Snacks are called snacks though
But not stingy at all
Some are not even seen in general
For example, "ginger juice steak fork"
Ginger juice steak fork, also known as ginger shredded steak fork, ginger crispy steak fork, honey steak fork, do not like to eat ginger porcelain, listen to the name will feel a headache, right?
But you don't be deterred by its name and ginger taste, since ancient times, there are "eat radish in winter and eat ginger in summer, don't need a doctor to prescribe medicine" and "ginger cures all diseases", so eating some ginger appropriately is excellent for the body.
Today, together with the cultural tourism jun, in the narration of a generation of snack master Feng Huaishen, I picked up the old taste of the old Beijing snack time...
The following is Mr. Feng Huaishen's self-report
Think of the days when I made ginger steak forks, and there was a popular saying called "chicken butt is the bank, dried sweet potatoes are dry food". Almost every family raises chickens, not to eat chickens, and people in the city raise chickens, in order to produce and sell themselves, saving money to buy eggs. Rural people raise chickens in exchange for eggs for money. The countryside is red once a year, and the last day of work only earns two or three cents. A year later, buy a grain, add a coat, where is the money to buy ginger juice steak fork ah!
Moreover, having money does not necessarily mean eating. Because to wait. Wait for the twice-yearly Longfu Temple Snack Festival.
We have a snack bar at Longfu Temple, and there are snack festivals twice a year. At this time, the old ladies of the shop must make more than a hundred kinds of snacks and fill the shelves. Among them is the ginger steak fork.
It is an ancient snack, a refreshment eaten by the Manchu nobility. I didn't eat it when I was a kid. Even now, some chefs have not eaten.
The average chef will not do it.
It's not that the masters don't teach, it's that the words are too detailed, and there is no need to do it in general. Ginger juice fork is also very squeamish, easy to de-honey. Once the honey is removed, this job cannot be taken out. So it must be the guest who orders it, and the chef specially makes it fresh. And noodles, sitting in the oil pot, this takes time, you can't come to the chef to open the stove, so it must be a set of hardware and software specially prepared in the store to make ginger steaks. That's not the strength that an average store can have.
But when it comes to snack festivals, it must be done. The masters shook their spirits and did their best to brighten up their craftsmanship. Ginger sauce steak fork was the hit item at that time.
Each snack festival lasts for half a month. That was the shopping festival of the 1970s. It can be much more popular than the current "Double Eleven" and "Double Twelve".
At that time, we did not distinguish between singles and doubles, and lined up in large groups every day.
People who are usually more frugal, in these days, are like big money. People rushed to throw the food stamps and money they had saved from their usual savings to the cashier with sleeves. Every day, the shelves are empty from afternoon to afternoon. Those who come early can buy ginger sauce steak forks. Because this has to be done on the spot, the back kitchen will close the fire to leave work at a point, and it is late, but you have to wait for tomorrow to please be early. If this half month is late every day, then wait for half a year, and then please be early.
At that time, in our eyes, the people who bought ginger juice and forks belonged to people who could not live a life, and often could not understand them. On the food stamps and money in hand, do not buy something that can be stored, manage to be full, and buy this ginger juice that can not be stored and cannot be eaten, it is really a luxury.
And those who are willing to wait to eat ginger juice can't understand us either. Such a delicate and wonderful thing, you don't even do it every day, it is simply near the water tower to look down and not see the moon!
Ginger juice is very beautiful.
Crystal clear and bright.
The taste is also particularly exquisite.
Sweet and crisp.
The production is very skilled.
In the past, noodles were used with alum, and honey was not used for fresh ginger. After I learned it, I improved it. Remove the alum and mix the honey with fresh ginger. The benefit of this is that it is healthier, dilutes the bitterness of ginger, and also retains the aroma of ginger.
I first boil the juice with delicious and caramel, and when I boil, add a little sugar. The ginger juice that comes out of this way is exceptionally bright. After the forks are fried, go through the honey for a while, and then hang the boiled ginger juice on the fried forks. Finally, sprinkle with preserved fruit, green plum hawthorn, pretty color, to make the taste more abundant. It tastes a bit like honey twist, but the inside of the shell is crisp.
Dirty bags and macarons can bloom overnight, and I hate that everyone can buy them. This ginger juice is a row of forks, and it has never blossomed everywhere.
What was golden and expensive in the past is still expensive now.
Ginger sauce steak fork making
Raw materials
Flour, fresh ginger, sugar, caramel, osmanthus flowers, peanut oil, baking soda, water, fruit
peculiarity
The color is pale yellow, wrapped in a layer of caramel, bright and non-sticky, small and delicate, crystal clear, crisp and sweet, with a strong fresh ginger flavor.
Scan the QR code to see how to make ginger juice forks
Sources
"Snack Art: Old Beijing Snacks in Memory"
Feng Huaishen