Recipe - Beef And Lotus Root Soup

1 pound Short ribs of beef
1 pound Fresh lotus root
6 Chinese red dates
6 cup Water
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
1 teaspoon Salt

1. Chop beef ribs in 11/2inch sections. Peel lotus root; cut in
1/4inch slices.

2. Place beef and lotus root in a saucepan with red dates and cold
water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat at once, skim surface to clear, then
simmer, covered, 45 minutes.

3. Stir in soy sauce and salt. Simmer another minute.

VARIATION: Add with beef, etc., any or all of the following: 1 leek
stalk, cut in sections; 2 slices fresh ginger root; 1 piece dried tangerine
peel (soaked).

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