Recipe - Red-Simmered Whole Pork

1 3lb pork shoulder
2 sl Fresh ginger root
2 Scallion stalks
1 cup Soy sauce
3 cup Water
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Sugar

1. Place pork in a heavy pan. Slice ginger root; cut scallion stalks in
2inch sections and add.

2. Add water, soy sauce and salt. Bring to a boil; then simmer, covered,
1 hour. Turn meat over; simmer, covered, 1 hour more.

3. Add sugar; simmer, covered, another 30 minutes. Let pork cool; then
slice thin. Reheat gravy and pour over meat.

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