{"id":552,"slug":"century-egg-with-ham-and-ginger","title":"Century Egg with Ham and Ginger","description":"The century egg (a.k.a. preserved egg, thousand-year egg, hundred-year egg, hundred-year-old egg, thousand-year-old egg; Chinese: 皮蛋; pinyin: pídàn or Chinese: 松花蛋; pinyin: sōnghūadàn) is a Chinese delicacy made by preserving duck (or less commonly chicken) eggs in a mixture of charcoal and lime for (despite the name) around 100 days. It is greenish in color, has a creamy cheese-like flavor, and a strong aroma.","ingredients_raw":["4 century eggs","80 g Jinhua ham","80 g pickled stem ginger","1 small bowl of dark vinegar (use for dipping)"],"ingredients_norm":["century egg","jinhua ham","pickled stem ginger","bowl of dark vinegar"],"steps":["Wash century eggs clean.","Shell the eggs, and cut each into 4 slices. Cut the pickled stem ginger into thin slices.","Cut the Jinhua ham into thin slices. Soak in water for a while.","Sandwich a slice of ginger with one of ham and a sliced century egg.","Serve with vinegar."],"categories":["Chinese recipes","Recipes using egg","Recipes using ginger","Recipes using ham","Naturally gluten-free recipes"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Century_Egg_with_Ham_and_Ginger","source_ref":"4507166","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Century_Egg_with_Ham_and_Ginger&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"c245ea4ea5fc32f4c1d5183093f9b249542156e5aa9db1a29f0c6d068f21aeb2","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:42:58Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:42:58Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/century-egg-with-ham-and-ginger"}