Recipe - Red-Cooked Duck With Pork And Chestnuts

4 (up to)
6 Dried black mushrooms
One half pound Chestnuts
1 Duck; 3 to 4 pounds
One half pound Lean pork
1 Scallion stalk
2 Or
3 sl Fresh ginger root
1 cup Soy sauce
4 cup Water

1. Soak dried mushroons. Blanch and shell chestnuts.

2. Wipe duck with a damp cloth and chop, bones and all, in 2inch
sections. Cut pork in 1inch cubes. Place duck and pork in a heavy pan.

3. Cut scallion stalk in 1inch sections; slice ginger root. Add to pan,
along with soy sauce, water, soaked mushrooms and chestnuts.

4. Bring to a boil; then simmer, covered, until done (about 1One half hours).

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