Although I haven't done the method of tofu, I saw that tofu was done when I jumped the queue. If I have to try now, I dare to do it.

First, wash the tofu bag. It depends on whether to make dried tofu or big tofu. To make dried tofu, it is a long roving white cloth, about half a meter wide and tens of meters long. Tofu bags that make big tofu are big squares and coarse gauze, and the side length is about two meters. Wash the tofu bag and dry it for later use.

Soak the soybeans for about one night, grind them into soybean milk and boil them in a big pot until they boil and cease fire. At this time, it is necessary to package and separate the bean curd residue from the soybean milk. Hanging a cross in the shed and hanging a square tofu bag on the four corners of the cross form a big net bag.

Pour the boiled soybean milk into the bean curd bag one by one, and another person shakes the bean curd bag one by one, so that the pure soybean milk leaks from the bean curd bag and flows into the vat below. To a certain extent, it is necessary to clamp the remaining tofu residue in the tofu bag with a splint and squeeze out the remaining soybean milk. Until all the soybean milk is wrapped, the bean curd residue is completely separated from the soybean milk.

Put the soybean milk in a vat and let it cool a little, and then start to order brine. Tofu jar will be filled with brine in a small bowl, pour a little inside, and stir it with a spoon, always paying attention to the changes of soybean milk. Add a little more brine and stir it until you are satisfied. This is the most critical skill in making tofu, and not everyone can learn it. Every tofu pudding has its own know-how, and it is not passed on from person to person, because more people will know this skill, and their jobs will be unstable.

At this time, put the lid on the jar, wait for a while, and see that the soybean milk has become a brain, and there are bean curd flowers in it. When it is accompanied by clear water, that is, when the soybean milk is separated into bean curd flowers and clear water, the bean curd can be pressed.

First, put the wooden frame with big tofu in it, put it in the wooden frame with that big tofu bag, that is, an extremely wide square tofu bag, and start to scoop the tofu flower into the wooden frame one by one, and the water spouts out from the bottom, and the tofu flower is deposited in the wooden frame. When the tofu flower in the wooden frame is full, turn over the four corners of the tofu bag, wrap the tofu flower, press it with wooden boards, and press it with stones. When the tofu is not old and tender, uncover the board and tofu bag, and the tofu is made. Cut it into pieces with a knife, and it is delicious tofu.

Second, make dried tofu

Besides, make dried tofu.

The above procedure is the same, which is why we first talk about making tofu.

After the tofu flower is separated from the clear water, it can be made into dried tofu. The width of the wooden frame of dried tofu should be the same as that of the dried tofu bag, about one meter long and about half a meter high. First, put the rolled dried tofu bag in a wooden frame, and use a tofu ladle to stir the tofu flower, which is very uniform. Scoop up some tofu flowers with the ladle and pour them gently and evenly on the tofu bag. It must be even, thin and not too thin. After that, add another layer to the tofu bag, just to cover the tofu flower just spilled, and get ready for the next layer of tofu flower. Repeat the procedure just now, pour the second layer of tofu flower and cover it with tofu bag. And so on, repeat until the wooden frame of dried tofu is full.

At this time, it is about to start pressing. Cover it with a thick wooden board first, and press some big stones. Then, use a thick wooden beam to press it horizontally on the board, one end is fixed, and the other end is stirred on the beam below the other side with a rope, and a small wooden stick is stirred in the middle of the rope, constantly stirring, so that the wooden beam above is continuously pressed down. There is clear water lying under the wooden frame, and the tofu flower bears heavy pressure in the tofu bag and gradually becomes dried tofu. Press it for a few hours, open the tofu bag, and there is a Zhang Qian tofu in the first floor. Take it one by one, fold it, and you can go out and sell it.