This article is from the 20th Century Appetizer Recipes, with numerous contributions by famous and also anonymous cooks
1 1/2 c Rock salt
4 c Fresh water
12 Fresh eggs, preferably duck eggs Bring water and rock salt to a boil; cool. Place eggs in a crock or glass jar. Pour salt-water mixture over eggs to cover. Cover crock and let stand in a cool place (not refrigerator) for three weeks. Remove eggs from salt bath and store them in the refrigerator if not ready to use immediately. Yolks should be a bright yellow-orange color and quite firm. The white should be slightly cloudy and still runny. Eggs without a firm yolk should be discarded. To hard cook, cover with fresh cold water and simmer for
20 minutes. Shell an quarter.
Serve with hot rice or congee. NOTE: Salted duck eggs may be purchased in mud-pack form or in brine in Oriental markets. If in mud pack, scrape off mud, wash well and proceed with recipe.
From: "The Regional Cooking of China" by Margret Gin and Alfred E. Castle, 101 Productions, San Francisco, 1975.
From: Stephen Ceideburg September 7 1990.
 
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