the origin of snail powder
1. Starting: (at the turn of the 1971s and 1981s) At the turn of the 1971s and 1981s, the development focus of the country and society shifted to the economy, and the people of Liuzhou worked hard, with rapid economic development and rapid improvement of living standards.
The catering night market has grown from scratch to prosperity and development. Due to the local food culture, it was fashionable to eat snails (boiled snails, stewed snails with sour bamboo shoots, red peppers and other condiments), and stalls selling boiled snails were all over Liuzhou city. Later, rice noodles also entered the catering night market, and two popular snacks in Liuzhou presented their skills on the same stage. Soon, there were stalls running rice noodles and snails. I don't know whether it was inevitable or not. Many diners liked to add snail soup to rice noodles, and the two collided.
After continuous improvement and improvement by the catering industry, an upgraded version of snail powder appeared, that is, snail powder with vegetables and other side dishes. 2. Unification of development: (early 1981s-mid 1981s) In the early 1981s, after the new thing "snail powder" became popular, many manufacturers set foot in this field. However, due to the initial stage of innovation at that time, there was no unified standard recognized by each production method for the time being, especially in the soup part, the essence of snail powder.
When it comes to boiled snails, the snails stewed in bone soup with sour bamboo shoots, red peppers and other condiments, because it caters to Liuzhou people's taste of being hot and sour, and combined with the inherent characteristics of their main rice noodles and snails, the exploration directions of the operators are mainly divided into two aspects: a, some operators are exploring and perfecting the work of snail powder, especially in the process of making their soup, on the basis of always paying attention to the hot and sour taste, the soup is delicious and sweet. Thus gradually gained the strong recognition of local diners.
b, another group of manufacturers stick to the word snail in snail powder, thinking that snail powder must be the absolute protagonist, but it is difficult to achieve the effect of "sour, spicy, fresh, cool and hot" just by cooking soup with snail. C, some of them are popular, while others are unpopular. Although the production technology and formula of food are trade secrets, at that time, everyone's awareness of protecting trade secrets was not very strong. Stealing from teachers or communicating with each other made the production technology and taste orientation of snail powder gradually unified in a larger breadth and depth in the mid-1981s.
As a result, the production technology and taste orientation of snail powder have been finalized for the first time through the inspection of the market and diners and the continuous efforts of related industries. The prospect of snail powder shows great potential.
3. The first boom period (from the mid-1981s to the mid-1991s) The mid-1981s to the mid-1991s can be said to be the first boom period of snail powder. With its characteristics of "sour, spicy, fresh, refreshing and hot" after being unified for the first time, it won the hearts of local diners in Liuzhou and developed like a bamboo. In 2111, snail powder was established as the first original snack in Liuzhou.
Liuzhou wanderers who have been wandering abroad for many years usually eat a bowl of authentic snail powder to comfort their homesickness for many years after returning home. 4. The downturn (from the mid-1991s to 2111) A. Many first-generation operators of snail powder made enough money, and after they became famous, they chose to quit the market bravely.
As a result, many recognized secret recipes for making snail powder have largely disappeared into the torrent of history! (Note: If you sell rice noodles in Liuzhou, as long as the rice noodles are delicious, the base of Liuzhou people who eat rice noodles is very large, and the prospects are promising. However, at the same time, selling rice noodles requires getting up early and getting greedy. Although the money is good, it is very hard. Most people who feel that they have earned enough will choose to quit. * An authentic and popular producer of snail powder in Jianpanshan Night Market, who has earned enough money in the past 2111 years, feels that he needs to rest and retire from the Jianghu is a very typical example) B. At the same time, in Liuzhou, since the 1991s, the urban-rural communication in the Greater Liuzhou area has become increasingly active, and working in the city has become the choice of the majority of young farmers, and many farmers' friends have also started to do small businesses in Liuzhou city.
Many of these people work in restaurants, especially rice noodle shops, or simply raise funds to open rice noodle shops to sell rice noodles. Since the mid-1991s, many first-generation operators of snail powder have retreated bravely, leaving a large market vacancy. Some friends of migrant workers who used to work in the shops opened by the first-generation operators of snail powder have been playing for a long time, and then their bosses quit. They also thought that they had worked in these popular snail powder shops for a long time, so why not raise some funds to open their own shops and be their own bosses? However, it is a pity that although I have been working as a migrant worker for a long time, I should have learned how to make snail powder or stole some recipes, but the first generation of operators who have mastered the so-called popular snail powder recipe technology after commercial baptism or for other purposes but have retired may not impart its core content to them.
This part of the migrant workers who have only mastered the fur or the skill is not enough to master the essence of production, but may reduce the quality of snail powder. In addition, those farmers who started out as their own bosses may have joined the snail powder industry because they were "self-taught" and only scratched the surface, and their quality may not be flattering.
C. At the end of 1997, the Asian financial crisis swept across Asia. It was this year that the reform of state-owned enterprises intensified, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission was established, and Liuzhou became a pilot city for "optimizing capital structure".
Since 1998, Liuzhou, an old industrial base, has stepped into a three-year stream of state-owned enterprise reform, followed by more than one million laid-off workers before and after, and nearly 411,111 permanent residents in the urban area have been implicated in great pain. The development of Liuzhou in all aspects seems to have come to a standstill in an instant. The catering industry is inevitably hit hard, and the rice flour industry is also deeply affected. Innovation and development seem to be stagnant. At the same time, a large number of laid-off workers choose to join the snail powder sales industry in the process of re-employment to support their families and make a living.
The same result may be that most of these new sales of snail powder have not got the essence of previous production, which has become one of the important reasons for the sharp decline in the overall level of snail powder production during this period, indirectly or directly. (Note: We have no objection to this. The history of snail powder
Legend of the birthplace 1: Wang Ji has a grandmother
In the mid-1981s, there was a grocery store (now the "Dake Hotel" building) on Jiefang South Road. The clerk had to study every morning, but it was past nine o'clock after finishing the study. The clerk who had no time to eat breakfast had to take a handful of dried noodles and cook them at the grandmother snail stall next door (now the goldfish lane on Jiefang South Road). Wang Ji's grandmother, who sells snails, also thinks that this powder tastes very good, so she simply sells this snail powder. After that, it was improved several times by the industry, and other ingredients were added. Then, the classic snack of Liuzhou, snail powder, slowly formed, and the streets were full of fragrance, and the people were crazy about it.
Legend of the birthplace II: There is a night market in Gubu
In the late 1971s, after the Cultural Revolution ended, folk trade began to recover, and the Gubu Street vegetable market (near Milk Lane) gradually became the largest distribution center for the wholesale of endophytic snails in Liuzhou. In addition, the career of the nearby workers' cinema was in full swing, and a large number of visitors left the scene, which led to the formation of the Gubu Street night market. Liuzhou people are addicted to eating snails and rice noodles, which is a tradition. Some shrewd night market owners began to operate boiled snails and rice noodles at the same time. At that time, people did not have such rich and delicious dishes to choose from today, so there was not much oil and water in their stomachs. Therefore, after the movie was over, those hungry diners could not help but intentionally or unintentionally ask to add a few spoonfuls of snail soup to their own rice noodles and enjoy them together, which gradually formed the embryonic form of snail powder. After that, its ingredients and production technology were continuously improved and perfected, and gradually formed, which was out of control. In the mid-1981s, it developed into its first prosperous period, and the status of snail powder as an original signature snack in Liuzhou was also established and consolidated.
Legend of the birthplace 3: Coincidence is a book
One night in the early 1981s, several foreigners rushed to Liuzhou, hungry and found a rice noodle stall that was about to close, but the bone soup that was necessary for rice noodles was gone, leaving only snail soup left over from a pot of boiled snails. In desperation, the stall owner put rice noodles in the snail soup and added vegetables and peanuts. After these foreigners ate it, they ate it. The stall owner kept this in mind, gradually improved its ingredients and production, and gradually formed the embryonic form of snail powder.
Snail powder first appeared in the late 1971s, but not later than the early 1981s. Due to the serious lack of relevant information, it is difficult to verify the exact origin. However, Liuzhou people with a strong "snail complex" and "rice noodle complex" inadvertently created a famous original snack in Liuzhou-snail powder. There may be an inevitable side to the ingenious arrangement of history. The history of snail powder when did snail powder appear
Legend of the birthplace 1: Wang Ji has a grandmother. In the mid-1981s, there was a grocery store (now the "Dake Hotel" building) on Jiefang South Road. The clerk had to study every morning, but it was past nine o'clock after finishing the study. The clerk who had no time to have breakfast had to take a handful of dried snail powder and go to the grandmother snail stall next door (now the goldfish lane on Jiefang South Road).
Wang Ji's grandmother, who sells snails, also thinks this powder tastes good, so she simply sells this snail powder. After that, it was improved several times by the industry, and other ingredients were added. Then, the classic snack of Liuzhou-snail powder was slowly formed, and the streets were full of fragrance, and the people were crazy about it.
Legend of the birthplace II: Gubu has a night market. In the late 1971s, after the Cultural Revolution ended, folk commerce began to recover, and Gubu Street vegetable market (near Milk Lane) gradually became the largest distribution center for the wholesale of endophytic snails in Liuzhou. In addition, the career of the nearby workers' cinema was in full swing, and a large number of audience left the scene, which led to the formation of Gubu Street night market. Liuzhou people are addicted to eating snails and rice noodles, which is a tradition. Some shrewd night market owners began to operate boiled snails and rice noodles at the same time.
At that time, people didn't have such rich and delicious dishes to choose from, so there was not much oil and water in their stomachs. Therefore, after the movie was over, those hungry diners could not help but intentionally or unintentionally ask to add a few spoonfuls of snail soup to their own rice noodles and enjoy them together, which gradually formed the embryonic form of snail powder.
After that, its ingredients and production technology were continuously improved and perfected, and gradually formed, which was out of control. In the mid-1981s, snail powder developed into its first prosperous period, and its position as an original signature snack in Liuzhou was also established and consolidated. Legend of the birthplace 3: Coincidence is a book. One night in the early 1981s, several foreigners rushed to Liuzhou, hungry and found a rice noodle stall that was about to close. However, the bone soup that rice noodles must use was gone, leaving only a pot of snail soup left. In a hurry, the stall owner put rice noodles in snail soup and added vegetables and peanuts. After eating it, these foreigners shouted delicious.
The stall owner kept this in mind, gradually improved its ingredients and production, and gradually formed the embryonic form of snail powder. Snail powder first appeared in the late 1971s, but not later than the early 1981s. Due to the serious lack of relevant information, it is difficult to verify the exact origin. However, Liuzhou people with strong "snail complex" and "rice noodle complex" inadvertently created a famous original snack in Liuzhou-snail powder.
there may be an inevitable side to the ingenious arrangement of history. The origin of snail powder
How to make Liuzhou snail powder
First of all, rice flour should be prepared, which is not the kind of river flour in the northern market. Dry-cut powder is needed. There are two kinds of round rice flour unique to Liuzhou, one is cut powder, and the other is freshly squeezed round "line powder", which is characterized by its side dish snail meat. Different from rice noodles (rice noodles), the cross-sectional diameter of dry cut powder is about 3 mm, and it can be used after soaking in water for more than one hour (usually, dry cut powder is soaked in clear water and softened before cooking).
The snail powder is made of aged rice, which is "the older the better". The rice left for a long time has lost its oiliness and colloid, but it tastes very elastic after being processed into rice flour. Contrary to Guilin rice noodles when cooking, Guilin rice noodles should be soaked in hot water before cooking, while snail powder is soaked in cold water, otherwise, the powder will break and have no elasticity after cooking, so it is very important to master this point. Some diners will complain when eating snail powder: "Why is there no snail meat?" In fact, authentic snail powder does not contain snail meat.
snail powder is called snail powder because its soup is made of snails. Foreigners are not used to the spicy and fishy taste of snail powder soup, which is precisely the biggest feature of snail powder. The boss said that in Liuzhou, no one will eat a bowl of snail powder with tasteless soup.
Secondly, prepare soup, that is, snail soup. There is no snail in real snail powder, and the taste of rice flour is based on snail soup. Use snail meat or small snail meat in rivers, and the taste is similar. First, soak the snails bought alive in clear water for 2 days, and put a piece of iron into the water of the snails to promote the snails to spit mud, and at the same time, it can inhibit the schistosomiasis parasitic in the snails that northerners are afraid of, so that the snail meat is sweet. Suck the snail clean, take it out, and cut off the tail of the snail with iron inlay. Generally, it is easy to accumulate silt there, and it is also convenient for the snail to eat when it is cooked.
Drain the snail water, boil hot oil, pat garlic, ginger, garlic, dried red pepper and perilla, stir-fry until they taste (add as many ingredients as possible), add salt, chicken essence, oyster sauce and cooking wine, and simmer with water for more than 2 hours. The key to soup is the ingredients added when adding water. Each family has its own secret recipe. A good soup formula needs money. After the soup is ready, it will be slowly stewed on the stove.
The characteristics of soup are that the oil should be enough, the pepper should be hot enough, and red pepper oil should be seen on the soup. The delicious taste of snail powder is due to its unique soup base, which is made of 13 kinds of natural spices such as snail meat, rhizoma anemarrhenae, star anise, clove, etc., and the amount of the 13 kinds of spices is strictly proportional. With so many fine soups, can it be fresh?
a good bowl of snail powder and good ingredients are also indispensable. Sour bamboo shoots should not be too sour, dried radish should not be too sweet, and yuba and peanuts should be fried just right. Let's talk about side dishes, 1. Fried beancurd 2. Sour beans 3. Fried fungus and famous sour bamboo shoots 4. Fried peanuts 5. Diced radish 4. Pickled sauerkraut, which is called cabbage in the north. After these things are ready, you can start making snail powder.
first, boil water in a pot, and add vegetables, green ones, water spinach, lettuce and rape blossoms (the Yangtze River takes the place of.