Recipe - Red-Simmered Spiced Beef With Turnips

2 pound Beef chuck
2 sl Fresh ginger root
1 Scallion stalk
One half cup Sherry
1 cup Water
2 Or
3 Cloves star anise
1 Chinese turnip
One half cup Soy sauce
2 teaspoon Sugar
One half cup Water

1. Leave beef whole and place in a heavy saucepan. Slice and crush ginger
root; cut scallion stalk in two and add.

2. Add sherry, water and star anise and simmer, covered, 1 hour.

3. Peel Chinese turnip; cut in large cubes or slice thick by rollingcut
method. Add with soy sauce, sugar and remaining water. Simmer, covered, 1
hour more.

4. Let beef and turnip cool in stock, then slice beef. Strain stock and
pour over beef and turnip. Refrigerate and serve cold.

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