Let's not talk about what it is, let's talk about the background of this product first.

It is said that this cargo followed the Manchu fighters all the way south more than 300 years ago, and it spread from the palace to the people after the Qing Dynasty set the tripod in the Central Plains. According to "Qing's banknotes", "When there is a big sacrifice or celebration in your family in Manchuria, there will be a meat-eating meeting. No matter the flag man, whether he knows or not, he can go. The more you eat, the happier your host will be. The meat is boiled in white without soy sauce, which is very tender and beautiful. "

Even Yuan Mei, the first eater in the Qing Dynasty, once praised it highly: "This is a dish that northerners are good at, but southerners can't do well in the end."

Have you guessed what it is? Here it is-White cook the meat. In the past, people said that eating meat did not refer to shredded pork and sliced meat in cooking, nor did they refer to eating roast duck or instant-boiled mutton, but specifically to eating white cook the meat.

White cook the meat, also known as white meat, white-cut meat and boiled pork, has different names, but all refer to boiled pork. You may ask, cook the meat, what can't be cooked here? Who wouldn't? But whoever cooked it, it was different. What people all over the country can cook tastes different; All the old Beijing-style restaurants also have boiled meat, and its taste is not the same.

Old Beijingers eat white meat at home and cook pork in a big pot. When I was in cook the meat, I first tied a large piece of meat with a rope, tied it tightly, cooked it, naturally cooled it, loosened it, sliced it, and it solidified and did not come loose. If you want to cut it when it is hot, please wait to change the meat.

Cook the meat pays attention to the temperature, so he can't pass it. In the local dialect, it is called "No Soul". The temperature depends on experience, and the skill of knife depends on kung fu. Cut the white meat horizontally, but it's not right to follow the silk, and it will undoubtedly spread.

White meat is not salty, so dip it in soy sauce and add more minced garlic. Sichuan cuisine has further upgraded the white meat, creating garlic paste white meat and Sichuan style pork, which are popular in the north and south of the country. The former can be mixed with the latter. Northeast cuisine is not to be outdone, and a white meat with sauerkraut is awesome, which is greasy and appetizing.

White meat also gave birth to a profession, a profession dedicated to making white cook the meat-based banquets. Generally, the lower-middle indigenous families in Beijing are frugal and conservative, and they have festive events at home. They are not used to going to restaurants and restaurants to hold banquets, and they all look for privately contracted food help. This industry is called "mouth-to-mouth cook". In this industry, there is a restaurant specializing in white cook the meat banquet, and its stir-frying is limited to meat and pig offal, and it is mainly burning and burning. Burning refers to frying and braising; Liao refers to baking and baking; Then there's white cook the meat, so it's called "burning, burning and boiling". This kind of banquet, regardless of whether it is cold or hot, is called burning dishes. All the dishes used are five-inch saucers, and the price of the whole table is based on the number of saucers burned. The best way to burn, burn and cook is to burn 48 dishes, usually eight, sixteen or twenty-four. This kind of chef has a high cooking skill and can turn over many tricks, that is, in addition to salty food, cold dishes can also be made into sweets. Among them, the colored sweet cold dishes made of diced fat covered with batter and fried with brown sugar are the most popular. "Mouth chef" was popular in Beijing as a unique industry.

Incidentally, the best time to eat white meat is not now. Old Beijingers usually choose to eat white meat in the dog days. Don't look at the bitter summer people who can't eat anything else. This white meat can still be filled with three or two pieces. Friends who are in a hurry should wait patiently for a while.

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