Cookbook:Century Egg with Ham and Ginger

| Cuisines | Cuisine of China

The century egg (a.k.a. preserved egg, thousand-year egg, hundred-year egg, hundred-year-old egg, thousand-year-old egg; Chinese: 皮蛋; pinyin: pídàn or Chinese: 松花蛋; pinyin: sōnghūadàn) is a Chinese delicacy made by preserving duck (or less commonly chicken) eggs in a mixture of charcoal and lime for (despite the name) around 100 days. It is greenish in color, has a creamy cheese-like flavor, and a strong aroma.

Ingredients

 * 4 century eggs
 * 80 g Jinhua ham
 * 80 g pickled stem ginger
 * 1 small bowl of dark vinegar (use for dipping)

Procedure

 * 1) Wash century eggs clean.
 * 2) Shell the eggs, and cut each into 4 slices. Cut the pickled stem ginger into thin slices.
 * 3) Cut the Jinhua ham into thin slices. Soak in water for a while.
 * 4) Sandwich a slice of ginger with one of ham and a sliced century egg.
 * 5) Serve with vinegar.