My favorite noodle recipe EVER!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

I learned this from a lady in China. She didn't speak English, and I didn't speak Mandarin, but she invited me into her kitchen and showed me how to do it.

I just found a bag of Pennsylvania Dutch noodle. Guess what I'm gonna fix tomorrow?

Cold Hot Noodles

1 pound cooked noodles – wide, like Pennsylvania Dutch soup noodles
12 spring onions (scallions), very finely chopped
4 teaspoons Red Pepper Oil
4 teaspoons sesame oil
4 Tablespoons vinegar
8 level teaspoons sugar
3 level teaspoons salt
1 level teaspoon white or black pepper
1 level teaspoon crushed red pepper
8 tablespoons cooking oil

Mix all the ingredients except the 8 tablespoons cooking oil in a heatproof Pyrex container.

(This next step, don't ever try while naked.)

Heat the oil until almost smoking. Pour it in a thin stream over the mixture, and stir immediately. Let it stand for about 15 minutes, then pour neatly over one pound cooked noodles.

RED PEPPER OIL

5 Tbs. oil
4 level tsps. cayenne pepper

Heat the oil until quite hot but not smoking. Turn the heat off and wait about 30 seconds. Add the red pepper, stir immediately, and allow to stand until cool. Filter the mixture through one thickness of paper napkin.

(I strongly recommend doing this outdoors – the fumes are treacherous.)

[Warpy]

1. You're reminding me of a Chinese dinner I cooked for friends

during a hellacious snowstorm. I had a portable gas ring which I took down to their basement because the recipe called for stir frying 8 hot Thai chiles in oil and I knew what the fumes were like. Well, I did the whole business and came upstairs with all the finished dishes to find everybody coughing and in tears. Even their poor cats were coughing!

The dinner was superb, though.

[Lucinda]

2. Yum. Thanks for the recipe. We'll try it next time Bill cooks Chinese!

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