Beggar's Chicken (???) Ingredients : 1 whole chicken, about 2kg 5-6 dried mushroom, soaked till soft and diced thickly 1 large carrot, diced thickly 1 Tablespoon kei chi 5 shallots, sliced thickly 3 garlic, sliced thickly 1 pce lotus leaf, soaked in warm water till soft 1 large pce heavy-duty aluminium foil (or 2 large pieces regular foil) Marinade : 1 Tbsp oyster sauce 1 Tbsp black soya sauce 1 Tbsp shiaoxing wine 2 tsp sesame oil Seasoning : 1 tbsp light soy sauce 1 tbsp sugar 1 tbsp shiaoxing wine 1/4 tsp salt dash of dark soy sauce 2 tsp sesame oil Dough : 3 cups plain flour 1 cup coarse salt 1-11/2 cups water Method : (1) Rub chicken all over with the marinade and leave in fridge overnight (2) In a pan, fry shallots and garlic in a bit of oil until fragrant (3) Add in the mushrooms, carrots and kei chi (4) Add in the seasoning and fry for a minute or so. Dish out and let cool (5) Make your dough : Add flour and salt in a large bowl. Add 1 cup of water and mix until a dough forms. Add more water if needed until you get a workable dough (6) Using a rolling pin, roll out the dough as large as you need so it completely covers the entire chicken (7) Place the aluminium foil ontop of the dough and the lotus leaf on top of the foil (8) Place the marinated chicken in the middle of the lotus leaf. Stuff it with the cooled stuffing (9) Wrap the chicken up first with the lotus leaf, followed by the aluminum foil. Make sure the foil is sealed as tightly as possible. Then wrap the dough all around it, again ensuring it is sealed tight (10) Bake in a preheated 220?C oven for 1 hour 15 mins (11) Reduce heat to 180?C and bake for another 2 hours (12) Crack open the hardened dough, and serve. Make sure not to lose any of the delicious gravy within the package

Inscription. To this building in 1862 was brought the machinery of the armory established in New Orleans at the outbreak of the War by Ferdinand W.C. and Francis L. Cook, recent English immigrants, the former a skilled engineer for the manufacture of Enfield rifles, bayonets and cavalry horse shoes. Said to be the largest and most efficient private armory in the Confederacy. It produced a rifle declared by an ordnance officer to be "superior to any that I have seen of Southern manufacture." Under contract to supply 30,000 rifles to the Confederate Army the armory operated until its employees, organized as a reserve battalion under Major Ferdinand and Captain Francis Cook, were in 1864 called to active duty upon the approach of Sherman's army. The battalion took part in the battles of Griswoldville, Grahamville, Honey Hill and Savannah where Major. Cook was killed. After Grisoldville Gen. P.J. Phillips reported that Maj. Cook and his men "participated fully in the action, deported themselves gallantly and suffered much from wounds and death." Leased by the Con- federacy in 1865 the armory was operated until the close of the War. The property was bought by the Athens Manufacturing Co. in 1870.