Lamb Soup Pot

Recipes Ingredients:

4 lb Lamb bones, cracked
1/2 lb Canned salted mustard green
1 lb Lamb Meat (shoulder or leg)
1 lb Bean sprouts
4 qt Cold water
1/2 c Unsoaked "cloud ear"
1 tb Fresh ginger, sliced
Dried black fungus
1 lg Onion, quartered
4 Scallions
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 lb Dried Bean thread noodles
1 ts Sugar
8 Charcoal briquettes
1/2 c Light sherry

Recipe Instructions:

Make stock: Put Lamb bones, ginger, onions & water in stock pot. Bring to boil, reduce heat & simmer for 2 hours, reducing liquid by half. Skim froth. Shred Lamb meat. Add meat, salt, Sugar & light sherry to stock. Simmer for another 20 minutes. Finish soup: Wash & soak "cloud ears." Soak noodles for a few minutes until soft. Drain & rinse mustard green; slice into shreds. Rinse Bean sprouts. Wash & remove roots from scallions; shred on bias, greens & all. Prepare Fire Pot: Heat charcoal briquettes. When they start to turn white, transfer to bottom of Fire Pot; place pot on heat-proof tile on your table. Add half the broth & half the other ingredients, reserving the rest for later in dinner. Serve after broth has boiled briefly.