Before the Spring Festival holiday last year, I made an appointment with my friend QingLie, who had not seen him for a long time, talking about the location of the meeting, we both said that it was about to be on Shengzhou Road, he said that he was going to Anpin Street Antique City to see a few interesting rubbings, I said that I was going to go to the Lamei Factory Store in Denglong Lane to buy a few fragrant belly to eat, and our destination was a hundred and ten meters apart, so coincidentally.
Chatting and chatting about the fragrant belly, Qinglie said that he had been eating Benxi's double-flowered belly in the past, and had not eaten it for many years after settling in Nanjing, and he did not expect that Nanjing also had real estate belly.
Nanjing does have a unique real estate belly, although it is called fragrant belly, but compared with the Northeast chinese belly, from the method to the flavor is not the same thing.
Supermarket sells belly
Nanjing fragrant belly is believed to be born in Caixia Street in the south of Nanjing during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and it is recorded in Yuan Ming's "Suiyuan Food List". I remember when I was a child, I could only eat fragrant belly during the New Year's Festival, and I was under the impression that fragrant belly was a more advanced and ritualistic food than sausage.
Before going to the supermarket with my wife and children, I saw that there was a fragrant belly for sale in the supermarket, and I asked my daughter if she liked to eat the belly, and she said that she had not eaten this thing. Since my daughter doesn't know what a fragrant belly is, it is estimated that our family should have not eaten fragrant belly for more than ten years.
I bought a bag to cook for my daughter to eat, on the one hand to introduce her to traditional foods, on the other hand to give myself a nostalgia.
Supermarket belly
The reality is very cruel, the introduction of the fragrant belly is very unsuccessful, the daughter said that the fragrant belly is not a spherical sausage, did not eat anything exquisite.
This time the belly is indeed not good, the meat is ground meat, but also mixed with starch, the taste is certainly not as good as the original cut meat cubes, seasoning on the way of the general Su-style sausage, there is no highlight. My daughter's evaluation is very accurate, it is a sausage made into a ball, and it is a low-end sausage that is not exquisite in seasoning.
The introduction of the tripe failed, I think it was because I bought the wrong tripe. This time to eat the belly produced from an unknown remote small factory in Yangzhou area, and my memory of the belly is "Lamei" brand, from the Shengzhou Road Denglong Lane that is called lamei food factory of the old factory, decades of production and processing experience and seasoning in the material seasoning is not comparable to the nameless small factory, I want to invite my daughter to eat a can represent the highest level of the mammy authentic lamei belly, so this has a covenant with Qinglie's Shengzhou Road.
Lamei Factory Store Department
The former state-run Lamei Food Factory, like other state-owned factories, has long been unrecognizable, and the former factory building is now an antique city. Now the store of lamei factory is near the south entrance of Denglong Lane on Shengzhou Road, and I heard the clerk in the store say that the factory has long been moved to Jiangning.
In addition to the traditional goods such as sausages, there are other salty goods such as bacon and duck for sale in the store, and most of the customers in the store listen to the accents of old residents of Nanjing, probably like me, with old feelings for the old taste.
Plum belly
The clerk was very conscientious and told every guest who bought the belly that the tripe should be hung in a ventilated place to dry, and could not be stored in a plastic bag. At this point I know, the belly is thick and not as dry as the sausage, so it will be moldy and deteriorated when you put it in a plastic bag. It is also good to be not as dry as sausages, and hanging in a ventilated place can allow the belly to continue to ferment, which can produce a salty and umami taste like ham.
Pickled and fermented things like dried tempeh, sauce, ham and so on will more or less taste a little, and the same is true for the belly, so the night the tripe was taken home was criticized by the wife and children, according to the wife," the smell of the family smelled. For so many years, we did not have the habit of hanging food out to dry, and the belly was hung at home, and the taste was indeed a little bad.
I quickly cooked two fragrant belly for them to taste, and with a bad impression of the smell, the fragrant belly lost a lot of points in their minds. I tasted it carefully, and the meat filled with fragrant belly was obviously the original cut meat, full of flesh, and due to fermentation, it did have more salty and fresh flavor than sausage. Although the seasoning has a sweet taste, I think the overall taste is very salty, much saltier than the average sausage.
If you think about it, the belly is not dry enough, and if it is not salty enough, I am afraid it will be easy to deteriorate.
The authentic plum belly also failed, failing to impress young people of the new era like my daughter. I took the remaining two fragrant sausages to my mother and cooked them, young people can't appreciate it, middle-aged and elderly people should be able to appreciate it.
Fragrant belly cooked and cut well served on the table, parents and my sister are very happy, said that it is a familiar old taste, everyone ate a few pieces after the atmosphere is not so cheerful, my sister tilted her head and thought for half a day to ask me, the past belly taste is so heavy ...