[Sca-cooks] Lion's Head Soup
Susan Fox
selene at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 28 08:34:29 PDT 2007
I'm a little iffy about the advice to "use almond paste" only because
most pre-pasted almonds come with sugar in, right next to the Marzipan.
I might say to use raw almond butter from the health food store, that is
a paste of just almonds right? And maybe a drop of almond extract to
fill in the flavor profile.
I would be so easy to poison, I do love the flavor of bitter almond like
this! o.O
Fondly, Selene
Elaine Koogler wrote:
> This is a similar recipe from "Ni Tsan and his 'Cloud Forest Hall Collection
> of Rules for Drinking and Eating' translated by Teresa Wang and Gene
> Anderson. As you may know, this is a 14th century ms from China, actually
> written/compiled by a noted painter of the time.
>
> *43. Water Dragonlets*
>
>
>
> Chop finely two portions of lean pork meat to each one portion of fatty
> meat. Add a little spring onion, Chinese pepper, apricot kernel paste and
> dry steamed cake powder (i.e., similar to breadcrumbs), and mix. Moisten
> hands with vinegar and roll the dough into balls. Cover the outside with
> real starch flour. Boil in soup. Take them out when they float to the
> surface. They can be served with clear or piquant stock.
>
> 1# Ground Pork
> 1/8 cup Spring onion, finely chopped
> 1/4 tsp. Szechuan pepper
> 2 Tbsp. Apricot kernel paste (use almond paste)
> 1 Tbsp. Breadcrumbs
> Starch flour
> 1 qt. Chicken stock
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