The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-03-18
4 CHINESE DINNER.
Appetisins Description of q Meal Served /;
the House of Pekin Magnate.

ApPetazan6 description of q Meal Served
the House Of Pekin Magnate.
A member of a Bremen trading-hous,
lately had the honor of taking dinnel
with a Chinese magnate in Pekin, ano
has given an appetizing description 0
the feast. The table was set will
twenty-five dishes and was Lit with ten
large lanterns. Instead OF being served
in courses, the dishes were brought in
n at a time and passed to the guests
severally, beginning with the mo-
distinguished or with. the Oldest. The
merchant has given a list of them, with
his comments, as follows: l. Doves
with mushrooms and split bamboo
sprouts-delicious. 2. Fat pork fritters
Cor something like fritters)-splendid.
5. Pigeons eggs in meat broth, the
whites hard but transparent-very
good. 4. Chinese birds nests with
ham-chips and bamboo sprouts Ga
mucilaginous dish)-excel1ent. s..
Poultry, different kinds, cooked with
mushrooms and bamboo sprouts-very
agreeable. 6. Duck with bamboo and
lotus fruits, the fruits tasting and look
ing like an acorn without its cup
tolerably good. z. Hogs liver fred in
castor-oil-bad. s. A Japanese dish of
mussels with maladorous Goldfish and
Uncomfortable. 9. Sea crabs tails
cooked in castor-oil, with bits of bam-
boo and ham-would have been pala-
table but for the wrecthed oil. 10. A
star made of pieces of fowl, bacon and
dove, covered with white of egg-very
juicy. IL. Slices of sea-fish and sharks
fins, with bamboo and mushrooms
it was hard to tell what kind of
o dish it was, but it was
rather bad than good. IL:
Giblets of poultry with morels-the
norels helped the giblets down. 10.
Ham and cabbage-not particularly
good. IA. Hams of sucking pigs cooked
in their own juice. A pause now en-
sued, during which pipes and tobacco
were brought in. The pipes held about
a thimbleful of tobacco-enough for
two or three withstand we were kept
busy filing and lighting them. Is.
Land-turtles with their eggs in CASTOR
oil-abominable. 16. Ends of ham
good. IL. Breasts of ham with our cab
bage-no d~elicacy. 10. Stale eggs
(these eggs have been kept one month
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The white looked like burnt sugar and
were transparent. The yolks had a
greenish color, and the embryos ap-
peared dark, rolled together and per-
fectly recognizable-a terrible dish.
Dessert: Conserve of sitzon, a red fruit
that looks like a shadberrv. and tastes
like a kind of currant-good. Dark
green fruits having oval seeds like those
of the plum, preserved in brandy-good.
Crabs tails cooked in c~astor-oi1. A
green, oval fruit with a long, hard seed,
resembling a large green olive, but
sharp and soul and disagreeable 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 Chinese fruits, having a
| white flesh with the taste of the bes
| grapes-excellent. Shaddocks man.
DARN oranges-good. The only drinks
were tea, very weak and without sugar
and samion, a rice-wine, which is
drunk hot like tea, and is wretched
stuff.-Popular Science Monthly.