From the time I can remember, my family has never stopped having a dish, soy beans, also known as stinky beans, which is almost a necessity on the farmhouse table. This dish because of its main material for the corruption of soybeans, its stink race over stinky tofu, in all the dishes in southwest Lu, can be called the first stink.

This dish is stinky, but very popular, there are several reasons for it: First, it smells bad to eat, the same principle as stinky tofu, soybean fermentation produces a strong sauce flavor can stimulate the taste buds, adults and children like to eat; Second, the rural material life is poor, the daily turnip and cabbage to make a good meal is also tired of letting people live, the soybean can increase the nutritional, spice up the flavor of our lives; Thirdly, it can be stored for a long time, and after it is done, it is no problem to eat it for a year and a half, so it saves trouble; fourthly, it is the farmers' demand for salt. Out vigorously, sweat, need high salt food to replenish strength.

Something like soy bean seeds may be found in many places, but the practice varies. I still don't understand that some places make it surprisingly odorless, and I don't know what process is used.

The way to make soy bean paste in Southwest China is like this: boil the soybeans in water, place them in a pot to ferment until they turn into white mold, and then pick them up with chopsticks, and the beans stick together in a silky way, and then spread them out on a straw mat and dry them out, completing the preparation of the main ingredients.

Our side to do the sauce beans called under the sauce beans, with a variety of ways, the most common is the green radish, cabbage or winter melon cut into segments, slices, and fermented beans mixed with salt, peppercorns, fennel, chili pepper and so on. Salt macerate the radish, cabbage, winter melon out of the water, soak the beans, soy sauce beans are ready, set aside a few days to eat.

The most fearful thing about the beans in the sauce is that the salt can't be pinpointed, the salinity is not enough, after a while, it will be acidic, and this acid is irreversible, and afterward, you add more salt for nothing. Sour sauce beans are very difficult to eat, but do not want to throw away, only to endure to finish eating, let a person is very broken.

At that time, those of us from the countryside out of school children living in school, because there is no money to play kitchen food, almost every person to carry a jar full of soybean bottles and jars, a meal, the conditions of good food kitchen food, conditions of poor, to buy a few steamed buns, playing bowl of soup, a few "similar" holding soybean jars, bottles, and so on. The first thing you need to do is to get together and eat.

This time, the campus will be filled with the smell of stink.