Hot orange soup with wafers

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
5 cups Water
¾ cup Rock sugar
4 cups Fresh orange juice
1 tablespoon Preserved ginger, in syrup
3 tablespoons Cornstarch paste
6 Thin slices of orange
6 Thin slices of lime
6 Maraschino cherries
6 Mint leaves
12 Coconut (or vanilla) cream wafers

Directions

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.

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