Before the fifteenth year, the "crystal meat" of one of the three monsters of Zhenjiang is not only an indispensable souvenir for citizens to visit relatives and friends, but also an indispensable delicacy on the people's table. In the face of uneven meat in the market, how should the public distinguish between purchases? What is the difference between "crystal meat" and "crystal hoof"? Note that today's meat has clear quality standards.
Zhenjiang cuisine, also known as "crystal dish meat", also known as "crystal dish hoof", referred to as dish meat, is a well-known Chinese and foreign Zhenjiang famous dish. It is listed together with Zhenjiang pot lid noodles and Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar as the "Three Monsters of Zhenjiang". In particular, the pork of Yanchun Restaurant, a century-old restaurant in Zhenjiang, is a representative of "Zhenjiang cuisine". Not only in Zhenjiang women and children are well known, but also fragrant to the north and south of the river. Every Spring Festival, it has become the first choice for Zhenjiang people to give gifts to relatives.
But what kind of meat is authentic? It is rumored that the crystal hoof is developed on the basis of the ancient dish "cooking pig" and "crystal cold tao", using pig trotters, and after being transformed by posterity, the selection of Zhenjiang hoofs has become more and more exquisite.
President of Zhenjiang Catering and Culinary Association Chairman of Yanchun Restaurant Wu Rongsheng
The three monsters of Zhenjiang must be hooves. In the past, it was strictly necessary to use the front hooves of the pig, other parts were not easy to do, only with the front hooves of the pig to maintain its product characteristics, product taste, color and flavor shape can reach this standard.
According to Wu Rongsheng, in recent years, the "meat" industry has become "Tang monk meat", and all kinds of food production enterprises have poured in, and the quality of the meat on the market has been uneven for a while. In the meantime, due to the negative public opinion of "everything shattered into slag", the prestigious Zhenjiang cuisine was also "implicated". There used to be more than 20 local enterprises in Zhenjiang that produced pork, but last year, due to the impact of the epidemic and rising pork prices, the number of enterprises producing pork in Zhenjiang was only single digits.
In order to protect and pass on the intangible cultural heritage of meat making. With the participation of zhenjiang municipal market supervision and administration bureau standards department, Zhenjiang catering service industry association, Jiangsu University and food and drug testing center, the group standard of "Zhenjiang Crystal Dish Hoof" was formulated and issued. First of all, the hoof is distinguished from the ordinary dish meat. According to the standard, Zhenjiang crystal hoof takes pig's front elbow as the main raw material, and is made by the main processes such as pickling, boiling, pressing, scalding oil, hardening, etc., thus solidifying the production process of crystal hoof.
Wu Guojie, chairman of Jiangsu Yuanchun Food Development Co., Ltd
Crystal meat, such as other brands, are made of meat, so there is a difference between materials and traditional production processes and other crystal dishes, and there are standards that can go further.
Shao Guoxing, Director of the Standardization Management Division of Zhenjiang Market Supervision and Administration Bureau
Consumers can look at the standard of product implementation above the outer packaging of its product, which standard, and can also judge through the specific sensory indicators in this standard, through the appearance, aroma, taste to identify.
Enterprises have production standards, and consumers have selection standards. According to reports, the standardized production of crystal hoof lean meat rose red, fat white, brine transparent like agate; the meat is fragrant, with a unique fat flavor aftertaste; on the taste, fat but not greasy, crisp and delicious, food is not stuffed, salty and moderate. Not only that, some physical and chemical and microbial content related to food safety also have strict quantitative standards.
We have such a feature in Zhenjiang, we can only do it well, we must do a good job, it is our local business card, it is our local culture, it is the cultural heritage left by the ancestors, we as the producers of the industry, operators We must have social responsibility, we must do it well.
At present, there are 7 pork production enterprises in Zhenjiang, with an annual output value of about 100 million yuan. The release of industry group standards will promote the benign development of these production enterprises and facilitate the inheritance of crystal hoof making skills.