"James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.net> wrote in message
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: 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 :-)
:
Hi James,
the numbers suggest just the settings on the cooker?

Does 'select new-born pigeons weighing 400g' not allow a number of pigeons total
weight 400g?
cheers
Waaza
ps have you ever seen a baby pigeon?