Recipe - Basic Soup With Pork (Quick Cooking)

One fourth pound Lean pork
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 teaspoon Sugar
One half teaspoon Salt
2 (up to)
3 Scallion stalks
6 cup Stock (see recipe)

1. Slice pork thin. Combine soy sauce, sugar and salt. Add to pork and
toss. Let stand half an hour, turning meat occasionally.

2. Meanwhile bring stock to a boil. Cut scallion stalks in 2inch
sections, then add. Simmer, covered, 3 to 4 minutes.

3. Add pork and simmer, covered, 5 minutes more. Skim surface to clear.

VARIATIONS: For the scallions, substitute 6 tablespoons pickled
vegetables, shredded and drained. Simmer, covered, 2 minutes. Then pick up
step 3, adding a few drops of sesame oil at the very end.

After step 3, add any of the following vegetables and simmer until done:

2 Cucumbers, peeled or unpeeled, cut or sliced up thin

12 radishes, unpeeled and cut or sliced up thin (simmer uncovered)

1 large bamboo shoot and 8 water chestnuts, both cut or sliced up thin

1 Cup fresh green peas; and One half pound spinach, cut in 2inch sections
(simmer uncovered )

3 dried black mushrooms (soaked), cut in strips; and One fourth pound
beansprouts

From The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, ISBN 0517658704. Downloaded
from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.