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                    Home Style Pork and Cucumber Soup

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Serving Size  : 6    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Chinese                          Soups

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
     1/4  pound         Lean pork
     1/2  teaspoon      Sugar
     1/2  tablespoon    Light soy sauce
     1/2  tablespoon    Rice wine or dry sherry
   1      teaspoon      Cornstarch
   1      teaspoon      Vegetable oil or Asian -- sesame oil
   1      small         Cucumber
   4      cups          Chicken stock or water
   1      quart         Slice fresh  ginger -- lightly crushed
   1      tablespoon    Minced Smithfield ham or -- prosciutto (optional
                        Coriander sprigs for garnish

Nothing fancy about this soup++it's just simple, delicious and refreshing.
 Cut the pork into thin slices and combine with the sugar, soy sauce, wine, cornstarch and oil.  Set aside.

 Peel, halve and seed the cucumber.  Cut crosswise into 1/4-inch thin slices.

 Bring stock and ginger to a boil.

 Add the pork and reduce to a lively simmer; simmer for 10 minutes. A
dd cucumber and simmer until translucent, about 3 minutes.

 Garnish with the optional ham and coriander.

 Serves 6 as part of a multiple-dish Chinese meal.

 PER SERVING:  65 calories, 6 g protein, 4 g carbohydrate, 2 g fat (1 g (1 g saturated), 13 mg cholesterol, 101 mg sodium, 0 g fiber.

 Joyce Jue, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/23/92.

 Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; December 2 1992.

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