Condiment
Classic Plum Sauce
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Classic Chinese plum sauce is salted, vinegared, spiced plum (and often other fruit): sweet-sour, for duck and spring rolls, not a dessert plum syrup. It should have spice, not only jam. A dip. Duck-sauce style is the American sweeter cousin.
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Characteristics
Preparations
DuckSpring Roll
Traits
ChineseDipDuck DipNot Dessert SyrupNot Only JamSpiceSpiced PlumSweet Sour
History
CN
Southern Chinese plum sauces were a sweet-sour meat dip.
Classic plum sauce packets arrived with roast duck abroad.
Classic was distinguished from candy-orange duck sauce.