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Hubei Macheng New Year must eat food
- Meat cake
Meat cake is also called fish cake, in fact, fish balls, meatballs can be said to be an accessory to meat cake, if there is too much meat or too much fish, or not enough to steam a drawer of meat cake, simply pinch a pot of balls.
The meat cake is made by steaming sweet potato starch, fish foam and pork foam, and is an indispensable main dish at the Macheng New Year banquet.
In Macheng, the famous "meat cake table", the first dish is meat cake. Whenever there is a banquet, the first dish is always meat cake on top, which is said to symbolize the new high career, family harmony, and smooth wind and rain every year.
As a New Year's product, Macheng meat cake is more often used to entertain guests, and now Macheng still has the saying that "no meat cake is not a table".
The people of Macheng are eager to eat meat cakes in their meals during the first month. In the second year of the first year, when I went to my relatives' houses to visit the New Year, each family would also hold a bowl of yellow flower boiled meat cakes, or chicken soup, rib soup boiled meat cakes. The host will definitely tell you attentively: "Taste how my family's meat cake is made."
Meat cake seems to be simple to do, but in fact, there is a lot of exquisiteness, if the proportion of fish, meat and sweet potato starch is not right, it will not reach the delicious, soft and smooth taste, it is bad, only with chopsticks to clip up the meat cake is perfect.
Meat cakes have no other condiments except salt, and retain the original umami taste of the ingredients, so they should be steamed and eaten, and the taste is the best. Unlike cured fish and bacon, meat cakes are difficult to preserve after the Spring Festival. Therefore, some people simply refrigerate the syrup for meat cakes, and they can take a small steamer basket and eat it at any time.
Speaking of meat cakes, there is also an interesting story. Legend has it that this King of Chu especially loved to eat fish, but he often lost his temper because of the fish's throat stuck in the throat. Later, after separating the fish from the spines, a chef mixed it with pork, chopped it into a puree with condiments, and steamed it into chunks. After the King of Chu ate it, he especially liked it, and the meat cake was born.
Nowadays, meat cake has become a famous dish in macheng area, but also one of the must buy new year goods, in the major bazaars in Macheng have meat cakes for sale, many macheng people not only like to steam to eat, but also like to cook it into hot pot, hanging pot, but also have a different taste.
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The column "Hearing the Taste of the Year" was broadcast by GAC Trumpchi
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