German paste

English Noun - en archaic A prepared food for caged birds, consisting of eggs, peasemeal, etc. en 1901 The Zoologist 4th series, vol 5 718 John Henry Gurney Ornithological notes from Norfolk 128/129 With great care it (a young woodpecker) was fed, and eventually reared on such soft food as liver (generally chopped up), German-paste, and fruit not too hard, and became very tame, readily coming to the hand which fed it, darting out its long tongue directly anything was presented, as well as drinking with it, and climbing up me as if I was a tree. Anagrams en aaeegmnprst parasegment