Foi Thong (Thai)
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INGREDIENTS
- Cooking Time: 30 minutes
- Servings: 2-3 people
- Preparation Time: 15 minutes
- Yolks from 10 duck's eggs and 5 hen's eggs
- 3 cups of sugar
- 2 cups of water scented of jasmine
- 1 piece of thin white cloth for filtering
DIRECTIONS
- Put all the yolk on a piece of thin white cloth, fold it up, and squeeze the cloth to filter the yolk through it.
- To make syrup, boil sugar in water scented with jasmine in a pot. When all the sugar dissolves, take the water to be filtered before continuing stewing it until bubbles appear all over the surface.
- Pour the yolk through a narrow funnel which is placed over the pot of syrup so that the yolk will become golden threads in the syrup.
- Use a long pointed piece of wood to stir the golden threads in the syrup until they become smooth.
- Remove them from heat and wrap them around themselves so that they form the shape of a rectangle.
RECIPE BACKSTORY
Like other egg-based Portuguese sweets, fios de ovos is believed to have been created by Portuguese monks and nuns around the 14th or 15th centuries. Laundry was a common service performed by convents and monasteries, and their use of egg whites for "starching" clothes created a large surplus of yolks. The recipe was probably taken to Japan and Thailand by Portuguese explorers between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Submitted by: "The Dumrongjaroen family"