Food starts with noodles

In spring, eat spring pancakes during the spring season, with sesame paste.

In summer, cold noodles can only be eaten with sesame paste.

In autumn, if you don’t eat sesame seed cakes, you always feel that something is missing.

In winter, eating mutton must be accompanied by sesame sauce to be authentic.

Throughout the year, people in Beijing cannot do without sesame paste.

No matter what kind of food you eat, you can dip it in sesame sauce.

In Chen Xiaoqing's words, in the eyes of people in Beijing, sesame paste can dip the entire universe.

When he was in the capital, the old man didn't have lofty goals like Yu Peiyong, nor did he put his mind on cooking.

Since he was a child, he heard his parents talk about the things in the capital, and he was full of curiosity about the Forbidden City, the Great Wall and various snacks.

After finally arriving in the capital, he must take a good look around to make up for his childhood regrets.

So the old man missed work when he had nothing to do, and rode a bicycle around the capital.

Turned the whole capital inside and out.

He knows all kinds of snacks and delicacies in the capital like the palm of his hand.

For example, the [-] sauce, the old man ate it and thought it tasted good.

When I was not busy, I rode a bicycle to observe the sauce factory.

From frying ingredients to grinding sauce to seasoning sauce, he looked at everything.

"Erba sauce is very simple. Mix [-]fen peanut butter and [-]fen sesame paste together and stir evenly. It is the Erbajiang sauce that makes people in the capital drool."

Boss Xu stared blankly at the old man: "Er Ba Jiang is less sesame sauce and more peanut butter?"

He always thought that the so-called erba sauce was eight fen sesame sauce and two fen peanut butter, but he turned it upside down.

The old man smiled: "In those days, sesame was too expensive to supply, so we had to grind a lot of cheaper peanuts into the sauce."

At the beginning, I just planned to deal with the people in the capital who have no sauce.

As a result, they found that it tastes better when mixed in this way.

Therefore, it has been deployed according to this ratio, which can also alleviate the shortage of sesame seeds.

And it also greatly reduces the cost of making sauce.

It's the best of both worlds.

Until now, people in Beijing still prefer to eat Erba sauce.

But the current [-] sauce is just a name, and in terms of ratio, it is closer to [-] points.

Because the sauce prepared according to the ratio of [-]% has a stronger sweetness and a more greasy taste.

But the [-]% sauce has no such problem.

The aroma is more intense and the taste is delicate and smooth.

The old man took a small basin and poured all the peanut butter that Xu Zhuo had just picked up into it.

Then get the cooked peanut oil and start diluting the peanut butter.

"What's the difference between peanut butter diluted in oil and diluted in water?"

Xu Zhuo looked at the old man's operation and asked the question in his heart.

After the old man poured some peanut oil into the basin, he explained to Xu Zhuo while stirring.

Whether it is peanut butter or tahini, it can be diluted with water or oil.

The advantage of diluting with oil is that it can be preserved for a long time.

Fat can insulate the air, so that the taste and texture can last for a long time.

However, the sauce diluted with oil tastes greasy and has higher calories, which is not good for health.

The advantage of diluting with water is low cost and simple operation.

But the shortcomings are also obvious.

Tahini diluted with water is perishable and cannot be kept.

So just eat as you go.

As the old man stirred, the peanut oil in the basin gradually decreased.

But the peanut butter looks extra oily.

Even the smell of peanuts began to waft out.

After the peanut and peanut oil in the pot were completely melted into the sauce, the old man scooped a few spoonfuls of sesame paste into it according to the amount in the pot, and continued to stir with chopsticks.

The peanut butter has been diluted and its viscosity has been reduced a lot.

However, after pouring the sesame paste, it is still a bit difficult to stir.

Xu Zhuo took over the work of the old man, and asked the little girl while stirring, "The delicious sesame sauce will be ready later, what do you want to eat?"

The little girl tilted her head and thought about it.

"Hmm...I want to eat hot-boiled mutton!"

Chapter 423 Shabu-shabu mutton

Hot mutton?

Xu Zhuo didn't expect the little girl to be so out of her mind that she would come up with the idea of ​​eating boiled mutton.

The temperature is cooling down today, and it looks like it will rain. It is also appropriate to eat mutton.

However, if you eat mutton, the ingredients seem to be incomplete.

The first thing Xu Zhuo thought of was leek flower sauce.

This thing is not easy to buy in Lin Ping City.

"There is no leek flower sauce in the store..."

"No, no, I don't like to eat anyway."

Since the little girl has no objection, let's do it.

Anyway, the store has the best Ximeng mutton, so it is absolutely no problem to cook mutton.

After Xu Zhuo mixed the sauce well, he dipped some of it with his chopsticks and tasted it. The taste did indeed have a hint of peanut sweetness, and it was very fragrant and delicate.

It's really good for dipping.

The next thing is easy.

Xu Zhuo brought a piece of frozen mutton from the freezer.

Before it was fully civilized, I began to cut the meat into thin slices with a knife.

The old man started to prepare the dipping sauce.

The freshly made sesame paste is just the first step.

Next, it's time to dilute the prepared sesame paste.

People in the capital call this step “澥酱”.

As a person who has been in the capital for several years, the old man is very familiar with this step.

He brought an empty basin, scooped a few spoonfuls from the prepared Erba sauce and poured it in.

Then bring some warm water and stir it into the sesame paste in small amounts and several times.

Sesame paste has strong water absorption, so at the beginning, every time you pour water, it will be quickly absorbed by the sesame paste, and even the sauce in the pot will become more viscous.

But as the amount of water increases, the sesame paste gradually becomes thinner.

It is not complete until the sesame paste can fall slowly and continuously in a straight line when scooped up with a spoon.

After finishing this step, the old man poured two spoonfuls of soft white sugar, two spoonfuls of oyster sauce, some light soy sauce and a little bit of rice vinegar into it.

Then continue to stir so that these ingredients are also incorporated into the sauce.

Then take a few pieces of fermented bean curd, crush them with a spoon, and mix them in.

The dipping sauce for eating mutton is basically ready.

The little girl looked at the dipping sauce made by the old man, and asked curiously: "Why did they put other ingredients when I ate instant-boiled mutton in the capital?"

The old man smiled and explained: "When the mutton is not good, you need to add more ingredients, so as to suppress the smell of the mutton."

Under normal circumstances, now is the time for Feng Weiguo to call 666.

As a result, Meng Weiguo was still in a daze.

There is no awareness that a fanboy should have.

So the old man couldn't help asking: "Why? Haven't you come out of memory yet?"

Only then did Feng Weiguo regain his senses, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"I remembered some things from the past. It's been 60 years in a flash. Time flies so fast."

The old man nodded: "Yeah, time flies so fast, I feel like I was having a state banquet in the Great Hall yesterday, I didn't expect that I would look like this in a blink of an eye..."

Feng Weiguo stood aside, expressing that he did not want to deal with this pretender.

He is hurting his youth, so it's fine if you don't coax him, but he still wants to pretend.

Are you still the big brother Xu who asked for warmth?

Feng Weiguo glanced at the old man resentfully, but found that the old man didn't look at him at all, but was instructing Xu Zhuo how to cut the mutton.

But Feng Weiguo was not annoyed, he poured cold water on the old man's back.

"If you have a copper pot, you can eat shabu shabu. You won't be able to make do with the induction cooker later, right?"

The old man patted his head, he really forgot about the copper pot.

Seeing the old man's reaction, Feng Weiguo giggled.

"You don't really plan to use an induction cooker, do you? But it doesn't matter if you use it. Anyway, let's eat by ourselves, so don't be too particular..."

The old man rolled his eyes at him: "It's just eating for yourself, so you have to pay attention to it."

After he finished speaking, he said to Xu Zhuo, "Grandpa Feng will cut the meat. You can bring the copper pot when you go home, buy some charcoal by the way, and then go to the forest park to get some mountain spring water."

Feng Weiguo looked at him in surprise: "Really?"

The old man snorted coldly: "Is it still a Lu cuisine master without a copper pot?"

Xu Zhuo took Yu Keke out.

The two went home first, found the copper pot at home, and put it in the trunk of the car.

I went to buy some smokeless fruit charcoal again.

Then I drove straight to Forest Park and filled a big plastic pot with spring water for kimchi.

"I'm curious, why do you use mountain spring water to eat boiled mutton? Is there any connection between this?"

Because they came out with Xu Zhuo, the little girl looked very excited.

Seeing Xu Zhuo carrying a large pot of mountain spring water, he was a little curious about what kind of operation it was.

She remembered that the hot-boiled mutton she ate last time in the capital seemed to be the bottom of a broth pot. There were all kinds of broth in the store, so why use mountain spring water?

Facing the little girl's doubts, Xu Zhuo patiently explained to her.

"The delicious hot-boiled mutton is always boiled with clean water, but considering the taste of tap water is too bad, so this mountain spring water is used."

"Is that delicious?"

"It depends on the quality of the meat. Good meat will be delicious when cooked, but poor quality meat will be full of blood..."

When they returned to the shop, the two old men were cutting meat.