Thai Spring Rolls

Ingredients:

• 1/2 lb Freshly Ground Pork
• 1/4 lb Shrimp or Crab Meat-
• -chopped
• 10 Dried Chinese Black
• -Mushrooms
• 1 oz Bean Threads
• 1 md Onion- finely chopped
• 1 Carrot- shredded
• 1/4 lb Bean Sprouts
• 1/2 ts Ground Black Pepper
• 2 ts Fish Sauce- or
• 1/2 ts Salt
• 1 ts Sugar
• 1 c Lukewarm Water
• 12 Rice Papers- quartered
• 6 c Oil- for deep frying
• 48 Lettuce Leaves
• 1 bn Fresh Mint
• 1 Cucumber- thinly sliced

Preparation:

• In a medium bowl combine pork and shrimp.
• Soak mushrooms in warm water for 20 minutes, remove stems and chop caps.
• Soak bean threads in warm water for 20 minutes, then cut into 1" lengths.
• Add mushrooms, bean threads, onion, carrot, bean sprouts, black pepper and fish sauce to pork mixture.
• Mix well.
• Set mixture aside for 15 minutes to allow flavors of ingredients to blend.