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Contents 1 Calabash noodle soup 2 American origins of calabash 3 How big is a calabash? 4 USDA profile for Black Calabash

[edit] Calabash noodle soup

I moved this recipe from the article, thinking it should eventually make its way to the cookbook. — Pekinensis 15:49, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Calabash noodle soup (Chinese: 葫蘆麵 or 葫子麵) is a Chinese dish composed of cooked calabash, shredded meat, noodles, and soup. The following is a rough outline for creating the dish.

• Peel the calabash. Then cut the calabash into finger-sized strips.
• Cut the pork tenderloin meat into tiny strips. Marinate the meat with corn starch, soy sauce, and sugar.
• On a wok, stir-fry the meat untill it is slightly brown. Remove the meat from the wok.
• On the wok, stir-fry the calabash strips and garlic for a couple of minutes. Place the meat back into the wok and add soup stock, soy sauce, and water. Simmer for a couple of minutes untill the calabash strips look tender.
• Crack two eggs and pour the white and the yolk into the soup.
• Serve the soup with noodles.

[edit] American origins of calabash

According to the book The Peoples And Cultures of Ancient Peru by Luis G. Lumbreras, Lagenaria siceraria has american origins. The remains of this plant has been found by archaeologists in Tamaulipas, Mexico in contexts dating back 7000 years.

[edit] How big is a calabash?

the Sherlock Holmes's pipe reference made me think that they're only a few centimeters in size, but to be used as a canteen or a bowl, they must be more like 15-20 centimeters in diameter. How big are they? --85.116.207.246 00:31, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] USDA profile for Black Calabash

Is this just a naming coincidence?? I found it on the USDA website.

Amphitecna latifolia

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=AMLA4&photoID=amla4_001_ahp.tif —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.151.13 (talk) 06:15, 21 February 2008 (UTC)