MargeM I found this on a newsgroup It my help mwpart On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:47:58 +1000, Gregory Toomey <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: >homeboy3 wrote: >> I recently was at one of those all-U-can-eat asian buffets where they had >> at the dessert station simply quartered-sliced bananas with a red glaze >> poured over them. I can't quite put my finger on the taste, although it >> was pleasant. Interestingly, the sauce possibly had a dual purpose of >> preventing that ugly brown thing happening when exposed to long? >> >> Does anyone know what this is and where I can make/purchanse it? >> >> Thanks for any help. > >At a guess it probably contains >- water >- red food colouring (chinese restuarants usually use a "rose" colour) >- an acid - probably lemon juice out of a bottle >- sugar >- colourless thickener - arrowroot (same as used in sweet & pork) >- spices - star anise? five spice? > >gtoomey And often... if not usually sugar Use the email below please edwAT thewrightsplace DOT us The embedded reply address is to a[mb]use spammers -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.9/540 - Release Date: 20/11/2006