Talk about The old fire soup in Guangdong
Guangdong old fire soup, unique to Guangdong, the old literally understands, is the meaning of a long time, can be interpreted as a soup cooked for a long time, so habitually called Guangdong old fire soup.
First, it belongs to the Eight Major Cuisines of China cantonese cuisine, many soups will put a variety of different materials, put together or stewed, which also includes some different kinds of medicinal materials, so that there will be a role in nourishing the body. Such as healthy spleen appetizer, throat lubrication, warm in the cold, tonic fitness and so on. Therefore, Guangdong old fire soup is not only a delicious food, but also a health food that everyone pursues. Now, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards, Guangdong Old Fire Soup has almost been played to the extreme in terms of health care, and more people pay great attention to this aspect of daily health, prevention and treatment of diseases, post-illness rehabilitation, and health, beauty and many other aspects. This makes people pay more attention to the Guangdong old fire soup, not only the old Canton people love it, people in other places have slowly fallen in love with it.
Second, Guangdong's climate is mainly humid and hot, the humidity is heavier, the weather is hot, Guangdong can not eat peppers and so on to get wet like in the north, only through the soup with food to solve, so Guangdong people believe that soup has the effect of clearing heat and dehumidification.
Guangdong old fire soup, distinguished from the characteristics of cool and hot, usually divides the soup into three categories: clear heat (cool), medium (neutral), hot (warm supplement), all the materials and the soup stew, will be around these properties to expand.
Third, from the production point of view, Guangdong soup can be divided into three categories: one roll, two stews, three old fires.
1, boiling soup (clear soup), in fact, the same as the northern "soup" base, that is, the food is simply boiled in boiling water, the difference may be a little different in materials and taste. Representative ones such as seaweed egg flower soup, pork offal goji leaf soup, etc.
2, stew soup, is the soup in the noble, with a special double cover of the stew cup, generally white porcelain mainly, the various materials added to the stew cup, sealed with paper, put into the steamer or now the special kitchen utensils, separated by water or stewed with steam for several hours, due to the heating evenly long, the taste has another mood. Such as stewed bone soup, chicken soup, ginseng, cordyceps stew soup, etc., this soup is generally based on warm tonic soup.
3, the old fire soup is used in a sand pot, put the corresponding food into the pot, slow fire fine pot, the old fire soup is very particular about the heat, a long time to cook, less than two or three hours, more than a few days, the process of a lot of exquisite details, very elaborate people's skills and patience, will cook beautiful old fire soup people, must be patient people, it can also be said that the old fire soup can make people cultivate their minds, unstable people absolutely cook out of the beautiful soup. (My personal opinion, abrupt, please understand!) ）
Fourth, The "old fire soup" of Cantonese people is well-known at home and abroad, preferring no vegetables, not without soup, no soup without a table, first on the soup, and then on the dish, is the unique way of eating in Guangdong.
Fifth, the material aspect
1, as long as you can eat, the effect is good can be matched, and versatile, eclectic. Such as red dates, goji berries, ginseng, lotus seeds, lilies, peanuts and so on. Cool in spring and summer: jade bamboo, barley, earthworm, five-fingered peach, cattle vigorously. Autumn and winter: Ginseng, Cordyceps sinensis, etc.
2. When Guangdong is a child, he will cook chicken soup and pork knuckle ginger vinegar soup. People who operate on it will cook raw fish soup and so on.
Sixth, Guangdong old fire soup, is the expression of family affection, maintain emotions, Guangdong has an old saying: to retain a person's heart, you must retain the person's stomach. Therefore, Cantonese people, especially Guangdong women who have become a family, it is taboo to say that they cannot cook soup.
Seventh, there is another one that I personally believe that soup is about the heart, the heart, the love, and the love. People in the north and south all say that their mother's dishes are invincible in the world, for no other reason, because the mother is in the family, maternal love is invincible, to the husband, to the children, all pour out their life's love, can the dishes and soups be bad? That's not vegetables and soups, it's love! Thick love!
Eighth, the original taste, fresh ingredients are the soul of Guangdong old fire soup. Note that the warm supplement can not be mixed with the fire (cool) material (typically the radish can not be boiled with ginseng and eaten together), professionals can be properly matched, to achieve another tonic effect, many mothers in life, but also groped out their own skills, so each family's soup has its own advantages.
Nine, Guangdong old fire soup is very deep in learning, can do the ultimate, only the mother, even the chef is impressed. I hope you fall in love with Guangdong Old Fire Soup, love your mother, your wife, your family, and may everyone love each other!