The origin of Wuxi oil gluten
Wuxi oil gluten was produced in the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty (the middle of the 18th century), and has been in use for more than two hundred and thirty years. In the beginning, it was made by sieving the bran and adding salt water to make raw bran (also known as gluten), then kneading the raw bran into cubes and frying them in a boiling oil pot to make the oil gluten into a spherical and hollow shape. The name "qingshui oil gluten" appeared at the end of the Qing Dynasty (the middle of the 19th century), and the first store that put up the signboard of "qingshui oil gluten" was Ma Chengmao's gluten store in Baidu Lane.
Wuxi oil gluten is golden in color, smooth on the surface, crispy in taste and delicious in taste, high in vitamins and proteins, and has a unique flavor when stuffed with meat and boiled.
Wuxi oil gluten is very famous, the restaurant with its ingredients can turn a variety of dishes, often used for home with rice, cooking, cooking soup are appropriate. Wuxi folk there is a custom, to the holiday family reunion, a bowl of meat on the dinner table into a bowl of oil gluten, in order to show that the reunion, increase the happy atmosphere. Oil gluten has long been a famous local specialty of Wuxi.
Talking about the origin of the oil gluten, the earliest or a nunnery in a teacher's wife fried out. In the past, when we went to Huishan, we had to pass through Wuli Street. There is a Dade Bridge at the top of Wuli Street, and there is a nunnery by the bridge. This nunnery is close to Huishan, quiet, four festivals Bodhisattva's birthday, the Wuxi City Hall old lady to come here to read the Buddha sitting night quite a lot, sometimes read the seven Buddha, in the nunnery a stay is six or seven days. There is a rice cooker in the nunnery, burned out and vegetarian dishes have some fame. As the saying goes, "tofu, no kind", she burned out of the dish is not ordinary, will turn the hall of fame, flavor and good. Mrs. Shi burn vegetarian fasting, troubled commonly used raw bran as the main ingredient, braised, fried silk, boiled soup, really ate Nianfo old lady satisfied. Whenever the rich people's wives, Miss, Mrs. Shi with raw bran with fine goods, asparagus, mushrooms, all dishes led to the vegetarian feast of praise. Often come to the nunnery chanting Buddha people constantly, known to eat a vegetarian meal of many residents, it is no wonder that the cooking teacher always put the raw bran to prepare a small tank full of.
On one occasion, the original agreement to come to the nunnery chanting dozens of old ladies from the countryside, do not know what things did not come that day. The raw bran needed for several tables of vegetarianism had already been prepared in the morning by the rice cooker, so she was worried about it. The raw bran is overnight rancid, once overnight will not be able to eat. Burning rice master Mrs. first put some salt in the raw bran jar, but still do not worry about it, for fear that the jar out of disease. She thought about it, try to open a frying pan, the raw bran fried, so as not to be rancid, tomorrow morning can still be used to burn vegetarian food. Oil in the frying pan more oil, when the oil rolled, the teacher is afraid of raw bran fried impermeable, specially fried into a small piece, hand grabbed a handful of thrown into the frying pan, spatula knife turned over a few times. Hey, really rare! Just see a piece of raw bran in the pot to expand into a bright golden hollow ball, in the rolling oil jumped down, the teacher with a strainer fished up finger poke crunchy, nose smell fragrant, mouth taste quite fresh. She was happy ah, rushed to find the masters and wives to see, all mouth praise good, but also to this fried raw bran hollow round son named "oil gluten". Burning rice master Mrs. heart has a reckoning, from then on, the nunnery vegetarian food added fried gluten, stuffed gluten, gluten, gluten bamboo shoots, gluten soup, Road vegetarian dishes, Road delicacies, the day only afraid of vegetarian tables open less, do not worry about eating guests are not many. The wind spread out, all over the nunnery, the temple also learn from the same way, vegetarian food to add oil gluten color.
Not long after, Wuxi city opened a store of oil gluten. Stained gluten into thousands of households, meat stuffed gluten, gluten fried meat, vegetables burned gluten into the daily meal. As for those restaurants, restaurants, chefs are more than eight, each show their skills, burned a lot of Wuxi's traditional dishes.