Mooncakes containing taro paste and pineapple, which were considered novelty items at their time of invention have in recent years become commonplace items.

Mooncakes are usually eaten in small wedges accompanied by Chinese tea.

* Tender: Mooncakes from certain provinces of China are often made to be tender rather than flaky or chewy.

Mooncakes are offered between friends or on family gatherings while celebrating the festival.

Mooncakes are typically round but smaller, with less elaborate fillings.

In Vietnam, Mooncakes are typically square rather than round, though round ones do exist.

Mooncakes are offered between friends or on family gatherings while celebrating the festival.

Mooncakes are considered a delicacy as production is labor-intensive and few people make them at home.

Mooncakes in Japan are known as, a direct translation of the Chinese name.

* Mooncakes (; yùe bĭng ): A baked pastry consisting of thin dough surrounding a filling.

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

Actually, two flags were used at the mansion -- a small one on rainy days, and a big one on bright days.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

Ballets were used in opera from its beginning.

Visual and operable training aids developed by the Medical Illustration Service, were used in support of Army Medical Service mass casualty exercises.

In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.

Previously, FN actions were used for the larger cartridges.

Opaque cantaloupe and transparent wood brown were used.

Stainless steel screws were used to minimize corrosion stains.

A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.

These cells were used rather than square Pyrex tubing because of the tendency of the latter to shatter when thawing frozen carbon tetrachloride.

Two types of light source were used, a thousand watt projection lamp and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc.

Three of the anti-Rh sera used were taken from recently sensitized individuals.

In several instances group O cells were also used as controls.

The red cells were used within 2 days after donation and were washed with large amounts of saline before use.

Homozygous and heterozygous Af cells, Af and homozygous and heterozygous Af cells were used to test each sample ; ;

The saline tubes were saved and used for the indirect Coombs test in the following manner.

The anti-human sera used were prepared by injecting whole human serum into rabbits.

The red cells for the Rh antibody tests were used within 3 days after drawing except for the Af cells, which had been glycerolized and stored at -20-degrees-C for approximately 1 year.

A flow rate of 72 Af was used and 12 ml fractions were collected.

When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.

He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

The subjects for this study were randomly selected from stratified areas of the distribution, one-third as underachievers, one-third medium, and one-third over-achievers.

From time to time the medium mentions other people `` around him '', who were `` on the other side '', and reports what they are saying.

For their purposes, oxygen and other gases were not drawn from the surrounding atmosphere through the medium of lungs but sustained artificially by solution in their shells.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

Dürer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations, especially in printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were predominately in private collections located in only a few cities.

In 1512 / 13 his three criteria were function (' Nutz '), naïve approval (' Wohlgefallen ') and the happy medium (' Mittelmass ').

They were generally printed on one side of a medium to large sheet of poor quality paper.

By 1900, most of the industrializing nations were on some form of gold standard, with paper notes and silver coins constituting the circulating medium.

They were medium rather than heavy cavalry, meaning that they were better suited to be scouts, skirmishers, and pursuers rather than front line fighters.

After 1854 extreme clippers were replaced in American shipbuilding yards by medium clippers.

Mediaite columnist Paul Levinson noted that " The Monkees were the first example of something created in a medium – in this case, a rock group on television – that jumped off the screen to have big impact in the real world.

The speed of light and other EMR predicted by Maxwell's equations did not appear unless the equations were modified in a way first suggested by FitzGerald and Lorentz ( see history of special relativity ), or else otherwise it would depend on the speed of observer relative to the " medium " ( called luminiferous aether ) which supposedly " carried " the electromagnetic wave ( in a manner analogous to the way air carries sound waves ).

Larger amounts of radioactive material were later isolated from coral debris of the atoll, which were delivered to the U. S. The separation of suspected new elements was carried out in the presence of a citric acid / ammonium buffer solution in a weakly acidic medium ( pH ≈ 3. 5 ), using ion exchange at elevated temperatures ; fewer than 200 atoms of einsteinium were recovered in the end.

As in acid and basic medium, electrons which were used to compensate oxidation changes are multiplied to opposite half reactions, thus solving the equation.

The late ' 20s were full of static, stagey talkies as artists in front of and behind the camera struggled with the stringent limitations of the early sound equipment and their own uncertainty as to how to utilize the new medium.

These were larger, usually twin-engined aircraft, sometimes adaptations of light or medium bomber types.

The establishment of Georgian architecture, and the Georgian styles of design more generally, were to a large degree aided by the fact that, unlike earlier styles which were primarily disseminated among craftsmen through the direct experience of the apprenticeship system, Georgian was also spread through the new medium of inexpensive suites of engravings.

By 407 there were no new Roman coins going into circulation, and by 430 it is likely that coinage as a medium of exchange had been abandoned.

Machines such as the Z3, the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, the Colossus computers, and the ENIAC were built by hand using circuits containing relays or valves ( vacuum tubes ), and often used punched cards or punched paper tape for input and as the main ( non-volatile ) storage medium.

During the Ancient and Middle Ages Infantry were categorized by the types of weapons and armor they used, such as heavy, medium, and light infantry.