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THE CHINESE COOK BOOK

PORK SOUP


GUE

YORK

TONG

2 cups lean pork cut into fragments
2 teaspoonfuls cornstarch
2 teaspoonfuls Chinese sauce
5 cups primary soup
2 cups Chinese mushrooms
A few drops sesamum-seed oil
3 cups star melon cut into small pieces after the rind is removed
Salt

(a) Mix the pork, cornstarch, Chinese sauce, and salt.

(b) Bring the primary soup to a boil. Then add the pork mixture and the mushrooms, and cook for ½ hour.

(c) Ten minutes before taking soup off stove, add the melon.