Yimen smoked beef

Yimen pastrami is a special food in Yimen Town, Guoyang County, Bozhou City, Anhui Province. The beef produced by Yimen pastrami is neat in shape, bright red in color, extremely delicious, chewy, rotten in the mouth, delicious and very popular. Guoyang County is the "Top Ten Counties of Straw Cattle Raising in China". Yimen Town in Guoyang is a place where Hui people gather, so eating beef is the habit of people here. After long-term practice, Yimen people have explored a set of methods to smoke beef and formed beef food with unique flavor. Legend has it that the practice of smoked beef is related to Han Boyu, one of the filial sons of the last twenty-four. It is said that he has been extremely filial to his parents since childhood. Every time he comes back from going out, he will buy two baked wheat cakes for his parents with a piece of braised beef in the middle for his mother to taste. For a long time, the people in Yimen, Guoyang followed the example of Han Boyu. Every daughter left her mother's house and her son came back from home, she bought a stack of baked cakes with cooked beef as a gift to honor her parents, and formed a custom, which was passed down from generation to generation. Over time, Yimen's braised beef business has been enduring for a long time. The method of making Yimen pastrami is very unique. Braised beef chefs generally divide the fresh beef in winter, cut it into pieces, and make it even in thickness and neat in grain. Then, salt, fennel powder, brine, etc. are evenly sprinkled on the meat, and placed in the brine tank in layers. Turn the cylinder regularly and timely, and throw it three times a day (throw the meat onto a hard object such as a tree and throw out blood). When the meat is thoroughly marinated and semi-dry, seal the top of the cylinder into a cone with reed mats, burn sulfur internally, and use mortar for external use, and leave a vent hole at the top of the cone. After the sulfur is burnt out, the beef after being taken out of the tank is washed, cooked with seasoning, smoked with Chinese herbal medicines and spices, fried in fragrant flavor, cooled and sliced for eating. In this way, the beef made is neat in shape, bright red in color, delicious, chewy, rotten in the mouth, delicious and very popular.
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