moose muffle

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the nose and upper lip of the moose used as food, considered a delicacy.

Quotations

1872

The verdict was favourable throughout; the [beaver] meat tender, though dry, the liver a delicious morsel, and the tail superior to moose-muffle.

1873

No more dog-driving . . . nothing but endless wood buffalo steaks, fried onions, moose moufle . . . rest and sleep.

1950

[She] was a large handsome woman . . . famous for her moose muffle soup, which was so good that some of it was exported to England.