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Chinese's wordmaking is interesting. Just like the word "eat tofu", sometimes eating tofu is delicious, but sometimes "eating tofu" is a crime. So this tofu, you can't eat it casually. Just like a woman, you can't casually pick it up, talk about it well, call it a mood, it's not good, that's harassment.
Fortunately, Tiger is a man of moral purity. When we eat tofu, we eat tofu, not "eat tofu".
It's a joke.
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Although the tiger is meatless and unhappy, he also likes to eat tofu, especially the one-flavored Eight Treasure Tofu Box in Boshan, his hometown. When I was a child, every time before the Spring Festival, my mother had to do some to prepare for the New Year. Relatives and friends came, more than ten on the plate, steamed, hooked a debt, is a good dish to drink. And Boshan people also love this mouth, the New Year will be prepared in advance, foreign friends come, please go to the restaurant, must have this tofu box, even if it is on the "four or four seats", it is also a "line dish".
Making tofu boxes is a time-consuming and labor-intensive thing, first of all, you must use Boshan local sour pulp or salt brine point of tofu to do, Boshan water sweet and clear, water quality is hard, made of tofu tight and strong, only such tofu, no matter how to cook, not collapsed, but also to make a shape like "treasure box", and delicious. As for the gypsum tofu of the South? That's a no-no.
At that time, hearing the sound of tofu sellers knocking on hollow wooden poles on the street, my mother sent us children to carry a pot of soybeans to change tofu, and the soybeans were poured into the sack selling tofu, and a piece of snow-white steaming tofu was brought home by us in the basin.
The tofu is first soaked in light salt water by the mother, saying that it is to remove the bean smell, and then cut into five or two inches long, one inch wide rectangular block, and then in the small stove room, sit on the oil pan, fry it into a golden and brilliant skin hard block, wield a sharp blade, use a knife to stick to the long side of the fried tofu block to open three sides, leave one side of the connection not to break, make a "box lid", open the "box lid" with a small spoon to dig out the tofu "inside the box", it becomes a "tofu box box" with a cover.
The stuffing inside is fried by the mother long ago, the pork and the soaked fungus sea rice are chopped, the oil in the pot is hot, the minced onion and ginger and the minced sea rice are fried in a pot to fry the aroma, and then the minced pork is fried, the soy sauce salt sand kernel sesame oil is adjusted to taste good, and finally out of the pot to mix the wood ear mushrooms into it, then the winter leeks can be golden, if you can add a pinch of minced leeks, it is more fragrant. If you want to eat vegetarian, you will chop up the tofu you just dug out of the tofu box instead of minced pork. Finally, put the fried stuffing into the hollowed out "box", and the three fresh and vegetarian stuffed tofu boxes are ready.
If you go to a restaurant, you will pay attention to it. In addition to the three fresh and vegetarian stuffed tofu boxes, there are also seafood and assorted tofu boxes, etc., to use chicken, pork, shiitake mushrooms, ham, shrimp, mushrooms, fungus, winter shoots eight flavors, or diced or minced, seasoned into eight treasure fillings into the "box", that is, Boshan's eight treasures tofu box. Delicious and the name is auspicious. Even the shapes are varied, except for square, heart-shaped lantern-shaped and even meta-treasure-like ones.
To eat, set up a steamer, make a fierce fire, put the tofu box in a soup dish, steam thoroughly, but also stir-fry a sauce poured, this pouring sauce is the traditional Boshan stir-fried meat slices method, with minced garlic frying pot, cooking Boshan local vinegar, soy sauce, add salt, sugar, pepper, sand kernel noodles, into the tomato pieces, cucumber slices, vegetable flowers, magnolia slices, fungus, and steamed soup when steaming the "tofu box", boil, and then use water starch to thin the mustard, poured on the "tofu box", a tofu box is good. Food, sour, salty, spicy, sweet, bitter, fragrant, fresh, strange eight flavors of one. It's full of raw flavor and delicious.
There is also a legendary practice, saying that in the early years of the Republic of China, there was a "Tongxinju" restaurant in the head of Boshan Mountain, Li Tongxin, who changed the plate of the tofu box from "box type" to a four-story small box stacked "tower style", pouring spirits on the plate, known as "Water Flooding Jinshan Temple", when it was served, it lit the spirits, and the aroma was suddenly overflowing, and the white lady smelled it, and there were names such as "Reflecting the Golden Mountain" and "Burning the Golden Mountain".
Tigers in this form have never been eaten. But a few days ago, by chance, I took a picture of someone else's recipe.
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Boshan also has a delicacy that looks like a large tofu box, called dry crispy fish. It is the Boshan crispy fish pot and Boshan tofu box made into a dish, it is very wonderful, tofu fried into large pieces, hollowed out, side knife, side connected, dug out of the tofu, into a tofu box, but like a crispy fish pot in turn to add pork belly slices, white lotus root slices, kelp square slices, fried mackerel fillets, and then the pig's trotter cabbage spread on the bottom of the pot, put in the packed tofu box, add soy sauce aged vinegar, white wine soy sauce, all kinds of spices, simmered over slow heat until cooked, cool through ice, sliced plate, really delicious. This tiger will write a separate article, not much to say.
In fact, the dish of Boshan tofu box belongs to a kind of "stuffed dish". Jiangnan gluten stuffed meat, oil tofu inlaid meat, eight treasure tofu bags, also belong to the same as the tofu box of the same practice and taste, especially the eight treasure tofu bags, fried yellow and brilliant, hollowed out, with the stuffing filled drum fat fat, and then with a hot leek tied, steamed, poured juice, is also very delicious and good-looking. There are also Hakka fried tofu fried bitter melon stuffed peppers and stuffed eggplant... There are also many, many places in the south that tigers have been to, which can be said to be all-encompassing "brewing" and delicious.
And to say the most delicate "stuffed vegetables", the tiger has to say two, one is the stuffed snail, that is really "snail shell to do the dojo", and the other is the stuffed bean in the Kongfu cuisine, the bean sprouts that have been removed from the head and tail are hollowed out, and the chicken mushrooms and ham are brewed inside, and the oil is drizzled, red and white, and the color and fragrance are excellent. Such a fine workmanship is not like cooking, but closer to the art of micro-carving.
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Regarding the origin of Boshan tofu box, there are many stories and legends. But the tiger loves to think blindly, the tiger has seen too many things in the name of the so-called celebrity to attach the food, what Qianlong Cixi Dongpo, is nothing more than the folklore of the people, just laugh and pass. The true origin must be documented in writing and history.
While examining the origin of the Boshan tofu box, the tiger found that a dish called box tofu appeared in the Qianlong Emperor's menu many times.
The "Jiangnan Festival As Usual Meal Bottom File" records the meals and drinks of the Qianlong Emperor when he inspected Jiangnan in the thirtieth year of Qianlong.
Among them, the breakfast on the 26th day of leap February is recorded as follows:
At the beginning, please drive, wait for a taste of rock sugar stewed bird's nest.
At the third moment of the first month, Li'an Temple entered the morning meal, and used a folding table to set it up: duck eight fresh inlaid box tofu products; bird's nest fire smoked fat chicken one product; lamb slices one product; lamb char siu roast lamb tripe save plate one product; spoon dumpling red cake one product; bee cake one product; bamboo roll small steamed bun one product; silver sunflower box small dish one product; silver dish small dish four products; accompanied by lamb slices hot japonica rice millet rice meal one product, gold silk powder soup one product. Two tables of food: two products of tits; ten products of gluttony; one table of twelve products. The inner tube leads four products of stove food, four products of plate food, and one table of eight products.
After entering the end, the queen saved a plate of meat a pint, a pin of tofu in the guifei box, a pin of steamed fat chicken for concubines, and a pin of mutton slices for concubines.
Another time was the breakfast on the eighteenth day of the first month, which was recorded as follows:
卯正, please drive the waiter, rock sugar stew bird's nest a pint.
At the second moment of the second moment, Zhuozhou Palace entered the breakfast and used a folding table to set it up: the empress dowager gave a hot pot of stir-fried chicken and stewed sauerkraut, a product of roasted duck in a bird's nest pot, and a product of pork stuffed buns. Bird's nest fat chicken hanging stove duck wild intention hot pot one product, box tofu one product, lamb slices one product, lamb wu and roast lamb tripe plate one product, bamboo roll small steamed bun first product, roasted sacrifice god cake one product, silver sunflower box side dish one product, silver plate side dish one product. Uploaded feng Ding to do: duck shredded meat shredded japonica rice noodles a pin, duck tofu soup a pin.
In the "Nine White Feasts" of the Manchu Han Dynasty, the tiger also found the name of the box tofu, which is one of the four hot dishes.
The "Nine White Feasts" began during the Kangxi Dynasty. When the Kangxi Dynasty first designated the Four Tribes of The Mongol Outer Sacsks, these tribes, in order to show their loyalty, paid tribute to nine whites every year, that is, one white camel and eight white horses. Take this as a letter. After the Mongol tribes paid tribute, the emperor gave the imperial banquet to entertain the envoys, called the "Nine White Feasts". Every year, it is routine. Later, the Daoguang Emperor once wrote a poem for this purpose: "Four even silver flowers and one jade camel, the Western Qiang Dynasty dedicated emperor Jingluo." ”
Beauty Tea: Boiling Milk Tea
Four dried fruits: sesame sugar, rock sugar walnuts, spiced almonds, pineapple gummies.
Candied fruit four products: candied longan, candied Laiyang pear, candied diamond horn, candied betel nut.
Four pieces of glutinous rice cake, kidney bean roll, pigeon glass cake, cream pineapple jelly.
Four pickles: Beijing spicy vegetables, spicy cucumber strips, sweet and spicy dried, sherry.
Seven appetizers: Pine Crane Longevity, Mustard Duck Palm, Spicy Quail, Sesame Fish, Cashew Parsley Heart, Fresh Mushroom in Oil, Tomato with Honey Sauce.
A meal soup: Clam soup.
Imperial dish: Braised unicorn noodles.
Stir-fried four products: drum plate dragon crab, spicy hoof tendon, oolong spit beads, three fresh dragon and phoenix balls.
Two products of gluttony: wood rhinoceros cake, jade noodle gourd.
Imperial dish: Golden Toad Jade Abalone
Four hot stir-fried products: mountain bracken, salt fried meat, fragrant roast roe deer ridge, lake rice russet white.
Two products: Golden Horn, Crystal Plum Blossom Packet.
A piece of imperial cuisine: colorful stir-fried hump
Stir-fried four products: wild duck peach kernels, stir-fried squid, box tofu, crispy fried golden cake.
Rao Erpin: The Great Rescue, Lotus Roll.
Grilled two products: guinea fowl in the oven, roasted deer breast.
Porridge: Lotus seed porridge.
Fruit 1 product: A fruit platter at the right time.
Farewell to Fragrant Tea: Dongting BiluoChun.
Later, Yuan Hongqi, an expert in the study of the palace court of the Forbidden City, found the practice of the dish of box tofu in the "Imperial Tea Room • Bottom File", "using parsley, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, lotus seeds, red dates, amaranth and other raw materials into the fried tofu, because the tofu is box-shaped, which contains a variety of raw materials of the filling, it looks very much like the ancient women's grooming mirror box, so it got the name - box tofu." ”
Seeing Yuan Hongqi's description of the practice and shape of this box of tofu, tiger felt that the relationship with the Boshan tofu box must be very deep.
The tiger suddenly remembered the two men of Boshan. One was Sun Tingquan, a generation of imperial teachers who had been a teacher to Kangxi when he was a child. One was Sun Baozheng, the eldest son of Sun Tingquan, who had served as the head of the Guanglu Temple, in charge of the palace's diet.
There is a legend that the Qianlong Emperor passed through Shandong on the sixth day of the Jiangnan River, and once went to Yanshen Town (present-day Boshan) to visit the former residence of Sun Tingquan, a scholar of the Kangxi Inner Secretariat Academy. The Sun family made a "Boshan tofu box" hospitality, and the Qianlong Emperor praised it, and since then, the Boshan tofu box has been famous all over the world. But such a major event, the historical data is not available, this legend is not credible. It is also said that the tofu box was created by Zhang Dengke, a chef from The Xianfeng Dynasty, who returned from the capital to entertain friends, but with the Qingqianlong "Imperial Tea Room • Dining Bottom File" first, Zhang Dengke's statement is not credible.
Then there is a possibility, that is, Sun Bao still brings the palace meal "box tofu" back to Boshan, the folk are not as exquisite as the palace, and the folk do not know what the mirror box is, after the localization of Boshan, to become small to affordable, to replace the common name with the elegant name, to replace the vegetables and fruits with meat filling, and finally become "box tofu", and there is another reason, because the Boshan water quality is hard, so the language pronunciation is not rolled tongue, for example, the table and chair chopsticks do not have a "zi" sound, directly say table and chair chopsticks, the box is the same, "box tofu" is also done "Box tofu", so the meaning of the name of the dish is not very clear, so it was finally called "tofu box", also without the "sub" sound, but also because the water quality is hard, so the Boshan diet is mostly neutralized by acid, and the oil powder sour pancake is not so, so the dish is also sour. This is the same reason why Shanxi people love to be jealous. Because of this, the pouring sauce of the Boshan tofu box is also the practice of sour and salty fried meat slices.
It seems that there are some eyebrows, but it is still the tiger's speculation.
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Tiger also read an article, saying that Zhu Yilu, a famous chef at The Western Metallurgical Workshop, created a "hawthorn box", using the traditional Baobo Mountain folk pastry hawthorn cake shape, filled with walnuts, sesame seeds, lotus seeds and other fillings, typical sweet food, smooth and delicate, sweet and slightly sour, appetizing and digesting.
Tigers are eager to try.
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But I said so much nonsense, really, I have eaten a lot of restaurants, I have eaten a lot of tofu boxes, the best tofu boxes in tiger memory, or my mother made it for me when I was a child. My mother has been gone for 30 years and I miss her a lot.
Longjiang cuisine is largely influenced by Jinglu cuisine, I don't know which one in Harbin can still eat this "tofu box"? Welcome foodie friends to leave a message saying what !!!