Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.tutrp.tut.ac.jp!news.cc.tut.ac.jp!nfeed.gw.nagoya-u.ac.jp!news-sv.sinet!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Umeboshi Holy Grail? Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:18:29 +0900 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <413DA715.6010905@hotmail.com> References: <1ei012-0ua.ln1@urd.awh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de WC8pYBUdnTkJHMZ7PkJQcgcUhBYQ9yIofrWg4+0lCa8lrd+FLt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1ei012-0ua.ln1@urd.awh.org> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:17980 Drew Hamilton wrote: > I need some umeboshi advice. > Or is there some way to get nice sour umeboshi with less > salt flavour to them? The saltiness/bitterness usually correlates. The problem here is that you are getting them from supermarkets. Pick them off a tree, and don't put (much) salt in when preparing them. (How is the gaigin house?) -- "You are about to embark on a course of studies which... form a noble adventure. Except for those of you who will become teachers or dons, all that you will learn in the course of your studies will not be of the slightest possible use to you in later life -- save only this -- that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot" J.A. Smith, 1914