Sample Firepot Stock Recipe
Ingredients
5 quarts water
1 chicken
1 ham bone
6 dried scallops
1 pound roast pig
1 pint oysters
1 pint clams
1 can abalone salt
2 cakes bean curd
Directions
1. Bring water to a boil in a 10-quart pot. Meanwhile bone chicken, reserving and refrigerating meat for use later. Add carcass to the pot along with ham bone, dried scallops and roast pig (not roast pork; see Glossary).
2. Shell oysters and clams; drain canned abalone. Add liquids to the pot, reserving and refrigerating meat. Bring to a boil; then simmer, covered, 1 1/2 hours.
3. Strain stock, discarding bones and other particles. Return stock to pot and season with salt to taste. Cut each bean curd cake in 9 cubes and add.
2. Shell oysters and clams; drain canned abalone. Add liquids to the pot, reserving and refrigerating meat. Bring to a boil; then simmer, covered, 1 1/2 hours.
3. Strain stock, discarding bones and other particles. Return stock to pot and season with salt to taste. Cut each bean curd cake in 9 cubes and add.