The historical process of sesame oil (also known as sesame oil)

It is impossible to test who invented sesame oil, except that it existed in the Three Kingdoms period more than 1,811 years ago; In the Jin Dynasty, diet was widely used in China.

sesame oil is called "sesame oil" because it is taken from sesame seeds. Because sesame oil produced by roasting sesame seeds often has a strong aromatic smell, it is called "sesame oil" in northern China; In southern China, people call it "sesame oil". In ancient China, sesame was also called "flax" and "fat sesame", so people called sesame oil "flax oil" and "fat sesame oil". In Japan and South Korea, people also called it "flax oil". In order to show their deep love for sesame and sesame oil, people call sesame the "queen of oil crops" and sesame oil the "king of vegetable oils".

In the Three Kingdoms period, the working people in our country mastered the technology of making oil from sesame seeds. According to Chen Shou's "The History of the Three Kingdoms. Wei Zhi", "Sun Quan went to Hefei New Town, and the cage was full of fire, and the pine was broken into torches, filled with sesame oil, and thieves attacked the county from the upper hand." At that time, sesame oil was made from sesame seeds by stone mortar or wood pressing.

sesame oil will arrive at people's table later. The text in Beitang Shuchao quoted the Natural History of the Jin Dynasty as saying: "There is a method of douchi in foreign countries, in which beans are soaked in bitter wine, and the violence is extremely dry, and it is steamed with sesame oil, and it stops after three times of repeated violence." This is the earliest record of sesame oil used in diet, which has been more than 1,611 years.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, sesame oil was widely used in catering, and in the Tang and Song Dynasties, sesame oil was more widely used as the best edible vegetable oil.

sesame oil is also widely used in medicine, including in Compendium of Materia Medica, and many medical prescriptions have been used up to now. Shi Zhen said: the black sesame oil is the most important medicine, followed by white sesame oil.

with the gradual improvement of production technology, the gradual improvement of people's living standard and the gradual development of people's nutritional value of sesame oil, the production technology and products of sesame oil are increasingly rich, such as industrial sesame oil, medicinal sesame oil, light-colored sesame oil, black sesame oil and health care sesame oil. Ordinary edible sesame oil is also different, such as baking and frying sesame oil with slightly less heat. Bake and stir-fry with a little heat, which is generally used for cold salad, soup or stuffing. Sesame oil production has also gone through the process of original human extrusion, water substitution and power machine extrusion.

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Sesame oil can be divided into two categories according to its fragrance characteristics:

One is sesame oil, which has a strong or remarkable sesame oil fragrance. The special ingredients in sesame seeds are processed by high-temperature frying technology to generate substances with special fragrance, which makes sesame oil have a unique fragrance and is different from other edible vegetable oils, so it is called sesame oil. According to the processing technology, sesame oil can be divided into two types: small ground sesame oil and machine-made sesame oil.

ground sesame oil is made by water substitution method, with stronger and purer fragrance. Small ground sesame oil processed by water substitution method has a history of more than 411 years in China. Besides domestic sales, the products are also exported to Hong Kong and Macao and exported to Southeast Asian countries. Except for a few areas such as * * * and Qinghai, other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have production. The traditional production process is: selecting materials, cleaning, frying seeds, grinding, stirring, vibrating, precipitating, skimming and packaging.

When it comes to small sesame oil, there is an origin:

According to the "Wei County Records", "Cui Shi clan moved from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province to Cuijiazhuang, Shandong Province in the early Ming Dynasty." At that time, Cui Shi three brothers moved here and named the village "Cuijiazhuang" after their own surnames. They mainly live by planting sorghum, millet, sesame, beans, vegetables, kiln burning and fishing. Cui Shi boss has the skill of planting vegetables and melons, and his descendants moved to Shouguang rice field to plant vegetables. Cui Shi knew how to fish. Later, his descendants fished along the banks of the Da Yu River to the North Sea and settled in the area of Hanting Yangzi in Wei County. Only Cui Shi, the second child, is the most intelligent and ingenious. He can not only plant land, but also burn kilns. He can also make stone mortar, stone mill and other tools used to grind rice, flour and grinding bean curd. People all praise him as a skillful craftsman. At that time, sorghum, millet, sesame and beans planted by Cui Shi's second child were all used as food. After sesame seeds are harvested, stir-fry sesame seeds in a pot, mash them into powder with a stone mortar or grind them into paste with a small stone mill and eat them directly.

One day, when he was having lunch, he diluted the sesame paste in the bowl with boiling water and prepared to add it to the dish. Because the water was a little too much, when he was stirring with chopsticks, he occasionally found a lot of oil beads floating in the bowl. He picked up the bowl and shook it, and the oil beads gathered together, and with the hot air, a special fragrance floated out. He dipped some oil beads in his chopsticks and tasted it, which was particularly fragrant. This fragrance was other oil.

So, like discovering a new continent, he began to think with his head and his heart: If more sesame paste was added to boiling water to make more oil, wouldn't the food taste better? He began to do the experiment: stir-fry sesame seeds planted and harvested by himself in a pot, grind the fried sesame seeds into paste with a small stone mill made by himself, put the sesame paste into a big clay pot made by himself, pour a proper amount of boiling water into the pot, and stir it constantly with a wooden pole. As expected, a thick layer of oil floated out of the pot, emitting a fragrant smell. He put the wooden poles on the dining table, put the bottom of the clay basin on the wooden poles, and shook the clay basin with his hands. The more oil came out, the thicker the oil layer became ... He skimmed the oil with a wooden spoon, put it in a clay pot, picked it up and sold it in the market, and gave it to people to taste. People were surprised to ask him, "What kind of oil is this? Why is it so fragrant? We have never seen or eaten such fragrant oil!" Cui Shi, the second child, said with joy and a little pride, "This is sesame oil that I just successfully tested and ground with sesame seeds. It tastes delicious when added to meals!" After hearing what he said, people rushed to snap up his sesame oil. Because Cui Shi's second child is a skillful craftsman who is good at thinking and diligent in hands-on, no matter what happens, he is always good at pondering and studying. He found another key problem in the grinding of sesame oil: that is, the aroma of sesame oil has a great relationship with the roasting temperature of sesame. The baking and frying of sesame seeds is less heated, and the oil produced is slightly lighter in flavor and color; When sesame seeds are baked and fried, the oil is burnt and dark. Sesame is baked and fried at a moderate temperature, and the oil produced is not only fragrant, but also beautiful in color. Since then, Cui Shi's second child has been constantly researching, pondering and improving the grinding technology in the grinding process of sesame oil, and the ground sesame oil has become more and more fragrant and loved by people.

In this way, the news that he discovered that the ground sesame oil had a strong and special fragrance spread quickly, and it spread from one word to ten, and then to the palace. When the Emperor learned of this, he ordered an imperial envoy to send the sesame oil of Cui Shi's second child to the palace. When he tasted it, he praised it assiduously and repeatedly said, "Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! It's rare that Cuijiazhuang, a village in Weixian County, grinds such fragrant oil! Rare! Very rare! Just call this oil "sesame oil". " Since then, the sesame oil ground by Cui Shi's second child has been listed as a court tribute, which was specially given to the emperor for enjoyment. People renamed this sesame oil as the good name given by the emperor-"sesame oil", and because this sesame oil was ground with a small stone mill, people called it "small ground sesame oil", which is the origin of "small ground sesame oil".

Later, people nicknamed Cui Shi's second child "Cui Xiangyou", and he was the inventor of "Xiaomoyou"-the ancestor of Xiaomoyou! Over the years, people gradually forgot his real name, only knowing that his name was "Cui Xiangyou". The "small sesame oil grinding" process invented by him has been passed down from generation to generation and passed on to his descendants.

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