? Eight bowls? trace to the source
? Don't laugh at the peasant's wine and wine, and keep customers in good years. . More than 900 years ago, what Lu You described in "A Tour of Shanxi Village" is a portrayal of the peasant family's Spring Festival diet in the Southern Song Dynasty. It can be seen that the New Year's Eve is played by meat and poultry such as pigs and chickens, and it has a long history.
Grilled pork strips, braised chicken pieces, oily meat, elbow paste, grilled mutton, braised fish, braised meatballs, and eight-treasure rice? These folk dishes once had a resounding name: Eight Bowls.
When it comes to eight bowls, most of the children in the post-1980s and post-1990s cities don't know. For middle-aged and even elderly Datong people, the eight bowls have gradually become mottled memories in their minds.
In the old days, restaurants did not use round tables like now, but paid attention to the use of the Eight Immortals table, where eight people sat on each table and served eight cold, eight meat and sixteen dishes.
The so-called eight bowls refer to a banquet with strong folk flavor, which consists of grilled meat strips, braised meatballs, braised chicken pieces, stewed elbows, sauce bones, oily meat, braised fish, eight-treasure rice, etc. In short, it is composed of eight dishes and is filled in eight sea bowls, so it is called? Eight bowls? .
There are many theories about the origin of the Eight Bowls, some of which were compiled by Zhao Yun, a famous star of the Three Kingdoms, and some of which were invented by Su Dongpo, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, but none of them are supported by historical materials and classics. There are many versions of the Eight Bowls all over the country, among which Zhengding Eight Bowls, Muslim Eight Bowls, Beijing Eight Bowls, Lanzhou Eight Bowls and so on are famous.
The eight bowls of Lao Datong, traced back to the source, first prevailed in the middle of Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the government was honest and harmonious, all trades flourished, and the food market was unprecedentedly prosperous, among which? Man-Han banquet?
Dominate the catering industry. Manchu-Han banquet is divided into upper eight treasures, middle eight treasures and lower eight treasures. Eight bowls are listed as "Eight Treasures" because of their simple ingredients. Next eight treasures? People call it? Eight bowls? .
In the old days, the practice of eight bowls was divided into thick and thin. Take the eight bowls in Beijing as an example: the thin eight bowls refer to fried fish fillets, stewed shrimps, family photos, osmanthus fish bones, stewed slippery fish, shredded Sichuan pork, Sichuan meatballs, and pine meat; The eight big bowls are: fried shrimps, stewed shredded chicken, stewed egg soup and crab roe, sea cucumber balls, silver ingot meat, clear soup chicken, braised chicken, home-cooked roasted carp and so on.
At that time, the eight bowls concentrated all the cooking techniques such as steak, stew, sauce, roast, stew, stir-fry, steaming and stir-frying. In the Qing Dynasty, there were frequent business exchanges between Datong and Beijing, and the eight bowls in Beijing gradually spread in Datong square, becoming the main form of banquet for people at weddings. However, the eight bowls of Datong do not copy the eight bowls of recipes in Beijing. At that time, Datong had more business contacts with other countries (now Inner Mongolia) and absorbed the northwest region? Eight bowls of Muslim? Some dishes, such as grilled mutton and beef, combined with local specialties, form a unique flavor? Datong eight bowls? .
Eight bowls of New Year's Eve complex
Although the eight bowls are getting farther and farther away from our modern life, they are becoming more and more blurred. However, during the Spring Festival, it is always difficult for Datong people to give up their love for the eight bowls.
In the lunar new year, my parents at home always set up a cooker and cook some grilled meat strips, braised chicken pieces and fried meatballs. Young people who are not good at cooking have to stroll to the supermarket to buy some semi-finished products with eight big pieces more or less. Because leaving these dishes, for Datong people, it is difficult to find the unique flavor of the ancient city beyond the Great Wall that lasted for a hundred years.
? Eight bowls? menu
Boss has eight bowls. What are the eight dishes? It has been debated in the catering industry for a long time, and there are multiple versions.
According to reports, Datong? Eight bowls? Yes, the recipes are changing according to different ages. However, the cooking techniques are basically boiling, frying, grilling and steaming, according to strict procedures and working procedures. Its skills mainly focus on the selection of materials, the mastery of knife skills and temperature, and the selection of ingredients. For example, it takes more than two or three hours to chop the meat strips and steam them in the steamer later. The dishes made from this are well-made, well-selected, economical, fat but not greasy, suitable for all ages, and have good color, fragrance, taste and shape, taking into account the characteristics of northern cuisine, with rich nutrition and exquisite eating methods.
? Eight bowls? In the old man's life, it is indispensable food. It is indispensable for birthdays, weddings, funerals, and children's full moons. Because of Datong in the old days, unlike there are so many hotels and restaurants now, and most of the ordinary people are poor, they set up greenhouses at home and in the village to entertain relatives and friends when they meet weddings and funerals. Today, this method still exists in rural areas of some counties and districts in our city. Following to the 1980s, the recipes of eight bowls in Datong basically include eight categories, such as grilled meat strips, braised chicken pieces, braised meatballs, oily meat, braised elbows, braised mutton, braised fish and eight-treasure rice.
After the 1990s, with eight cuisines, namely Cantonese cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Huaiyang cuisine, in Datong, a northern gourmet kingdom, the traditional eight bowls gradually disappeared into the vast array of cuisines. More importantly, with the prevalence of modern healthy eating concept, more and more people no longer covet the meaty and greasy? Eight bowls? .