SC - Help!!!!
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 15 13:58:01 PDT 2000
- --- lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> Elaine Koogler wrote:
> > Mei (described as salted, pickled white
> Chinese plum)
>
> If these are the dried kind, i'd guess you'd need to
> go to a Chinese
> store where they're often sold on the candy aisle
> along with
> sweet-and-salty cuttlefish shreds. Here in
> California they are often
> sold in regular supermarkets.
>
> Saying they're "pickled" makes me think they're
> moist. If so, there's
> a Japanese variety called Umeboshi - "ume"
> (pronounced like oo-may)
> means plum - or "salt plums" that are also sold in
> health food stores
> in little glass jars, which you may find more easily
> than a Chinese
> market, depending on where you live.
>
> Anahita al-shazhiyya
Except as I said before, that salt plums or 'ume' are
not actually plums, but a form of apricot. They are
dyed red or purple using shiso leaves.
Huette
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