In the matter of eating, the delicacy of southerners sometimes really forces northerners to die.
For example, in the north, dumplings are dumplings, wontons are wontons, the south is different, what wontons are called, it all depends on which city you are in.
In Sichuan it is scribe, in Guangdong it is Wonton, in Fujian it is flat food, flat meat and meat swallow, in Jiangxi it may become clear soup...
Sometimes, you look at it like a ravioli, but it's not actually a ravioli, for example, our protagonist today, the meat swallow.
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People who don't know, seeing the meat swallow, the first reaction is absolutely: "Isn't this just wonton?" ”
Even many Fujian and Southern Zhejiang people who have not eaten meat swallows are also "flat food" and "meat swallows" are stupid and indistinguishable, meat swallows and wontons look the same, but as long as you eat a bite, you know that the essence of the two is very different.
The process of ravioli is heavy on the filling, the meat filling is often chopped very broken, many places even chop the fresh meat into minced meat, the skin is made of flour + water rolled into the dough, is the most common "bread meat".
The essence of the meat swallow lies in the skin, which is beaten with lean meat into a meat paste, coupled with tapioca flour kneading, meat swallow is a kind of "meat wrapped meat" local flavor cuisine.
According to legend, as early as the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a royal historian in Pucheng County, Fujian Province, who returned to his hometown, lived in the mountains, and after eating too many mountain treasures, he felt flat.
Therefore, his cook took the lean meat of the pork leg, beat it into a meat paste with a wooden stick, mixed with an appropriate amount of sweet potato flour, rolled it into pieces as thin as paper, cut it into small pieces of three inches square, wrapped in meat filling, made into flat food, and cooked with soup.
Lord Yushi ate in his mouth only to feel smooth and crisp, pure and fragrant, even called "Da Miao", busy asking what kind of dim sum, the chef because of its shape like a flying swallow and said "flat meat swallow".
After the flat meat swallow and duck eggs are cooked together, because the duck eggs in the Fuzhou dialect are harmonious with "pressing chaos" and "pressing waves", which means "Taiping", and there is also the saying of "Taiping Yan".
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The best meat swallow is not in Fuzhou, but in a small town called Alum Mountain on the border between Zhejiang and Fujian.
Meat swallow is as thin as white paper, its color is like jade, the taste is soft and tender, tough and powerful, if you want to make such a high-quality meat swallow, craftsmanship is the key!
First, slice them apart according to the texture of the meat to prepare for the next process.
As the essence of the taste of the meat swallow, the technique of beating the swallow skin is called "unique skill", and the masters lift 2 pounds of multiple wooden mallets and begin to pound with a great sense of form.
This is not a performance, nor is it the use of brute force in a disorderly manner, but the use of ingenuity, using rhythmic repeated beatings, until the original physiological structure of the pork is completely broken.
The meat is beaten with a round wooden stick into minced meat, and then the minced meat is beaten into a meat paste until the meat paste can be freely kneaded into a random shape.
After more than two hours of beating, the production of meat swallow skin officially began, rolling and forging the beaten meat, kneading at the same time, sprinkling sweet potato flour on the minced meat, and constantly patting the extension.
After shooting, pressing, rolling, folding, whisking, sweeping, cutting and other processes, the skin with a thickness of only two millimeters is finally made, and the size and length of each swallow skin are almost the same.
Prepare a delicious filling made of fresh fish meat and fresh pork hind leg meat, gently roll up one end of the swallow skin, roll the filling into it, and then connect the left and right sides of the swallow skin to the middle, and the meat swallow shaped like a flying swallow is made.
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"For Tang Gong Meat Swallow" is the founder of Alum Mountain Meat Swallow Zhu Wei Tang after decades of continuous attempts and improvements, and finally created a handicraft with local characteristics.
In 2014, the meat swallow making technology was listed as the eighth batch of Cangnan county-level intangible cultural heritage projects, in 2016 Zhu Shiqin was awarded the inheritor of the project, and in August of the same year, it was listed as the tenth batch of intangible cultural heritage projects in Wenzhou.
At present, Tang Gong has also developed meat swallow noodles, meat soup and other snacks, which has become a beautiful landscape in Fude Bay Miners Village, and many tourists come to taste the deliciousness of meat swallows.
Every bowl of meat swallow is a continuation of culture, each continuation is carefully made, it is because of the inheritance of skills, intangible cultural heritage has been continued to this day, the weather is gradually cold, take advantage of leisure, come to the bowl of hot meat swallow to warm the body!