How to cook Chinese Recipe GAI GRUN YUNG WAA (Bird's-nest Soup)

GAI GRUN YUNG WAA 
(Bird's-nest Soup)

Ingredients :

One half pound of bird's nest; 

one pint of chicken stock; 

one quarter pound of cooked breast of chicken; 

one boiled egg; 

one quarter pound of minced ham; 

one teaspoonful of salt. 

Directions :

To make this soup, the bird's nest is first boiled an hour, then drained and put into cold water. 

Meanwhile the cooked chicken meat is well pounded, so as not to be in large or hard pieces, and a cupful of the cold stock is added to it. 

Next the bird's nest is taken from the cold water and well drained, and added to the soup stock. Boil for half an hour. 

Now the chicken meat is added, and also the egg, the latter having previously been finely 
crumbled. 

The soup is taken off the fire as it begins to boil again after the last addition. Before serving, the minced ham is sprinkled on top. 

Bird's nest is a gelatinous substance, a species of seaweed, with which certain Chinese birds, the esculent swallow and the white-backed swallow, build their nests. 

It is also found in Java. It is one of the most delicious of Chinese foods, and esteemed and praised not alone by the Chinese but by all travelers in the Orient. 

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