Mien, Momo (1894)

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ACROSS ASIA ON A BICYCLE:
THE JOURNEY OF TWO AMERICAN STUDENTS
FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO PEKING
by Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr., and William Lewis Sachtleben
New York: The Century Company
1894

   I think it's 1894.  The first page was missing, and the NYPL has an 1894 edition and a 1903 edition.

Pg. 18:  ...ekmek, yaourt, and raisins.
Opp. Pg. 20 caption:  EATING KAISERICHEN (EKMEK) OR BREAD
Pg. 20:  But the worst mixure, perhaps, was the "Bairam soup," which contains over a dozen ingredients, uncluding peas, prunes, walnuts, cherries, dates, white and black beans, apricots, cracked wheat, raisins, etc.--all mixed in cold water.
Pg. 62:  ...ekmek and yaourt (blotting-paper bread and curdled milk).
Pg. 103:  From these he would occasionally fish out with his fingers some choice lamb _kebabh_ or cabbage _dolmah_....
Pg. 105:  ..._inam_, or Persion bakshish....
Pg. 166:  Millet and coarse flour, from which the mien, or dough-strings, are made is the foundation, at least, for more than half the subsistence of the common classes.
(OED has 1934 for "mien," from Webster.  What does the revision have?--ed.)
Pg. 172:  Our fare in China, outside the Gobi district, was far better than in Turkey or Persia, and, for this reason, we were better able to endure the increased hardships.  A plate of sliced meat stewed with vegetables, and served with a piquant sauce, sliced radishes and onions with vinegar, two loaves of Chinese _mo-mo_, or steamed bread, and a pot of tea, would usually cost us about three and one quarter cents apiece.
(OED has 1970 for "momo" dumplings--ed.)

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