Bäk Toy Gun (Chinese Soup of White Vegetables)

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons syou
• 1/2 pound white mushrooms
• 1 dozen water chestnuts
• 1/4 pound bean sprouts
• 1 stalk celery
• 2 small onions
• 3 eggs
• garlic
• 3 pints water

Instructions

1. Use no meat or stock for this soup.
2. Have ready three pints of boiling, salted water with the two tablespoonfuls of syou in it.
3. Wash all the vegetables in cold water and cut them in small pieces.
4. Add them all except the mushrooms and celery, and boil for fifteen minutes.
5. Add the mushrooms and celery.
6. Whip up the three eggs in a little cold water and drop them slowly into the boiling soup, stirring as they drop, so that they form into fanciful shapes.
7. Remove at once, and serve.