Ingredients
2 cup tea, very strong black
1/3 cup salt
2 cup ashes of pine wood
2 cup ashes of charcoal
2 cup fireplace ashes
1 cup lime*
12 duck egg, fresh
Directions
*Available in garden stores and nurseries.
Combine tea, salt, ashes and lime. Using about 1/2 cup per egg,
thickly coat each egg completely with this clay-like mixture. Line a
large crock with garden soil and carefully lay coated eggs on top.
Cover with more soil and place crock in a cool dark place. Allow to
cure for 100 days. To remove coating, scrape eggs and rinse under
running water to clean thoroughly. Crack lightly and remove shells.
The white of the egg will appear a grayish, translucent color and
have a gelatinous texture. The yolk, when sliced, will be a
grayish-green color.
To serve, cut into wedges and serve with:
Sweet pickled scallions or any sweet pickled vegetable
Sauce of 2 tablespoons each vinegar, soy sauce and rice wine and 1
tablespoon minced ginger root.
Preserved Ancient Eggs
These are often called thousand-year eggs, even though the
preserving process lasts only 100 days. They may be purchased
individually in Oriental markets.
The description of the whites turning grayish isn't quite
accurate from the ones I've seen. They're more a dark blackish amber
color-- quite attractive actually.
From "The Regional Cooking of China" by Margret Gin and Alfred E.
Castle, 101 Productions, San Francisco, 1975.
Incidentally, this is an excellent book. It's written by Maggie
Gin of commercial Chinese sauce fame. If you can find an early
edition, get it. The later editions have been integrated into her
marketing strategies and may not be as complete as this one is. They
also call for whatever the sauce ingredients are or "Maggie Gin's
Such and Such Sauce".
per Stephen Ceideburg Submitted By SAM
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Servings: 12 servings
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