The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-06-23
A CHINESE

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A member Of Bremen trading
house lately had the honor Of taking
dinner with a Chinese magnate in
Pekin, and has given an appetizing
description of the feast. The table
vas set with twenty-five dishes and
was lit with ten large lanterns. In
stead of being served in courses, the
dishes were brought in one at a time
and passed to the guests severally,
beginning with the most distin-
guished or with the Oldest. The
merchant has given a list OF them
with his comments, as follows: -
1. Doves with mushrooms and
split bamboo sprouts; delicious.
2. Fat pork fritters Cor something
like fritters) splendid. '..44 s-1"4
3. Pigeon'se eggs in meat broth, the
whites hard but transparent; very
good. eaSs. eroea.2 @f.I <@aE
4. Chinese birds nests with ham
chips and bamboo sprouts Ga mucil-
aginous dish); excellent. gdL-
5. Poultry, different kinds, cook
ed with mushrooms and bamboo
sprouts; very agreeable. 81 - 81
6. Duck with bamboo and lotus
fruits, the fruits looking and tasting
like an acorn without it's cup; tolera-
bly, good. .aaeal uf @ s
Z. Hogs liver fried in castor oil;
bad. un .f.-# a:
8. Japanese dish of mussels with
malodorous Goldfish and bacon; hor-
rible. 4aTe .f..sr s.
9. Sea crabs tails, cooked in cas-
tor oil, with bits of bamboo and
ham; would have been palatable but
for the wretched oil.
10. A star made Of pieces Of fowl,
bacon and dove, covered with white
of egg; very juicy. 4 1aa
II. Slices of sea-fsh and sharks
fins with bamboo and mushrooms;
it was hard to tell what kind Of a
dish it was, but it "a rather bad
than good.
II. Giblets of poultry with morels;
the morels helped the giblets down.
ID. Ham and cabbage; not par
ticularly good. ~.
IA. Hams of sucking pigs cooked
in their own juice.
A pause now ensued, during which
pipes and tobacco were brought in.
The pipes held about a thimbIeful Of
tobacco, enough for two or three
whiffs, and we were kept busy filling
and lighting them.
Is. Land turtles with their eggs
in castor oil; abominable.
Is. Ends Of hams; good.
II. Breasts of ham with sour cab
bage; no delicacy.
Is. Stale eggs (these eggs have
been kept one month in salt and two
months in moist oarth); the whites
looked like burnt sugar, and We're
transparent. The yolks had a green
ish color, and the embryos appeared
dark, rolled together and perfectly
recognizable a terrible dish. 90
Dessert: Conserve of ~sitzon, a red
fruit that looks like a shadberry and
tastes like a currant; good. Crabs
tails cooked in castor oil. A green,
oval fruit, with a long, hard seed.
resembling a large green olive, but
sharp and sour and d~isagreeable to
the European taste. Light cakes;
very fine. Nuts, almonds and castor
oil seeds roasted and candied with
sugar; good, even to the castor oil
seeds.
Macaroni with sesame-seeds and
three cornered cakes covered with
castor oil seeds; passable. Various
bonbons, very moderate; baked
lichis. The lichi is the finest of Chi
nese' fruits, having a white flesh with
the taste Of the best grapes; excel
lent. Shaddocks, mandarin, oranges;
good. The only drinks were tea, very
weak and without sugar, and samion,
a rice-wine, which is drunk like tea,
and is a wretched stuf.-Popular
Science Monthly.
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