Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Curiosity of Cookery. [ARTICLE]

Curiosity of Cookery.

The following is a copy of the bill of fare of what is called a regular mandarin supper, given by Sir Charles Macdonnel at Hong Kong, in 1867, to the Duke de Penthievre, the Comte Beauvoir, and some other French gentlemen: “Preserved fruits; fish roe in sweet caramel sauce; almonds and raisins; shark fins in gelatinous sauce; cakes of coagulated blood; hashed dog, with lotus sauce; birds’nest soup; lily seed soup; whale nerves, with sweet sauce; Kwal-poh-Hing ducks; sturgeons’ gills in compote; croquettes of fish and rat; shark’s fat soup; stewed sea snails, with tadpoles; sweet dish composed of fins, fruit, ham, almond*, and essences; lotus and almond soup as dessert, with medicated wine and warm arrack. ”