Showing posts with label Foi Thong. Show all posts
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April 1, 2009

Gold Threads, Foi Thong, Thai Desserts





Thai Desserts
Gold Threads, Foi Thong, ฝอยทอง
Ingredients
10 duck's eggs or hen's egg
3 cups of sugar
2 cups of jasmine water
1 pieces of thin white cloth for filtering

Preparation
1. To make syrup, Pour sugar in jasmine water until the sugar dissolves and then take to water to be filtered.Continue heating to the consistency of syrup.
2. Break eggs and separate yolks from whites and collect the densest portion of egg whites,remove all membrane from yolks. Mixing the yolks with 2 to 3 tbsp. of the dense portion of the whites.
3. Heat syrup in copper pan over fairly low heat. Pour the egg through a narrow stemmed funnel with two small holes and moving the funnel in circular motion over the pot of syrup. When the egg has firmed about 1 to 2 minutes will become golden threads in the syrup.
4. Then used wooden skewer to stir the golden threads in the syrup then placed them on the tray.