Chinese Take-away

Ok - so what about plum sauce?  It's what they serve with egg rolls, and has little bits of orange and red stuff in it.  It's sweet and vinegary, and then you add hot mustard to it if you like.  In Michigan we call it plum sauce.

~Liza

Ok - so what about plum sauce?  It's what they serve with egg rolls, and has little bits of orange and red stuff in it.  It's sweet and vinegary, and then you add hot mustard to it if you like.  In Michigan we call it plum sauce.

~Liza

Hmm...I'm not sure, but I think I saw that at Sainsbury's yesterday.

Plum Sauce

Ingredients:
 

1 cup plum jam
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon ginger powder
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1 pinch of garlic salt
1/3 - 1/2 cup of water (depending on how thick the jam is)


Directions:

Mix the ingredients together well. Bring to a boil on low heat. Cool the sauce and store in a jar in the refrigerator. Use within a few days.

Ooo!!  I'll have to try that!  I'll send it to my mom as well - she is always complaining that she can't find proper plum sauce in North Carolina.

Thanks!

~Liza

i've never had any of those here... one time i asked for soy sauce and was given a bottle for .95p. i thought that was hysterical:)

i miss duck sauce!!

one more....


Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce

Ingredients:
 

1/3 cup white vinegar
4 TB brown sugar
1 TB ketchup
1 tsp soy sauce
 

Mixture:
2 teaspoons cornstarch mixed with 4 teaspoons water


Directions:

Mix the vinegar, brown sugar, ketchup, and soy sauce together and bring to a boil in a small pot. Mix together the cornstarch and water, add to the other ingredients and stir to thicken.

I had asked for soy sauce too, and they looked at me blankly......I love drowning everthing in soy sauce......(my dad calls it bug juice, cause if you chrushed up cockroaches it would look like soy sauce......

Okay, one more reason to not eat soy sauce!

I'm from the South and have lived in the South, mid-Atlantic, on the West Coast, as well as visited many other states. I have always had duck sauce with my Chinese. Although it is sweet and sour, it is not the same as sweet-and-sour sauce. The taste is totally different.

Liza, it's basically the same as plum sauce, just called by a different name. I can't imagine eating Chinese food without duck sauce. 

Add me to the list of people who has NEVER been offered "Duck Sauce"!  There are 3 types of packets I've always gotten from various Chinese take-outs in Chicago -- soy sauce, sweet & sour sauce, and hot mustard. 

Okay, I went to chinatown today, to get some instant noodles and some odd Mickey Mouse bisquick stuff.

I did not see duck sauce, but I only went to one smaller shop, and I did not look that hard. However, I did see plum sauce.

There is a large supermarket I passed. I am sure that if anywhere has it, it would be there.

Wow, this thing has grown   Well I'm in NY in January, my mom always has big jars of Duck Sauce at home, I'll take one of hers back with me.  I'm also pretty sure if I went to any of my friends apartments in the city I'd find their packet stashes as well.  I guess I need some of the hot mustard as well.

Thanks for the recipes, though I don't think I'll ever make them, I am hopeless in a kitchen!

Stacey

Have you tried English mustard for the yellow?  First time I tried "proper" English mustard here, I swore it was the same stuff you get at the Chinese places in the US just a bit brighter with the yellow colouring.  It was Colman's brand.

Liza, it's basically the same as plum sauce, just called by a different name. I can't imagine eating Chinese food without duck sauce. 

The duck sauce I've always had that comes in the little packets is orange and a bit sweet.  I've looked at the ingredients before and it says there's apricot in it as one of the primary ingredients. 

The duck sauce I've always had that comes in the little packets is orange and a bit sweet.  I've looked at the ingredients before and it says there's apricot in it as one of the primary ingredients. 

Yes!  That sounds like what we call plum sauce. 

Now I need to get Chinese and investigate...

~Liza

The duck sauce I've always had that comes in the little packets is orange and a bit sweet.  I've looked at the ingredients before and it says there's apricot in it as one of the primary ingredients. 

That's the stuff. Depends on the recipe you use...some are heavy opn the apricaot, some heavy on plum...just depends...maybe it's a Chinese regional thing. I've eaten both variations and, taste-wise, there's not much difference.