There are many delicacies in Fujian, such as Fuzhou pot side paste, Xiamen oyster frying, Quanzhou ginger duck, Longyan beef soup, Sanming hot mouth tofu, etc., are very famous, and are also especially suitable for winter eating!
But after talking about the soup for many days, today I will share with you a delicacy - soil shoot jelly!
And snail powder is similar to it, people who like it like it, people who don't like it, call it the dark cuisine of #Fujian food industry!
Like jelly, the jelly of the earth shoots looks crystal clear, tender and smooth, originating from Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and is a characteristic traditional flavor snack with good color and fragrance. Its shape is normal frozen, if you don't say what it is made of, you will probably eat very happy! [Dog Head]
But, you think it's just a simple shoot? No, no, no, in fact, it is a worm!
Earth shoots, also known as Tu Bamboo Shoots, according to the "Min Xiao Ji", "Yu often eats soil shoot jelly in Fujian, the taste is very rare, but it smells like an earthworm, that is, Sand Sunda." ”
This earthen shoot was originally wild on the tidal flat where the coastal rivers enter the sea and the brackish water meet, and belonged to the star worm animal phylum, the scientific name of the coca-cloth star worm. It contains gum, two or three inches long, its appearance is rough, the color is black and brown, the thick one is like an index finger, the thin one is like a rice stem, about the length of the thumb, and it also drags a "tail" that is one or two inches long, as thin as a matchstick, and stretches freely. "Soil shoot jelly" is a frozen product processed from it.
Sandworms are rich in gum and will congeal into jelly when boiled in boiling water. It is rich in a variety of trace elements and protein, so it is called "beach sausage", but people with a bad spleen and stomach can not be gluttonous.
I can't accept it, I'm sorry everyone
In addition to making "soil shoot jelly", you can also fry food, cook soup, and cook with american ginseng, lean meat, etc. to make medicinal food.
Its approach is not simple! After catching the sandworms from the sand, they are stocked for a day to spit out the sediment, and then spread on the stone slab to crush the stomach and wash away the remaining mud impurities in the stomach.
Then boiled in the pot, the nutrients in the worm are integrated into the water, put out and put in a small bowl, after its natural cooling, it solidifies into a small bowl of "soil shoot jelly".
Making soil shoot jelly, time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also cost materials, a pound of sandworms to make only three or four two can make soil shoot jelly. Although you may think that sandworms are terrible, it is really not easy to make a bowl of earthen shoot jelly!
To date, there are two widely circulated theories about the origin of the jelly:
It is said that when Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan, there was a shortage of grain and grass for a period of time. However, Zheng Chenggong, who governed the army strictly, resolutely did not take the things of the common people.
At that time, the garrison station was very close to the beach, and the soldiers went to the beach to dig up "earthen shoots", and Zheng Chenggong drank soil shoot jelly soup every day. However, he is a worried country and people, and he often forgets to eat when he is busy. It is often necessary to heat the soldier repeatedly.
One day, his subordinates said that they wanted to help him heat up the soup, but he refused, and directly ate the frozen earthen shoot soup, but he did not expect that this soil shoot jelly was even more delicious than the earthen shoot soup.
Later, the soil shoot jelly gradually spread, and the production method and condiments were continuously improved by posterity, forming a widely known earth shoot jelly!
During the Ming Jiajing period, the Wukou invaded the southeast coast of China, and Qi Jiguang led his troops to resist the Wu. It was also because of the shortage of food that the soldiers were ordered to catch some things that could be eaten by the sea to cook soup, and then inadvertently, the soldiers caught sea earthworms (that is, earth shoots), after all, it was rare, and some soldiers cooked a pot of sea earthworm soup alone.
Qi Jiguang went to dinner after he was busy, and then the sea earthworm soup was already frozen. He took a piece to taste, did not expect that this delicacy is more delicious than fish and crabs, and since then the frost of the earth shoots has spread.
This matter is also recorded in the "Chronology of Quanzhou Calendar Years": "In the first month of the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564), Wu Kou entered Quanzhou County, where he killed men and women. After three days of siege of Anping, the general Qi Jiguang fled. "
Have you ever eaten the jelly of the earthen shoots? How does it taste! Let's share it! In other words, when everyone eats, do you know what the soil shoot jelly is made of? Fujian friends, do you like it?