Coarsely chop shrimp into small pea-sized morsels.
Toss with 1/2 teaspoon salt; set aside for 10 minutes.
Combine pork, ginger, sugar, pepper, soy sauce,
sherry, sesame oil, cornstarch, green onions, water
chestnuts and remain- ing salt. Add to shrimp; mix
well. Work with 1 won ton at a time; keep the
remaining skins covered with a damp towel. Place a
wrapper flat in your palm with a corner pointing away
from you and a corner pointing at you. Put about 1
heaping teaspoon fill- ing in the top corner (a little
way down from the point). Fold the point toward you
over filling. Tucking in filling, roll corner over
toward the center of the wrapper. The won ton should
look like a triangle. Pinch around filling to contain
it. Place won ton on a work surface, Using both hands,
grasp the 2 op- posite. corners of the won ton and
pull them up over filling, overlapping them a bit.
Moisten overlapped edges with water; pinch to seal.
Set on a baking sheet and cover with a cloth. Repeat
with remaining ingredients. The dumplings are now
ready for boiling. Or freeze them; they'll keep for
several months. Makes about 5 dozen won tons. PER 6
WONTONS: 160 calories, 13 g protein, 14 g carbohy-
drate, 5 g fat (2 g saturated), 80 mg cholesterol, 451
mg sodium, 0 g fiber. Joyce Jue writing in the San
Francisco Chronicle, 3/17/93.
