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Chinese cook book

Chapter 26: FREE ADVICE
By Vernon Galster
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About This Book

A practical manual provides straightforward, American-accessible recipes and techniques for preparing Chinese-style dishes at home, with detailed ingredient lists, step-by-step cooking directions, and variations for meats and vegetables. It covers several chop suey and chow mein preparations, eggs fo yung, bird’s nest soup, war mein, and rice cooked in a traditional method, and explains the use of imported flavoring sauces, mushrooms, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots. Emphasis falls on high-heat wok-style cooking, cornstarch thickening, serving suggestions, and adapting recipes for different tastes and available supplies.

Instructions for Serving a Dinner in Complete Chinese Style Called “Dinner of China”

(For Four Plates)
GAI GUNG MAIN
(Chicken Soup with Noodles)
FO YOUNG DON
(Eggs in Fo Young Style)
TONG YUN CHOP SUEY
(Chinese Chop Suey)
LI CHEE
(Li Chee Nuts)
CANTON OR OOLONG CHAR YET WOO
(Pot of Canton or Oolong Tea)

CHICKEN SOUP WITH NOODLES. Follow out the recipe for making Yet Ca Mein, but omit the garnish entirely. See page 5 for recipe for Yet Ca Mein.

EGGS IN FO YOUNG STYLE. See page 5 for recipe for Eggs Fo Young. Fry 8 cakes from the amount of batter and serve two for each portion. Serve on the oblong flat Chop Suey dishes.

CHINESE CHOP SUEY. See page 2 for instructions for cooking. Serve this course with a bowl of rice cooked Chinese style. Use the oblong Chop Suey dishes for serving.

LI CHEE NUTS. This desert is served on any small fancy dish.

CANTON OR OOLONG TEA. In steeping Chinese tea, allow it to steep considerably longer than ordinary tea, in fact, bringing it to a boil will not impair the flavor. A pot of this tea should be served with the first course. The small Chinese tea cups are used and individual Chinese tea pots (red earthenware) are the correct thing.

FREE ADVICE

Should you require any further information pertaining to the cooking of these foods; or should the results you secure not be absolutely satisfactory to you, you are requested to write the author of this book, who invites your correspondence on any matter of this kind, and will gladly help you to remedy your difficulty by giving you FREE ADVICE.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  • Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.