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	Hangtown Fry hand cheese hand-formed cookie; hand-shaped cookie handkäse cheese Hangtown Fry Harvard beets Harvey Wallbanger Havarti cheese Definition: This dish is said to have been created during the California Gold Rush in a rowdy burg called Hangtown (now Placerville) because of the town's frequent hangings. It consists of fried breaded oysters cooked together with eggs and fried bacon, rather like an omelet or scramble. --Copyright (c) 1995 by Barron's Educational Series, from The New Food Lover's Companion, Second Edition, by Sharon Tyler Herbst
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