DC. wrote on Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:18:19 +0100:

D> "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.net> wrote
D> in message ...
D> <snip>
??>> 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?

D> well if you tell us which recipe it's taken from, we might
D> be able to help. The number 8 has a number of references in
D> Chinese.

I'd half guessed later that "new-born" might be a bad
translation of squab :-). The recipe is quite short and appears
at the URL I gave.

Braised Fungus


Materials:
750g fungus
100g winter bamboo shoots
15g fresh garlic
10g scallion
10g garlic slices

Preparations:
1.. Rinse the fungus, stir-fry in 8-fold hot oil with
scallion knots and ginger, simmer for 10 minutes.
2.. Put some oil in the wok, when the oil is 6-fold
hot, drop in winter bamboo shoots, stir-fry till the shoots turn
slightly yellow, drop in the fungus and simmer for a while, add
seasonings, thicken with cornstarch solution.


James Silverton.