Hello, All!

While trying to find a duck recipe I came upon "Little Ma's
Recipe Corner":
http://www.chinavista.com/culture/cuisine/recipes.html

There are numerous and sometimes unlikely recipes that I have
never seen before but one of them referred to "eight-fold hot"
oil and later said "Reduce the heat to six-fold". Does anyone
know what these terms means? Another recipe was for "new-born"
pigeon and in that one was to select new-born pigeons weighing
400g. Is this perhaps a recipe out of the past for dodo (it
*was* a pigeon) since 400g is about a pound :-)

TIA,


James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland, USA