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The Delmonico Cook Book

by Alessandro Filippini

1702 of 1887 · Contents · Download EPUB

Corea Menu.

Cha.

Tea.

Fou Yoon An.

Finely Chopped Ham, with Eggs.

Whey Sum.

Bamboo Shoots, with Mushrooms and Bêche-de-mer Fish.

Chow Kai Goot.

Dice-shaped Spring Chicken-bones, Served in Sweetmeat Pickles.

Chow Lok Zeow.

Finely Sliced Green Peppers, Fried with Cut Beef and Celery.

Gow Jee.

Finely Chopped, Spiced Pork, Wrapped in Thin Dough, then Steamed.

Chow Mien.

A Kind of Boiled Macaroni, Fried with Thin Strips of Chicken, Pork, Mushrooms, and Celery.

Bing Lon.

Betel-nuts Preserved in Rock Candy.

Cha.

Tea.

Sam Soo.

Rice Liquor.

In Corea Chinese fashions are very closely followed. Greasy messes and appetite-destroying smells are their most characteristic features. The food is always conveyed to the mouth by the aid of “chop sticks,” and during the progress of a meal the mind becomes catered to by an animated conversation.

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