Red Cooking Sauce For Meat Shanghainese

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Title: RED COOKING SAUCE FOR MEAT SHANGHAINESE
Categories: Chinese, Sauces, Loo
Yield: 2 cups

2 c Water
2 oz Dry sherry or rice wine
3 tb Dark soy
2 tb Brown sugar
4 Slice ginger
1 Star anise
2 Scallions
1 Slice dried tangerine
-peel

To use these sauces: bring them to a slow boil in a
large kettle. Add meat or poultry, return to slow
boil, reduce heat to simmer, and cook until done.
Drain meat and serve with some sauce (optionally
thickened with cornstarch-water) on the side. Save and
reuse leftover sauce, which gets richer with each use.
Leftover sauce should be salted lightly, boiled a few
minutes, skimmed, and cooled before storage in the
refrigerator. If it is to be kept a long time it
should be boiled and skimmed once in awhile.

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