Title: Hot Orange Soup with Wafers
Categories: Chinese, Soups
Yield: 6 Servings

5 c Water
3/4 c Rock sugar
4 c Fresh orange juice
1 tb Preserved ginger, in syrup
3 tb Cornstarch paste
6 Thin slices of orange
6 Thin slices of lime
6 Maraschino cherries
6 Mint leaves
12 Coconut (or vanilla) cream
-wafers

Hot orange soup from China is unlike orange juice or
soda pop. Preparation: Squeeze orange juice, strain.
Break up rock sugar. Mince preserved ginger.
Cooking: Combine water and rock sugar; bring to boil.
When rock sugar is dissolved, add orange juice and
cornstarch paste; stir. Cornstarch paste should give
soup a light body. Pour into individual warmed bowls;
add preserved ginger to each serving. Float orange
and lime slice and a cherry; garnish with mint leaf.
Serve with wafers.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini