4 tbsp soy sauce
4 tsp rice vinegar
1 tsp sesame oil
Directions
Mix all ingredients. Serve with sauteed bean curd.
Madhur Jaffrey's "World of the East Vegetarian
Cookbook"
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Appetizer; Dip; Korean; Sauce
The History of Recipes
We are able to trace the history of written recipes far back into the far past, in fact as far back as pharonic Egypt, and possibly even further than that. In practice though, these, old cookbooks were just very basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for food preparation.
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