Section IV
Trying Your Hand


Applied Writing
Read and Simulate

Read the following two samples of recipes and learn to write your own.
Sample 1


Apple and Walnut Muffin (松糕)
  Ingredients:
  1 egg, beaten
  1/4 cup of orange juice
  3/4 cup of milk
  1 apple, grated (擦碎的)
  2 teaspoons of oil
  1/4 cup of sugar
  1 cup self-raising flour (自发粉)
  1 cup of whole meal (全麦粉) self-raising flour
  1/2 chopped walnuts

  Instructions:
  Mix egg, orange juice, milk, apple, oil and sugar.     
Combine
  flour, and walnuts. Gently fold in the first mixture. Spoon
  into lightly greased muffin pans and baked (烘烤) at 200℃
  for 25 minutes.

Sample 2


Tomatoes with Mushrooms (Salad)
Materials:
  500g tomatoes
  450g mushroom

  Instructions:
    Wash the mushrooms and stir-fry slightly in 40% heated
oil.
  Add cooking wine, soy sauce (酱油), sugar, vegetable soup
  and MSG (味精). Bring to a boil, thicken with cornstarch (淀
粉)
  and pour over the sliced tomatoes.


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Answer:

Fish Head in Bean Curd (豆腐) Soup
  Materials:
  Two fish heads
  50g mushrooms
  100g bean curd
  Some Chinese onion, ginger, minced garlic
  A little chilly sauce,soy sauce,salt,MGS, pepper,and cooking
  wine

  Preparations:
  Deep-fry the fish heads.
  Add chilly sauce, minced garlic and soup, salt, MSG, pepper
  and cooking wine.
  When the fish heads are done, add Chinese onion, ginger, bring
  to a boil, and let thicken.
  Serve hot.

Applied Writing
Simulate and Create (1)

Question 1: Translate the recipe into Chinese.

Fish Flavored Eggplant
  Materials:
  250g eggplant
  50g chili bean sauce

  Preparations:
  Peel and score the eggplant, cut into chunks and deep-fry
  till soft, remove. Fry chili bean sauce till the flavor smells
good.
  Add finely chopped scallion and ginger.Put in white
sugar,soy
  sauce, vinegar, clear soup and the eggplants. Thicken with
  cornstarch mixture.

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Answer:

鱼香茄子
原 料: 茄子250克; 辣椒豆瓣酱50克
  制 法: 茄子去皮剞上刀纹,切块后用油炸软;另起锅下底油炒豆瓣酱,炒香后加葱、姜、蒜末,放白糖、酱油、醋、清汤,放入炸好的茄子,收干汁后,用水淀粉勾芡即可。

 

Applied Writing
Simulate and Create (2)
Question 2: Write an English recipe according to the Chinese version.

 

圣诞蛋糕
  

用料:
  一磅面粉,半磅砂糖,半磅奶油,半磅什锦水果,两杯牛奶,三只鸡蛋,半磅柠檬汁,两茶羹苏打粉。
烹饪方法:
  将鸡蛋打散,与面粉、奶油和砂糖混合在一起搅匀,倒入什锦水果、牛奶、柠檬汁和苏打粉,将它们揉成一个面团。将面团放入烤炉烘制一小时:香喷喷的圣诞蛋糕就做好了!


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Answer:

A Christmas cake
Ingredients:
1lb flour, 1/2 lb sugar, 1/2 lb butter, 1/2 lb mixed fruit,
2 cups of milk, 3 eggs, 1/2 lb orange juice,
2 tsp baking soda.
Instructions:
Beat the egg, mix flour, butter and sugars. Put fruit, milk,
orange juice and baking soda into them and mix well into a
dough, put the dough in the oven and bake for one hour. Then
the cake is done!