.
With all due reverence for the noble sirloin, I cannot but think that the hind legs of some half dozen good-sized frogs, taken out of a fine crystal pool, fried with an abundance of cream and parsley, well crisped, would make a convert of the most bigoted John Bull, provided you did not tell him the name of the dish until he had accustomed himself to its flavour.