The four great inventors of Chinese folk cuisine are Zhuge Liang, Zhu Yuanzhang, Qianlong and Cixi. They found that the methods of food were not the same, Zhuge Liang was a clever move, Qianlong was unintentional, Cixi was in a hurry, only Zhu Yuanzhang was the most miserable, basically in a desperate situation.
Zhu Yuanzhang was the capital of Nanjing, not far from Suzhou, but the people of Suzhou were not very close to this commoner emperor, and the cuisine related to Zhu Yuanzhang was only Zhou Zhuang's "Wansan Hoof".
Moreover, in the story of Zhu Zhongba, the image is particularly bad.
According to legend, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, the whole country avoided talking about pigs (Zhu). Probably when I was a child, my family was not well-off, so I was particularly resentful of the rich.
At that time, there was a rich man in Suzhou named Shen Wansan, who was rich enough to be an enemy of the country, and Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to kill him to make up for the emptiness of his own treasury. Therefore, he deliberately went to Shen Wansan's house as a guest and wanted to find fault.
Shen Wansan entertained Zhu Yuanzhang with pig's trotters, and after Zhu Yuanzhang saw it, he deliberately embarrassed Shen Wansan and asked him how to eat this, because it was the whole hoof, which was not cut open, if Shen Wansan used a knife, then Zhu Yuanzhang could justifiably punish his sin (meaning killing pigs).
However, Shen Wansan had a clever move, pulled out a thin bone from his hoof, and cut the flesh with bone, solving Zhu Yuanzhang's problem. There is also a traditional way to eat wansan hooves.
Zhu Yuanzhang ate it and thought it was delicious, so he asked Shen Wansan what the name of this dish was, Shen Wansan thought that it could not be said that it was called pig's trotter, so he patted his thigh and said, This is Wansan's hoof, so Wansan's hoof got its name.
The specific practice of this three-hoofed calf is not complicated, and it can be done at home.
Boil the pork knuckle in a pot of water until it is five ripe, wipe the water off the skin, smear sugar on it while it is hot, cool it slightly, put it in 80% or 90% hot oil and fry it until it is slightly red, fish out the control oil, and use a knife to wedge the meat surface into walnut-shaped pieces (deep to the skin).
Heat the bottom oil in the pot, add sugar to fry until it is dark red, add clear soup, rice wine, soy sauce, refined salt, green onion ginger, pork knuckle, use peppercorns, large ingredients, cinnamon, sand kernels, cardamom, cloves, grass fruits, cumin, make a medicine bag and put it in the pot, simmer it with slow heat until it is eight ripe, take out the pork knuckle, the skin is facing down, enlarge the bowl with the original soup, green onion and ginger, expand the steam until it is crisp, decant the soup, and buckle the pork knuckle on the plate.
Bring the original soup to a boil with MSG in a spoon, rinse with wet starch, drizzle with peppercorn oil and pour over pork knuckles. When eating, a thin bone knife is used in the hoof.
It is said that the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have a general perception of the Ming Dynasty, and in the folk stories they heard as children, the image of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has always been bad.
For example, the Chongzhen Emperor, a frequent guest of Ming's novels, his empress surname is Zhou, is a native of Suzhou. It is reasonable to say that Zhu Youjian can also be regarded as the son-in-law of Suzhou, but the people of Suzhou are very fierce when they are black. And folklore, many of which are different from history.
In the Suzhou story, Chongzhen is a dimwitted monarch like the Sui Emperor (everyone knows that the Sui Emperor was also very blackened), poor and extravagant, indulging in female sex, and liking to mutilate Zhongliang.
Li Zicheng came to Beijing, and he was still drinking and watching the beauty dance.
It was not until after the city was destroyed that he hanged himself in despair, and in the end only one eunuch of Wang Cheng'en was martyred.
Because in the story, Wang Cheng'en moved his feet when he hanged chongzhen, and there is also a saying in the mouth of old Suzhou that "hanging and moving feet".
Later, after reading the history books, of course, I knew that Zhu Youjian had been diligent and earnest for more than ten years, although his level was limited, but his style of life was indeed no problem, and after he took the throne for a few years, his hair was gray and crow's feet grew out of the corners of his eyes. Shi Zhishang said that "the chickens chirped, the night did not sleep, often became anxious, and there was no feast in the palace."
Basically, he didn't eat meat, because although he was the emperor, he was very poor and really couldn't afford to eat.
In addition to the dragon robe used to support the scene, he wore coarse cloth clothes, and when it was broken, the empress had to patch him, which was much more frugal compared with the Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty who patched five or two pieces of silver.
Although there is a certain difference between the image of the history books and the image of the people, the people of Suzhou have a lot of hatred and resentment towards the old Zhu family, and they have been blackmailed for hundreds of years.
For the later Qing Dynasty, Suzhou people liked it.
In history, Qianlong has visited Jiangnan six times, and each time he must go to Suzhou, and there are still many places of interest and monuments about this famous loser and bullet screen maniac in Chinese history.
For example, the Lion Grove, with inscriptions "Really interesting" and "interesting" stories.
Another example is Tianping Mountain, such as Mudu Ancient Town, and so on.
Since he came to travel, it was inevitable to eat, and because he was an emperor, he naturally left a legend.
Legends. According to legend, during the Qianlong period, a shopkeeper surnamed Zhang opened a red soup noodle restaurant in Fengqiao Market Town.
One afternoon, on the way to buy ingredients, the owner of the Zhang shop saw a middle-aged woman, because the money for the medicine for her father was stolen and was sad, the owner of the Shop Zhang gave her all the money on her body. After returning to the shop in the evening, I remembered that the next day there was no ingredient for the noodles, and I was depressed while drinking wine and pouring sorrow while hanging the soup and burning toppings, and in my drowsiness, I mistakenly poured the remaining wine into the pot.
The next morning, I woke up and found that the white stewed meat without soy sauce and other spices was actually fragrant, and since then I have been mainly engaged in white soup noodles.
One year, Qianlong xia Jiangnan coincided with the summer, after touring the Hanshan Temple, passed by Fengqiao, followed the aroma into the store to eat noodles, so there was Qianlong food story at the end of the often appeared "Longyan Dayue", and gave the name "Fengzhen White Soup Big Meat Noodles".
In the following 300 years, Fengzhen is well-known and well-known to the world.
Most of the noodles in Suzhou are soup noodles with toppings.
This bowl of Fengqiao large meat noodle soup is made by boiling eel bones, shrimp brain, and snail meat into a gauze bag and meat bones together in a pot.
And that piece of large meat, suzhou people call stewed meat, is pork rib meat with peppercorns, fennel, green onion ginger, cooking wine, salt and simmer for 4 hours and then out of the pot sliced.
Wash the noodles, put them in the soup, sprinkle some green onions, and spread a piece of stewed meat to serve.
The stewed meat should be buried in the noodles for a while to soak soft, and then it will be more fragrant to eat.
Maple bridge large meat noodles are called white soup noodles because they do not use soy sauce when seasoning and the soup is clarified.
Suzhou's stewed meat, there are other methods, if the stir-fry color, coupled with the old soy sauce, is another charm.
The noodle soup of the Su-style noodle restaurant, in addition to the white soup with maple bridge meat noodles, there is also a kind of red soup.
Suzhou people eat noodle soup in the morning, suzhou proverb cloud: "The bath should be muddy soup, and the noodles should be soup." , which means that you should eat noodles early.
Some gourmets, if they eat a bowl of noodle soup with noodle soup, will be uncomfortable all day.
Suzhou people's love for the emperor of the Qing Dynasty really exists in all aspects, at least the black cat has never heard of a story of the Qing Dynasty, the image of the emperor is not good.
What's wrong with that, I've always been puzzled.
What is even more puzzling is that the Republic of China era seems to be missed by Suzhou people.
Looking at the Republic of China-style buildings near Zhangmen, the girls wearing the Costumes of the Republic of China students show the style of the Republic of China, and there is always a sense of powerlessness that cannot be expressed in words.
People who like to read the history of Zhengshi and do not like to read 140-word Weibo will have this feeling.