Title: Selecting Ingredients--Golden Needles (Ck)
Categories: Info Chinese Check
Yield: 1 Servings

Dried Tiger Lily Buds

Offering more of an exotic quality than taste, these are brittle when dry, but when soaked in hot water they soften and become chewy with a woodsy flavor. Golden needles are about three inches long, have an orange to golden brown color, and are used in hot-and-sour soup and mu shu dishes. Sold prepackeaged in Asian groceries, they will keep for years in a tightly closed har on the pantry shelf, although they do darken after several years.

From: Chinese Kosher Cooking Betty S. Goldberg Jonathan David Publishers, Inc., 1989

Entered by: Lawrence Kellie

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