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Chinese recipes

Chapter 4: EGG-FLOWERS SOUP
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A practical collection of home-style Chinese recipes accompanied by explanatory notes on common seasonings, ingredient substitutions, and suggested quantities. It offers measured, step-by-step directions for tea, soups, rice dishes, seafood and meat preparations, vegetable dishes, fried dim-sum–style items, sauces and simple puddings, with techniques such as frying, deep-frying and cornstarch-thickened gravies. Many recipes state serving amounts and include kitchen tips for adapting traditional ingredients to widely available shortenings and groceries. The overall approach emphasizes straightforward instructions to help cooks reproduce authentic flavors using accessible methods and supplies.

EGG-FLOWERS SOUP

1 quart chicken broth
½ cup finely chopped water chestnuts
2 eggs
pepper and salt

Pour half cupful of finely chopped water chestnuts into a quart of boiling chicken broth. Cook for about five minutes. Beat up two eggs, yolks and whites together. Pour egg into chicken broth and stir well and slowly until it forms small flowers. Add pepper and salt to taste.