Subj : 1st US Chinese Restauran
To   : All
From : Dave Drum
Date : Thu Aug 25 2022 19:08:02

I subscribe to the "Inside History" newsletter put out by the Smithsonian
Institute. Just learned an amazing fact about the 1st Chinese Restaurant 
in the US. (Which is still going strong in Butte Montana.

Here's a Tin Yurl to the article - https://tinyurl.com/ist-CHINESE

And a recipe:

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      Title: Dezhou Braised Chicken
 Categories: Poultry, Vegetables, Herbs, Chilies
      Yield: 2 servings

      1 kg Whole chicken
     30 g  Green onions
     30 g  Ginger
     20 g  Salt
     20 g  Soy sauce
     15 g  Oil consumption
     20 g  Cooking wine
     10 g  Honey
      1    Cinnamon stick
      1    Lemongrass
      1    Grass fruit (Cao Guo)
      1    Bai Kou (White Cardamom)
      5 g  Dried tangerine peel
      2 g  Cloves
      4    Fragrant leaves
      1    Galangal
      3    Shannai (Resurrection lily)
      2    Star anise
      2    Angelica root
     10 g  Peppercorns
     10 g  Dried chile

  Clean the chicken first, take out the excess chicken
  fat, take out the trachea and esophagus, remove the
  chicken butt, puncture the chicken eyes, and clean the
  chicken.

  Pass the chicken wing through the mouth, wrap the other
  chicken wing around the neck, stuff the chicken feet
  into the chicken stomach, and fix the chicken body.

  Spread the chicken body evenly with honey or maltose.

  Roast the meat in a pot, and fry the chicken when the
  oil temperature rises. It is best to fry it (the shape
  is better), and fry it until golden brown.

  Stir-fry the spices to make it easier to taste.

  It is best to use old soup or chicken soup to marinate,
  add salt, soy sauce, oil consumption, cooking wine, must
  enlarge onion, ginger, add chicken and spices, marinate
  for 2 hours, after cooking, soak the chicken in the
  marinade for half Hours are more delicious. Such a
  delicious Dezhou Braised Chicken is finished.

  BY: Zang Daole

  RECIPE FROM: https://www.cnfooood.net

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

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