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THE CHINESE COOK BOOK
97

STEAMED TURTLE


DON

QUY

3 turtles
2 cups mushrooms
2 cups chestnuts
½ pound Chinese roast pork
½ cup Fun Wine
1 teaspoonful ginger root juice

(a) Put the live turtles into a cooking-pan of cold water. Bring to a boil slowly.

(b) Remove the shell and interior. Wash. Cut the meat into pieces 1 inch by 1 inch by 1½ inches.

(e) Have a hot fire. Put 2 tablespoonfuls of oil into a frying-pan. When the oil is very hot put in the meat, Fun Wine, and ginger root juice. Fry for 10 minutes. Turn constantly.

(d) Cut the bamboo shoots into pieces ¾ inch by 1½ inches by 1/16 inch. Cut the pork into pieces ¾ inch by 1½ inches by ¾ inch.

(e) Add to the meat in the frying-pan, the mushrooms, chestnuts, bamboo shoots, pork