Fujian is a province on the southeast coast of China, across the sea from Taiwan Island, and there are many hills in the north, which can be described as surrounded by mountains and rivers, rich in products, and has bred Fujian cuisine, one of the eight major cuisines in China. There are many delicious special snacks all over Fujian, such as the more familiar Shaxian snacks, and they have already opened shops all over the country.
Among the special snacks in Fujian, the more famous ones are meat swallow, Xiamen shacha noodles, Putian brine noodles, salty time, taro buns and so on. In addition, there is a traditional snack called "soil shoot jelly" with local characteristics, it is a frozen product processed by the local unique product "soil shoot", the appearance is crystal clear and transparent, it is tender and crisp and smooth and not greasy, it is a traditional flavor snack with Fujian characteristics with good color and flavor.
Ant Manor Small Class Topic: Fujian's characteristic traditional snack "soil shoot jelly", what are the raw materials for making it?
Answer: Black earthworms on the tidal flats.
The main ingredient for making "soil shoot jelly" is fresh sea soil shoots, which are not those bamboo shoots that grow on the mountain, but a kind of black earth earthworm on the beach. According to the "Min Miscellaneous Records", "Tu Shoot was born in the sand cave on the beach, and is now produced in the sea cliffs of Quanzhou." "Historically, Jinjiang Anhai is the most famous for its soil shoot jelly, and now Anhai is also the area with the largest production of earthen shoots.
There are many theories about the origin of the jelly, one of which is the most widely circulated. It is said that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, when Zheng Chenggong was recovering Taiwan, because of the shortage of grain and grass, he had to let the soldiers dig up "earthen shoots" on the beach by the sea as military food to make soil shoot soup. However, the soldiers often missed the meal time, and by the time they ate it, the bamboo shoot soup had frozen. But I didn't expect the taste to be good, and after improvement, it formed a clay shoot jelly.
Later, the jelly of earthen shoots spread in the folk and became a seasonal delicacy in many areas of Fujian in winter and spring. The jelly of the earth shoots is grayish white, crystal clear and elastic. You can also eat it with ingredients such as soy sauce, hot sauce, minced garlic, coriander, and tomato slices.
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