SC - Help!!!!

[Huette von Ahrens]

- --- 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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