#Winter Life Check-in Season#Maybe I am ignorant, right? As I mentioned in my previous article, only people in Jiaodong make jujube dumplings. I also found that only people in Jiaodong make "frozen" food in winter. Do people in Northeast China make it? Don’t know? Can any friend from the Northeast tell me?

What is "frozen"? I searched online for a long time and only found this one, which is basically like this.

Some friends may say, isn’t this just meat jelly? There are indeed similarities, but they are not exactly the same.

Let me talk about how my family beats the cold every winter.

First of all, this food is called "frozen", and making this food is called freezing.

Frozen is a food that people in my hometown of Yantai, including Jiaodong, will make in winter, especially before the Spring Festival. In those days when economic conditions were not good, you had to find a way to make it during the Spring Festival. Pot jelly is used to entertain guests. It can be said that this is a must-have food for Jiaodong people to entertain guests during the Spring Festival.

Frozen is actually a solid after the soup has solidified, so it will melt when placed under high temperature. If the weather is not cold enough, it will go bad if it is not placed in the refrigerator. In that era without refrigerators, frozen food was only Only do it in cold weather, otherwise it won't be preserved.

How to make frozen food? I think friends from all over the world will understand that to make the soup solidify, pig skins and other similar things must be used, but I remember that I have never used pig skins at home. Maybe my mother thought it was troublesome to deal with pig skins at that time. , my family has always only used: pig’s trotters, which is the main ingredient of frozen food.

Pig’s trotters must be used for freezing. My family makes two flavors of jelly, one is jelly with pig trotters as the main ingredient, and the other is jelly with chicken as the main ingredient. Although chicken is the main ingredient, pig trotters must also be added, otherwise the glue will not be enough and it will not work. solidification.

Cut the pig's trotters or chicken into pieces, not too small, otherwise they will be cooked. Moreover, the residue left after the ingredients are cooked will be very cloudy, so don’t cut it too small.

The seasonings are onions, ginger, aniseed, and peppercorns. Don’t add soy sauce, salt, and MSG at the beginning. Add them when they are almost cooked. My mother doesn’t add other spices because they taste weird. She adds them before serving. Sesame oil, green onion slices, ginger slices.

The specific method is to blanch the pig's trotters and other main ingredients first, then add water and add a seasoning bag, whole green onions, cut ginger into large pieces and cook them over high heat. The seasoning bag contains the aniseed peppercorns, put them in a cloth bag, and cook During the freezing process, you must constantly skim off the scum and be sure to skim it clean, otherwise there will be a layer of scum on the surface after freezing, which is not good-looking.

Cook for about two to three hours depending on the actual situation, and see if the entire soup is almost thick. (Note here: don’t boil all the soup, because you will eat that soup if you freeze it. Yes, it’s called freezing when the soup is solidified), then take out the green onion and ginger cubes, add salt, MSG, soy sauce, newly cut shredded ginger, green onion or green onion slices, a little sesame oil, put it into the pot and cook, here There is a saying about adding soy sauce. If you like the frozen color darker, add more soy sauce and less salt. If you like the frozen color lighter, add less soy sauce and more salt. However, be careful not to use too much soy sauce, otherwise it will turn black.

There is another technical point here, that is, do not keep stirring the soup in the pot with a shovel. You must understand the reason. How can it solidify if you keep stirring?

In the same way, when it is cooked and scooped into the basin with a large spoon, don’t stir it up. After scooping everything into the basin, be even more careful. Don’t stir it up. Just let it sit quietly. Be there.

After cooling, wrap the mouth of the basin with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator or the coldest place outdoors.

Still need to be careful not to shake the pot when moving it, but to keep it steady.

This way the freezing is done.

Just scoop some out and put it on the plate when eating.

Delicious! [呲呲]

Here I also hope that friends other than Jiaodong will also share whether there is any freezing in your place