Home-made tortoise jelly

Home-made Tortoise Jelly
家製龜苓膏

Ingredients

Flour Mixture

300g tortoise plastron
80g dried root of rehmannia
80g dried honey suckle flower
80g greenbrier(rhizome)
80g Chinese mesona
32g weeping forsythia
40g Chinese prayer-beads (Herba Abri Cantoniensis)
20g dried dandelion
32g Chinese atractylodes (rhizome)
20g root-bark of ditlany
20g fangfeng(Radix Lede- bouriellae)
20g jingjie (Herba schizone- petae)
20g dried chrysanthemum
20g loosestrife(Herba lysimachiae)

375g rice flour
80g corn flour

Method

Cook the tortoise shell in simmering pot or vacuum cooker for 10 hours; wash all the herbs and boil them with 30 bowls of water. Then the water boils, turn the heat down and remove the foams on top.
Cook the tortoise shell with the herbs over medium heat until it is reduced to about 15 bowls, strain the essence and discard the herbs.
Reserve 5 bowls of herbal essence and let cool; cook the remaining 10 bowls until it boils and turn the heat down.
Combine the cooled herbal essence with rice flour and corn flour to make a batter, divide it among 15 bowls.
Pour the boiled herbal essence into the batter in each bowl. Make sure you stir the batter well before pouring in the hot essence.


Ingredients	Strain the herbs	Divide the herbal essence among the bowls

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