Byeolmi (Special Delicacy — Cod-and-Hen Aspic)

Ingredients

• birds hen
• whole fish dried cod
• doe clear soy sauce
• doe sesame oil
• ginger
• black pepper
• Sichuan pepper

Instructions

1. Remove heads and bones from two hens and three whole dried cod, combine, and simmer in plain water.
2. Add 1 doe clear soy sauce, 1 doe sesame oil, ginger, black pepper, and Sichuan pepper; season lightly and boil down.
3. Simmer until the bones dissolve and everything softens and thickens like jelly; add more water as it boils away and discard settled bones.
4. Pour into a brass vessel; when it congeals, slice thin like boiled meat and eat with vinegar-soy.