Chapter 245: West Lake Vinegar Fish
"Hehe, there are a few bottles, I'm happy today, and I happened to bring one with me. www.biquge.info"With that, Chen Dong took out a bottle of wine without any words and labels, no, it shouldn't be a bottle of wine, but a jar of wine.
"It's ...... The best daughter is red...... "Tang Shan's saliva is about to flow."
Daughter red is not a famous wine, but it is better than a famous wine, this jar in Chendong's hand is a wine that has been hidden for a long time, and this kind of wine is hard to find.
Daughter red is a local traditional wine in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province,
As early as the Song Dynasty, Shaoxing is a famous wine producing area, Shaoxing people gave birth to a daughter, and when the child is full of moon, they will choose several altars of wine, seal the mouth of the altar with mud, bury it in the ground or hide it in the cellar, and wait until the daughter gets married when it takes out to entertain relatives and friends, so it is named "daughter red"!
The famous Shaoxing "Huadiao Wine" is also known as "Daughter Wine". China's Jin Dynasty Shangyu people's "Southern Grass and Trees" recorded: "Daughter wine is a must-have for rich families to give birth to daughters and marry daughters in the old days", speaking of this name, there is a story!
Once upon a time, there was a master tailor in Shaoxing who wanted children after marrying his wife. One day, it was discovered that his wife was pregnant. He was so overjoyed that he hurried home in high spirits, brewed a few jars of wine, and prepared to entertain his friends and relatives when he had a child. Unexpectedly, the tailor had the idea of patriarchy, and the wife gave birth to a daughter, so the daughter did not take it out when she was full moon, and has been buried under the osmanthus tree.
Time passed, and his daughter grew up, born smart and clever, and inherited the tailor's craft, and became a relative to the tailor's apprentice, and he happily married his daughter. On the day of marriage, the tailor drank very happily, suddenly remembered a few jars of wine buried under the osmanthus tree more than ten years ago, and dug it out to entertain guests, as a result, as soon as the wine jar was opened, the aroma was tangy, the color was strong and the taste was mellow, and it was extremely delicious.
Therefore, everyone called this wine "daughter red" wine, also known as "daughter wine".
After that, when the next-door neighbors, people from near and far, gave birth to daughters, they made wine and buried it, and when they married their daughters, they dug up wine and invited guests, forming a custom.
Daughter red, belongs to the fermented wine in the rice wine, fermented with glutinous rice, brown sugar, etc., contains a large number of amino acids needed by the human body, the winter air in the south of the Yangtze River is humid and cold, people often drink this wine to enhance resistance. It has the effect of nourishing the body.
Absorb the water of Jianhu Lake in front of the door, brew Shaojiu Wanli fragrance, and the story of the red brand founded in the Jin Dynasty has been passed down for thousands of years.
As early as 304 A.D., in the Jin Dynasty, Shangyu Ren Jihan's "Southern Grass and Trees" has a record of women's wine and daughter's red wine as a necessary thing for rich families to marry daughters in the old days.
When the daughter cries on the ground, it will definitely make every father's heart hot, and the glutinous valley of the three acres of land will be brewed into three jars of daughter red, carefully packed and sealed and buried deep under the osmanthus tree in the backyard, just like the father's love that is deeply hidden, when there is nothing to do, go to the osmanthus tree to step a few feet, step a few feet as if the heart is also more steady.
Looking back at her daughter, her daughter has a red head rope on her head, and her eyebrows and eyes are like willow leaves in the Qingming season, which are getting brighter and brighter day by day. Since ancient times, this custom has been followed for a long time in the area of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. When the daughter is married at the age of eighteen, she sends wine to her husband's house as a wedding gift.
According to the old rules of Shaoxing, the first three bowls of wine scooped out of the altar should be presented to the daughter's father-in-law, biological father and husband, implying hope for longevity and good health. In the Shaoxing area, the custom of making daughter wine has been passed down for a long time.
When Lu You, a famous patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, lived in Dongguan Ancient Town, he wrote the famous poem after drinking his daughter's red wine: "I only want to live in Dongguan when I move home, and watch the moon in the lake at night."
Nowadays, there are also daughter red for sale on the market, with good quality, but unfortunately it lacks the original connotation.
"Hehe, don't stare at it, no matter how the original thief's methods are still there, let's go and help kill the fish." Just as Tang Shan was staring at the altar of daughter Hong, a full set of kitchen utensils had been sent to the painting boat.
There are also all kinds of seasonings that are complete, and the big guys are amazing, and they can do everything in a word.
And Tang Shan, even with Chen Dong, casually manipulated a knife to help Li Xiaoxi slaughter fish, and his technique was fast and skillful, which made Li Xiaoxi breathtaking.
It seems that the martial arts master is not only powerful in boxing, swordsmanship, and swordsmanship, but also extremely powerful in slaughtering fish.
Ye Chao saw that there were many helpers, and there were many people on the painting boat, so he used his heart magic to search the lake again, and saw that there were more than three catties, no matter what kind of fish they were.
Painting the boat, there were twenty or thirty more fish at once, and Li Xiaoxi stared at him: "Enough, enough......"
Most people don't know how to eat so many fish, but it is possible that people on the boat can finish it. Let's not talk about the two old men, Li Xiaoxi can eat a few by herself, and don't look at Tang Ru and Lin Xueyang as women, they really let go of eating, and they eat more than three adult men.
As soon as the kitchen utensils arrived, Li Xiaoxi couldn't wait to make fish.
First of all, the natural thing to do is the West Lake vinegar fish
West Lake vinegar fish is a traditional local flavor dish of Zhejiang Hangzhou Hotel.
It is usually prepared with grass carp as an ingredient. After cooking, pour a layer of smooth and oily sweet and sour, the pectoral fins are erected, and the fish meat is tender and delicious, with crab flavor, fresh and sweet and sour.
The history of vinegar fish in West Lake originated from Lin'an, Kyoto (now Hangzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty, and has to start from the "Song Sister Fish Soup" in Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Song Wu sister-in-law, a famous folk female chef in the Southern Song Dynasty, Gaozong Zhao took the dragon boat West Lake, once tasted its fish soup, praised endlessly, so her reputation was greatly enhanced, and she was regarded as the "ancestor" of the fish. Since then, Song's sister-in-law fish soup has become famous all over the world. Later, it was renovated by famous hands, and it became two famous dishes of West Lake vinegar fish and Song sister-in-law fish soup, which have been passed down to this day.
During the period of the Republic of China, the literati Liang Shiqiu once recorded the cooking method of the dish: the West Lake grass carp is selected, the fish is not more than a foot long, the weight is not more than half a catty, after slaughtering and cleaning up, the soup is boiled, the pot is cooked, the juice is thickened, poured on the fish, and it can be served.
Nowadays, this dish is available in several famous restaurants in Hangzhou, but it is not common in Hangzhou residents' homes, and now some restaurants have replaced it with sea bass.
In fact, there is an even more beautiful legend about the "West Lake Vinegar Fish".
Legend has it that in ancient times, there were two brothers surnamed Song, full of articles, very learned, and lived in seclusion in the West Lake to fish for a living.
The local villain Zhao Daguan once visited the lake, and met a woman who was wearing a yarn by the lake, and when she saw her beautiful appearance, she wanted to occupy it. As soon as he sent someone to inquire, it turned out that this woman was Brother Song's wife, so he used conspiracy to kill Brother Song.
The encroachment of the evil forces made the uncle and sister-in-law of the Song family very angry, and the two went to the official government to sue together, trying to uphold righteousness and make the villain punished.
How did they know that the government at that time was angry with the evil forces, and not only did not accept their complaints, but beat them with a stick and drove them out of the government.
After returning home, Sister-in-law Song asked Brother Song to pack up and flee quickly, so as not to be followed by villains to retaliate. Before leaving, my sister-in-law burned a bowl of fish, added sugar and vinegar, and cooked it in a peculiar way.
Brother Song asked his sister-in-law: Why is the fish burning like this today?
Sister-in-law said: Fish are sweet and sour, I want you to go out this time, don't forget how your brother died, if your life is sweet, don't forget the bitterness of the people being bullied, don't forget the bitterness of your sister-in-law's hatred. The younger brother was very excited when he heard this, ate the fish, and left with his sister-in-law's heart in mind.
Later, Brother Song was determined to study hard abroad and became famous, and returned to Hangzhou to avenge his brother's murder and punish the villain.
But at this time, Sister-in-law Song had already fled and could not be found. Once, Brother Song went out to a banquet, and during the banquet he ate a dish, which tasted like his sister-in-law burned when he left home, and hurriedly asked who burned it, only to know that it was his sister-in-law's masterpiece.
It turned out that after he left, his sister-in-law hid incognito and hid in the official's house as a cook in order to avoid the villain's entanglement. Brother Song was very happy to find his sister-in-law, so he resigned from his official position, took his sister-in-law home, and resumed the life of a fisherman who fished for a living.
Later, someone ate this dish, and the poem was flourishing, and a poem was written on the wall of the restaurant: "The skirts are drunk and drunk, and the green sun is in the shadow; Why bother looking for Zhang Han perch (the reputation of the West Lake vinegar fish is better than the delicious Songjiang perch), the fish flavor is said to be the West Lake; ”
The last sentence of the poem refers to the legend of "West Lake Vinegar Fish".