San Char Go
Origin: Chicago, Illinois
Source: Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), 1914
Ingredients
- red Chinese dates
- powdered sugar
- gelatine
Instructions
- Mash the red Chinese dates to a pulp.
- Mix the pulp with powdered sugar and gelatine.
- Beat the mixture into a paste.
- Roll the paste into sheets as thin as paper.
- Spread the sheets in the sun to dry until crisp.
- Cut the dried sheets into squares of six by four inches.
- Wrap each square in waxed paper and pack in bundles.