Childhood Memories of Old Taizhou - Immortal Soup

time:2023-03-26 13:39:01 source:chloeaktas.com author:Graduate girl
Childhood Memories of Old Taizhou - Immortal Soup

In Taizhou in the 1960s and 1970s, people generally had low wages, very poor living conditions, and long working hours. It was rare to have a day off a week. Sometimes they had to work overtime in the evening to hold meetings. Repair. Sometimes it is too late to cook at noon, or there are also factors of saving, people in old Taizhou like to use boiling water to make a bowl of "immortal soup" for dinner. The so-called "immortal soup" is actually soy sauce soup. It is to pour two spoons of soy sauce in a bowl of the sea, put a piece of lard, and then brew it into a bowl of soy sauce soup with fat and oil, commonly known as "immortal soup", there are no other dishes, Just deal with the lunch in the past. Sometimes, in order to make it more convenient, the soup is not made, just pick a piece of fat and mix it with the rice and eat it. Because of the moisturizing of fat and oil, the rice also looks particularly fragrant. From this, when I was a child, I thought that fat is a good thing. When I was about four years old, I was at my grandmother's house in the countryside. I entangled my grandma and insisted on tasting the fat alone. My grandmother was so entangled by me that she picked a small piece of fat with chopsticks and put it in my mouth. I tried it and found it bland and not as tasty as it would be in a meal. From now on, it is no longer required to eat fat and oil alone. It became one of several impressions from my childhood that I still remember. When I was a child, I was always thirsty and had nothing to eat at home, so I tried to find something to eat to replenish my oil and water. This craving continued until I was in high school in the 1980s. Sometimes there are grass prawns sent by relatives in the village. After being cooked and sun-dried, they are stored in bamboo baskets, and a few grass prawns are added to increase the freshness when preparing for daily cooking. With such a good opportunity, I used my brain to eat these grass shrimps. I imitated the practice of "Shenxian Soup", put a handful of these grass shrimps in a bowl, poured a small amount of soy sauce, picked a small piece of fat, and then added pepper, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, cooking wine, salt, pepper, star anise Wait for the condiments you can find, then pour into the hot boiling water, drink a bowl of appetizing "immortal soup", taste the taste of grass shrimp and the strong fragrance of various condiments in the soup. This enjoyment continued for several years, and each year became my own repertoire. I don't know why I like to drink this improved "fairy soup" so much, maybe it's a nostalgia for the days of drinking "fairy soup" when I was a child! After getting married and starting a family, I am still keen to recommend "Sacred Immortal Soup" to my wife. Of course, this "Sacred Immortal Soup" is no longer a "Sacred Immortal Soup" in the traditional sense, but a "Crab Yellow Immortal Soup" with strong color and aroma. Every year to September and October when the crabs are on the market, with my encouragement, my wife would go to the vegetable market to buy a lot of crabs, steam them, release the crab roe and crab meat, put in a large piece of fat and boil it into crab oil, put it in Put into large jars and store in the refrigerator. Usually when you want to drink soup, pick a large piece of crab oil into the sea bowl, then add various seasonings, and brew it with boiling water to make a bowl of rich crab oil soup. There are pieces of crab roe and crab meat floating in the soup. Then sprinkle chopped green onion and shredded ginger, the taste of the soup is so delicious that you will be slapped in the face, and you are not willing to throw the bowl away! Of course, this crab oil can also be made into crab roe tofu soup. This is a famous dish in Taizhou. What is the happiness of life, the happiness of life is not a big truth, the happiness of life is reflected in one drink and one bite.

(Responsible editor:A solitary woman)

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