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     Title: CRAB COMBINATION SOUP
Categories: Chinese, Seafood, Soups
     Yield: 6 servings

     1 oz Dried mushrooms
          Boiling water
     6 oz Fresh or thawed frozen
          Crabmeat
     4 oz Frozen sea scallops
   1/2 c  Drained whole or sliced
          Bamboo shoots (1/2 of 8 oz
          Can)
     8    Green onions
     1 ts Vegetable oil
     1    Egg, slightly beaten
     6 c  Chicken broth
   1/2 ts Grated pared fresh ginger
          Root
     3 tb Cornstarch
     6 tb Water
 1 1/2 tb Rice wine (or dry sherry)
     4 ts Soy sauce
     2    Egg whites

 1. Place mushrooms in bowl and cover with boiling
 water.  Let stand 30 minutes.  Drain.  Remove and
 discard stems.  Cut caps into thin slices.

 2. Flake crabmeat.  Rinse scallops with water, drain
 and cut into thin slices.  Cut bamboo shoots into
 thing strips.  Chop green onions.

 3. Heat oil in small omelet or crepe pan.  Add eggs
 and tilt pan so egg completely covers bottom.  Cook
 over medium-high heat until egg is set. Loosen edges
 and turn omelet over to cook other side.  Remove from
 pan, roll up and cut into thing strips.

 4. Pour broth into 3-quart saucepan.  Cook over high
 heat until broth boils.  Stir in mushrooms, crabmeat,
 scallops, bamboo shoots, onions, sliced egg, ginger
 and pepper.  Return soup to boil.

 5. Combine cornstarch, 4 tablespoons of the water, the
 wine and soy sauce.
  Stir mixture into soup.  Return soup to boil.

 6. Beat egg whites and remaining 2 tablespoons water.
 Drizzle egg whites slowly into soup while stirring
 soup vigorously.

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