Caviare

ka-ver', a table delicacy made from the roe or eggs of the sturgeon. The center of production is at Astrakhan, Russia, where caviare is prepared in immense quantities from the sturgeon caught in the Volga River. Of late the Lake of the Woods, on the boundary line between Canada and Minnesota, has become an important center of production, a company having practical monopoly of the immense number of sturgeon to be found in that body of water. In preparation the roe is washed in vinegar and dried in the sun, after which it is rubbed with salt and packed in small kegs. See Sturgeon; Isinglass