Truffles

The Truffle is a most expensive Vegetable. It belongs to the family of Mushrooms, and is a subterranean production, of a fleshy, fungus structure and roundish figure. Its aroma is particularly marked, and it is much esteemed by epicures, for, when mixed in proper proportions, it adds a zest and flavor to all sauces for fish, filets of beef, turkey, chicken, game and omelets that cannot be found in any other plant in the entire Vegetable kingdom. The name Truffle is supposed to be derived from the French Truffe, or the Spanish Trufa, signifying deceit or imposition, the growth of the plant under ground seeming to accord with the name.