The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-27
CHINESE COOKS AND pEDDLERs

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A year in no other place can afford
more amusing incidents than q twelve
month in Utah. Mormonism is the first
object of interest to strangers, but it is
too serious q subject to long yield
amusement, and one soon turns from
its study with loathing to find diversion
and novelty in the incidents occurring
through the Chinese end Indians scat
tered in numbers throughout the Terri
tory.
To use the word Chinese enormously
implies both sexes; there are only men.
Many of these keep tea-stores and
china-shops, but they are principally
engaged in laundrying and gardening
Some few find situations as house-ser-
wants in private families, and most OF
the hotels employ Chinese cooks; but
any hotel engaging them in this eapac-
ity tries to conceal the fact And il
guests catch glimpse of them in the
kitchen, and inquire in what capacity
they serve, the steward probably re-
plies that they are only solutions. The
prejudice against them is so great that
mine host fears to iniure his house bv
acknowledging them to be cooks.
This prejudice is not POLITICAL but
arises from suspicion of their cleanli-
illness.
Ii a Chinaman is well taught in
the start he makes an excellent cook.
With them it is, Like MASTER like
man." if badly trained when first taken
into service the Chinese can never cor
rect the faults they are led into; their
initiative powers depend entirely upon
Arst impressions.
The wife of hotel-keeper in Idaho
went one day into the kitchen to teach
her new Chinese cook how to make GER
tain kind of batter-cakes. The recipe
called for dozen eggs. She broke the
firstinto.the mixture, then the second but
the third was stale, and she dropped ii
into the slop-pail, the Chinaman watch
ing her intently She supplied the
place of the stale egg. broke dozen
into the mixture and had excellent luck
with her batter-cakes The next morn
ing the Chinaman made for breakfast
cakes equally good by her recipe. OF
example, and continued TO ID "a
through the winter. His mistress com
mended his skill and entirely forgot the
stale egg until one morning, passing
through the kitchen before breakfast,
she noticed that zee Sing, making bat
ter-cakes, broke into them one egg.
then two; a third, also good he broke
and threw into the slop-pail. His mis-
tress rebuked his wastefulness, remon-
strated with him and explained that she
had merely thrown away the third egg
when teaching him because it hap
pened to be bad; that the ceremony
was not a part of the recipe; that each
third egg was not necessarily stale.
But zee Sing could not understand it;
example being stronger than precept
he persisted in always throwing away
the third egg. He did more; he would
hold the doomed egg critically for a
moment to his nostriI and then avert
his fat nose with a look of disgust, as
# il had offended by its odor, before he
dropped it, pure and clear, into the
slop-pail. He seemed convinced that
an exact copy of his mistress tactics
upon that occasion was necessary to the
success of the recipe; and this in a place
where eggs sell at Lenten prices the
year round.
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