Sauced plum meat

Sauced plum meat, a representative dish of Shanxi merchants' village, is also the third steaming in Jin style, which is named because it is steamed with soy sauce and tofu juice to remove fishy smell and refresh. Datong folk banquet has apricot and plum meat, which is steamed with dried apricots, and the method is slightly the same. According to legend, Chang Wei, the founder of the Chang family of Shanxi merchants, was a scholar who learned to do business. In the early years of Qianlong, he had accumulated 100,000 yuan. After that, he handed over his business to his son and devoted himself to teaching his grandson to read. Chang Wei found that these readers were too tired and often picked out the white meat in the dishes. Once someone sent him a can of bean curd with soy sauce. Chang Wei had a brainwave and dipped the white meat in bean curd with soy sauce. Sure enough, it was salty and fragrant. So he told the kitchen to steam the meat with soy sauce and tofu every time it was made, and named it "soy sauce and plum meat", which was put in a bun for these readers to eat. Over time, the sauce plum meat spread in Jinzhong area, entered the eight bowls and eight dishes banquet, and became a local specialty in Shanxi. In Taiyuan Quanjin Guild Hall, the method of eating pickled plum meat was improved, with lotus leaf cake, crispy square, shredded onion and shredded cucumber, which won the praise of customers and became a famous dish. The author once accompanied master Li Yaoyun, a famous gourmet, to taste this dish, which was aroused by it. By borrowing Bai Pu's "Qinyuanchun", he slightly changed the saying that "there is a shelf full of poems and books, which can be taught by future generations, with a piano and a bottle in one room, and friends and relatives are happy." Before the plum meat is sauced, it is delicious and comforting, and the fish, birds and mountains are ready to return. Forget it, visit the hometown of Shanxi merchants, and the food code is passed down. " Indeed, famous dishes have many allusions, and allusions are more polite. Such "Jin-style three steaming" has been passed down to this day, comforting people, and there is something that is delicious, nourishing the heart and benefiting the spirit. Although the dishes are ever-changing, this is a fresh soul.
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