Beijing Pickled Cabbage

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Looking at some past photos of stuff we've made, I discovered this one. I don't even remember with what we served this. JS just happened to make some random dish from Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book Volume I.

JS and I were walking aimlessly in Taipei 101 when we saw an English-language bookstore. Finally, a store we can patronize. Browsing its cookery shelves, we were ecstatic to find Pei Mei cookbooks in English! We snapped up Volumes 1 to 3 of this series, plus 2 volumes of her Homestyle Cooking books.

Granted, this isn't a very snazzy introduction to her cookbooks, but at least we can enter this into Wandering Chopsticks' Weekend Wokking event.

about Fu Pei Mei
http://www.flavorandfortune.com/dataaccess/article.php?ID=379
http://tofuwatch.com/2009/07/decades-later-fu-pei-meis-chinese-recipes-particularly-tofu-still-inspire-who-was-she/

Pei Mei cookbooks



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Recipe
Sweet & Sour Cabbage Salad, Beijing Style
from Pei Mei's Chinese Cook Book Volume 1

Note: This may be kept for 1 week in the refrigerator.

Ingredients
900g cabbage or Chinese cabbage
1/3 cup red chili shreds
1 tablespoon ginger shreds
1/2 tablespoon Szechuan peppercorns

Seasonings
2/3 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons sugar
5 tablespoons vinegar
2 tablespoons sesame oil

Rince and cut the cabbage into shreds about 4 cm long. Put into a bowl, sprinkle with salt, mix and let sit for about 1-2 hours.

Squeeze out the salty water from the cabbage. Place cabbage into bowl and add the red chili shreds and ginger shreds.

Heat sesame oil in a pan, add the Szechuan peppercorns, and cook until they are fragrant and turn darker in color. Add sugar and vinegar, and bring to a boil. Pour this mixture over the cabbage and mix well. Cover with a lid, and let sit for about 1-2 hours, until the cabbage absorbs the flavors.