What dish can prove that you are old?

Although I am not an old person as I was born in the 1970s, I have already entered middle age in the tide of reform, and sometimes I miss every bit of my past life. In my memory, although I could barely fill my stomach at that time, the staple food we ate was sweet potato flour (red summer flour) pancakes and yudou flour (corn flour) pancakes. I almost never cook, and only eat my own pickled Mengbu Touzi (pickled radish) and Spicy Cabbage Touzi (a bulbous vegetable similar to radish). Sometimes when there are weddings and weddings, or when a house is built at home, the most common meal is fried dough sticks boiled with leek and egg soup and wheat flour pancakes. The fried dough sticks were prepared for breakfast by neighbors and friends who helped, and the leftovers were used to make soup at noon (our family did not usually buy fried dough sticks at that time, because the economic conditions allowed it), and the eggs were from a few chickens raised by ourselves. I saved it by laying eggs (my mother also boiled two eggs for me as a birthday present for my birthday, and I really couldn’t bear to eat them!). Wheat flour pancakes are also specially made. We usually eat sweet potato noodles. .

Today I will introduce to you this delicacy that I remember from my childhood, so that I can regain the taste of my childhood!

(The amount of food cooked is for twenty people, the data is given by my mother)

Ingredients:

Fifteen eggs, one kilogram of leeks, one kilogram of fried dough sticks

Ingredients:

Three hundred grams of fat, one hundred grams of salt, one hundred grams of soy sauce, thirty kilograms of water, water Two pounds of fermented vermicelli, 100 grams of chopped green onion, and 30 grams of shredded ginger

Preparation:

1. Crack the eggs into a small basin and mix well and set aside. Pick, wash and cut the leeks into sections and set aside. Tear the dough sticks into small pieces and set aside. Cut the fat into cubes and set aside.

2. Rinse the large pot and heat it dry. Add the pork fat and fry it out. Add the green onion and ginger to the pot. Add water to boil. Add vermicelli, soy sauce and salt. Add the fried dough sticks and hold the egg liquid in one hand. Slowly pour the basin into the pot from a high position, and use a spoon in one hand to turn the soup in the pot. Add the leeks to the pot and serve.

Third, each person has a large bowl of fried dough sticks, egg and leek soup, paired with the fragrant wheat pancakes, it’s delicious!

My parents’ workplace pays wages on the 8th of every month. My family usually eats mostly vegetables, and it is rare to see large amounts of meat. On Sundays, my father would use the rationed meat tickets to queue up at the market to buy some meat, and he would buy meat with a lot of fat, because the fat meat can be boiled in oil, and the crispy oil residue can be used for stir-frying or cooking delicious dishes. Tofu soup. As for the pitiful shredded pork, my mother had to save it and put it in vegetables for several days. When it was time to eat, my parents put those precious shreds of meat into my brother's and my bowls. They said they didn't like eating meat. When I grew older, I realized that they were saving it for their children. But even so, on the 3rd and 4th of every month, our family is often out of business, and we don’t have much money to buy vegetables. The only things we have at home are dried radish and home-made bean paste.

At that time, my mother would pick a few green onions from a small open space in front of my house, wash them, chop them, put them in a bowl, and then dig them out. Take a small piece of snow-white lard, pour soy sauce on it, sprinkle with a little white pepper, rinse it with boiling water, and a large bowl of soy sauce soup that goes with rice is ready. We soaked the fragrant soy sauce soup in the rice and finished the meal in one bowl. We were very happy and did not feel that our life was hard at all, because almost all my classmates and friends around me were like this.

In order to prevent us from feeling poor and having an inferiority complex, my mother made up a beautiful story for this bowl of soy sauce soup. The story tells that a rich man went to Guangzhou on a business trip, went to a famous restaurant, looked at the menu and ordered a famous dish called Qinglong White Jade Soup. The price of this dish was not cheap, but when the dish was served, the rich man was shocked because He thought the green dragon in this dish was the Cantonese's favorite snake soup, but the waiter explained that the two green onions floating on the soy sauce soup were the green dragon, and the white jade was the lard.

The story of this expensive bowl of soy sauce soup has been deeply rooted in the hearts of my brother and me since then, because we feel that rich people spend a lot of money to go out to restaurants and eat the same as us, but we can eat delicious soy sauce soup without paying any money, which is better than that. Rich people are much smarter, so we feel happy when we drink soy sauce soup!

This scallion soy sauce soup was a standard dish that many people had to make when they had no money to buy food in that era of extreme material scarcity. It has a distinct mark of the times and remains deeply in our minds. Even now, when we think back to the past forty years ago, we still have fresh memories! Now that we are older, sometimes when we are tired of eating meat dishes, we will make a bowl of green onion and soy sauce soup to change the taste. We just replace the meat oil with sesame oil. It feels really warm!

During the three years of natural disasters from 1961 to 1963, tofu residue and green onions were stir-fried with some salt as vegetables, carrots and potatoes were used as rice, and rice porridge and dried radish were used as side dishes in the morning. It was considered good at the time, but many people couldn't even afford it. I remember it vividly. Do you think I am old?

Not to mention my childhood, I went to the countryside to work in a collective household in 1974. I was only 19 years old at the time and had no food to eat in the spring. I ate 2 green onions dipped in soybean paste and ate 3 large pancakes. I still earned 10 work points, and each work point was deducted. 8 cents, do you think I am old or not?

Food is neither beautiful nor exquisite. It depends on whether you need it or not. That is, whether you are hungry or not. If you want to use food to prove it (compare yourself with yourself). I would like to eat more soft, vegetarian and soupy food. The appetite is obviously less. That must be a classic famous dish called "Pork Stewed Vermicelli", which was once a dream dish!

Seeing that people today don’t eat this or that, their pickiness is exaggerated to the extreme, and everyone is obese, and they go around talking about how high the ratio of “three highs” is. . The little kid in our family is only 8 years old this year. What he hates most is meat dumplings. If this kind of rice is cooked, he won't eat a bite... This is something I couldn't imagine when I was a child.

From this perspective, people’s living standards have really improved a lot. If I hadn't seen your question, I wouldn't have had time to calm down and look back and think about how difficult those days were.

When I was young, I looked forward to the Chinese New Year very much, because during the Chinese New Year there were dumplings, meat, many kinds of delicious food, and new clothes to wear. As northerners, every household has radish and cabbage. One of our favorite home-cooked dishes is "pork stewed vermicelli"...

In recent years, this has also been the case. I've eaten it twice, but it's not nearly as delicious as the ones I ate when I was a kid. When I saw the whole piece of meat, I knew in my heart that I no longer had the energy to eat meat or drink.

Time is like a stubborn donkey galloping forward without looking back. I am old!

I grew up in an era of hunger, with very little food and very few vegetables. But there is never a shortage of wild vegetables to eat. As long as they are not poisonous, they will be in the basket. I have eaten bran, swallowed bitter herbs, peeled bark, peeled roots, and ground sweet potatoes into flour.

I remember one time, after eating too much Huihui vegetables, I almost died from vomiting and diarrhea. At this point, I no longer dare to eat wild vegetables to satisfy my hunger.

Now that life is better, there is enough food, and there are more varieties of vegetables, but more and more attention is paid to the combination of nutrition and vitamins. Organic and pollution-free vegetables are the most popular vegetables. Many wild vegetables in rural areas have become the favorites of urban people.

Home vegetables are not as fragrant as wild vegetables, and home flowers are not as loved as wild flowers. But someone said again: Don’t pick blue vegetables, and don’t pick wild flowers on the roadside.

I only love the food at home, and I only love the flowers I planted. Do you think I am old or not?

How to use a dish to prove that you are still young?

I thought about a dish that my son and daughter-in-law like to eat very much. Every time their friends come to my house as guests, they will definitely sell this dish or cook it themselves. I ate it when I was young, but I never eat it now. What kind of dish is it?

That is fried snails. When eating this dish, hold a toothpick in your right hand and a snail in your left hand. Use the toothpick to pick out the snails and bring the snail to your lips with your left hand. , suck hard, suck the snail meat into your mouth, it tastes delicious. Throw the shells on the table and eat a plate of snails. A table full of snail shells takes up a lot of energy to suck.

I don't want to eat any of them now, and not only do other people my age or older don't want to eat them, but they are very strong and delicious.

The cooking method of snails is also very troublesome. After buying them, they need to be washed and kept in a basin or bucket for several days, and the water needs to be changed repeatedly. Before frying, the top of each field snail must be removed with vise pliers, washed repeatedly, and blanched until cooked. Prepare these seasonings: star anise, cinnamon, pepper, stone ginger, bay leaves, onion, ginger, garlic, dried chili pepper, raw red chili pepper, cooking wine, light soy sauce, etc.

Heat the pot, pour in cooking oil, wait for the cooking oil to heat up, then pour in the reserved garlic slices, dried chili segments, Sichuan peppercorns, stone ginger, star anise, and cinnamon. Stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in the snails, turn up the heat and sauté the snails, then add appropriate amounts of soy sauce, white sugar, cooking wine, bean paste, and light soy sauce, stir-fry evenly, then add a bowl of water, cover the pot and cook The snails are ready for 15 minutes. After the time is up, open the lid and see that the soup in the pot has reduced a lot. Add the reserved chopped green onions and chopped red peppers, stir-fry evenly, and serve on a plate.

Be careful not to fry the snails for too long. Over time, the snail meat will become old and not so tender. Snails contain high protein, fat, calcium, iron, phosphorus, carbohydrates, vitamin A, and have diuretic and swelling effects.

In addition to being difficult to suck, snails grow in water and are very cold and damp, so they are not suitable for the elderly. So only young people like to eat it, and most old people don't like it.

What I remember most is that in my hometown in the north, vegetables are dried according to the season. When summer vegetables are on the market, winter dried vegetables are prepared. There are about a dozen kinds of vegetables, such as

Dried eggplants, dried beans, dried zucchini, dried pumpkins, dried potatoes, dried cucumbers, etc...

In that era of very poor economy, no one paid attention to eating habits, as long as they could have enough food and clothing. I am very satisfied with the warmth. I remember that when I was a child, I loved to eat the "muddled porridge" made by my mother. It is probably the best food in my memory. My mother's love is the greatest in the world. She can make ordinary food the most delicious. Delicious food.

A bowl of "muddled porridge" does not make us confused. It records a history and also records the family affection and love in our childhood.

I still remember how my mother made this bowl of "muddy porridge". The steps are as follows. It is made by combining leftover millet, pumpkin, cornmeal, potatoes and white flour. To make porridge, first stir-fry lard, onions, ginger and garlic, then add pumpkin and potatoes until they are 6 ripe, then add cornmeal and white flour, then add the remaining millet, this pot of delicious "muddled porridge" And so it was born.

Although our current economic and material life have been greatly improved, we still lack spiritual and ideological pressure. The progress and development of society and the cruel competition between people have also made us have some People have lost their original simplicity, kindness, honesty and trustworthiness. The story of a bowl of "muddleheaded porridge" should arouse people in the new era to not forget their original aspirations and continue to move forward. We will surely move towards glory and glory.

In that era when it was rare to get lard for rice, food, it should be said that all materials were not abundant, and they had to be purchased with tickets. Types include food stamps, fish stamps, meat stamps, coal stamps, etc., which are used to purchase corresponding items.

I remember when I was in elementary school, to have breakfast at school, in addition to money, I also needed food stamps, which cost about a few kilograms and a few taels, which were divided into cents just like currency.

Under such conditions, there are not many opportunities to eat meat. When I was a kid, it took a long time for my younger brother to eat some sausage. He loved it and looked forward to eating it. The adults also teased him that he would have to marry a pork seller to fulfill his wish when he grew up.

If you have money and food stamps, you can eat pork, right? Oh, I'm afraid that's not possible. You have to go to the meat stall very early and queue up. If you're lucky, you might be able to buy it. It's not because there are many people in need, it's just because there's too little supply.

That’s it, we’ve arrived. Lean pork is not popular. Fatty meat, especially pork suet, is the most popular item. Everyone likes oily and plump things.

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In fact, almost every time, it is the second uncle who is the monkey spirit who can buy the pork suet home.

I bought pork fat and suet. The old lady will boil them into lard. After about an hour, when the fat or lard shrinks into a small piece and turns into golden lard residue, the lard is ready. Of course, you can boil it again, but then the lard residue will become charred and black, and the lard will no longer be a nice white color.

After the lard cooked in winter is cooled, it will solidify and turn into a fragrant and white piece. At this time, just prepare a bowl of white rice, an appropriate amount of soy sauce, scoop a small spoonful of white lard on the rice noodles, and mix well.

Put a spoonful of this rice in your mouth, it is fragrant and smooth, no need to add other dishes, just like this, you can finish a bowl of rice. The remaining lard residue can be used as a dish.

In that era, it was indeed the favorite dish of poor families.

I’m afraid lard is rarely used nowadays. Nowadays, the world talks about the discoloration of fat and cholesterol, and regards lard as a scourge. Even the wife cakes and moon cakes that used lard to make Chinese snacks have been innovatively improved and replaced with other oils, not to mention lard for rice. Got it!