Stinky tofu is very famous, its origin has a paragraph "ancient": in the eighth year of the Qing Emperor Kangxi, Anhui Xianyuan County, Wang Zhihe failed to go to the Beijing exams, and there is no allowance to return to their hometowns. Wang's original family to make tofu lake mouth, Wang Zhihe also know this craft, so stay in Beijing to grind tofu to make a living. One day, encountered tofu stagnant, a lot of stock, Wang was afraid of tofu spoiled, blood money, will be cut into small pieces of tofu, with salt spices, placed in the altar, and sealed its mouth, thought that this will be able to create curd to. Who knows that after some days altar mouth open, curd can not do, the tofu stinks. Wang Sheng tried to taste it, and it tasted delicious. So this stinky tofu test marketing, but also get customers praise stinky tofu from this spread, to the end of the Qing Dynasty, stinky tofu has been very popular, even the Empress Dowager Cixi is also addicted to eating this thing.

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On the origin of tofu, there is such a legend. There is a family of three, living in a couple with the mother, but unfortunately the mother-in-law treated the daughter-in-law is not good, even ordinary soybean milk are not willing to let her drink, one day the mother-in-law to go out of town for two or three days, when the mother-in-law front foot, the daughter-in-law after the foot began to grind the beans, cooking soybean milk, but when the soybean milk is opening the pot, she is full of joy to ladle loaded, the yard actually came to the sound of footsteps. The daughter-in-law was afraid that her mother-in-law had returned and would be scolded, so she hurriedly picked up the whole pot of freshly boiled soymilk and poured it into the altar by the stove. Outside the door to see the original is the husband came back, and so the joy of pulling the husband to go into the house to drink soybean milk, which know open the lid of the altar to see, the soybean milk actually solidified into a block. It turned out that the altar previously soaked sauerkraut, there are still some sour soup base, so the soybean milk poured into the solidification, the couple barely tasted actually found that this solidified soybean milk flavor is good, the quality of the tender flavor, and so he named him "teasing husband". In this way, "eat tofu" another layer of meaning is not difficult to understand ----- was originally "tease husband" Well, just "husband" can tease, but strangers can not tease, strange women! The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a pair of shoes or boots that you can use to make the most of your time.

According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica - Grain Department - Tofu" records "the method of tofu, began in the Han dynasty, King of Huainan, Liu Ann. It also says that tofu is "sweet, salty, cold and slightly poisonous". However, as far as I can see, "Compendium of Materia Medica" is a pharmacopoeia with a lot of whimsy, can not be used to prove the origin of tofu, but at least explain ---- the history of tofu, is really too long.

From my small town, drive three hours, you can reach our "town of tofu" Shipai ancient town, 90% of the town's homes do tofu, and 10% of the homes sell tofu. Approaching the town, there is a strong fragrance unique to soybean flower, which makes people's mouths and tongues tingle. The women here are also beautiful, bright in their skin, glossy, soft and cold, with the texture of tofu, looking at their faces, calling for people to want to eat a few more pieces of tofu. I once visited a smaller tofu workshop, and saw them grinding soybean milk from a stone mill, and then, put it in a big pot to boil, and then point the pulp to make it coagulate. It was truly "a round of mill flowing agar liquid, a hundred boiling soup rolling snowflakes. Tile percussion soaked toad has shadow, the golden knife dissected jade flawless." That day, I ate two big bowls of freshly made tofu old, that strong fragrance simple, let people still recall.

Tofu is healthy food. Eat more can lower blood pressure, anti-aging; tofu and beauty food, it is said that tofu contains natural phytoestrogens, women eat more can be breasts and buttocks. This is really tempting, just for this effect, all women's table, should have tofu. And tofu eat a lot of ways, both individually into the dish, and can be used as the main ingredient, auxiliary ingredients, or as a seasoning; it is suitable for a variety of cooking methods, can be steamed or stewed can be fried can be smoked can be mixed; it can be made into a variety of dishes, a variety of shapes, can be cold dishes, hot dishes, soups, hot pots and pots, can be made into rolls, folder, pills, packages and so on can be adjusted to make a variety of flavors, both the dry fragrant flavor of the flavor, the more unique taste-absorbing properties, and can be made into a variety of flavors, both dry flavor of the flavor, and more unique taste absorption characteristics. "Tofu taste, far better than bird's nest", as long as you like, eat tofu can be eaten a thousand kinds of patterns, eat out of ten thousand kinds of flavor.