Tso tin kai (Fried Frogs)

Ingredients

• twenty-four hind legs
• in a pickle of vinegar, oil, pepper, and soy for one and a half hours
• Make a batter of flour
• oil
• water
• soy
• a little grated lemon
• cayenne
• finely sifted pounded biscuits

Method

1. 1

   Soak frog legs in a vinegar pickle for 1.5 hours.

2. 2

   Make a batter with flour, oil, water, soy, lemon, and cayenne.

3. 3

   Coat legs in batter, then in pounded biscuits.

4. 4

   Fry in boiling oil until browned.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Tso tin kai. (Fried Frogs.) Soak twenty-four hind legs in a pickle of vinegar, oil, pepper, and soy for one and a half hours. Make a batter 102 CHINA (North-West) of flour, oil, water, and soy, putting in a little grated lemon and cayenne. Coat the legs with this, and dip in .some finely sifted pounded biscuits

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