Recipe - Hot Orange Soup With Wafers

5 cup Water
Three fourths cup Rock sugar
4 cup Fresh orange juice
1 tablespoon Preserved ginger, in syrup
3 tablespoon Cornstarch paste
6 Thin slices of orange
6 Thin slices of lime
6 Maraschino cherries
6 Mint leaves
12 Coconut (or vanilla) cream
wafers

Hot orange soup from China is unlike orange juice or
soda pop. Preparation: Squeeze orange juice, strain.
Break up rock sugar. Mince preserved ginger.
Cooking: Combine water and rock sugar; bring to boil.
When rock sugar is dissolved, add orange juice and
cornstarch paste; stir. Cornstarch paste should give
soup a light body. Pour into individual warmed bowls;
add preserved ginger to each serving. Float orange
and lime slice and a cherry; garnish with mint leaf.
Serve with wafers.

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