Chapter 751: Oyster Sauce

Su You said with a smile: "Where, in fact, they are all local practices, but the sauce and seasoning are just made of things from Shu." ”

"In addition to steaming, salting, and fish tart, the rest is made from soy sauce, tempeh, tofu, and soybean paste. Haven't you noticed that beans and fish and seafood can really go well together? ”

"It's not about coveting pleasure, an extra spoonful of soy sauce for steamed fish, a few more slices of ginger, before leaving the pot to secrete the soup of steamed fish, sprinkle a handful of shredded ginger and shallots, and pour a spoonful of oil, where can you get Yile?"

"At most, this is to try my best to live my current life more elegantly and interestingly, in fact, it is not difficult, the key depends on whether you have a mind."

"Mr. Koyama, how about this table? Can you be elegant? ”

Yan Jidao was full of praise: "The taste is absolutely fine, but if you want to be elegant, you still have to work the pattern plating, such as crab meat." What's the matter, Ming Gong is preparing to send the property to Bianjing? ”

Su You said: "If you want to find a way to buy fresh goods, you can actually send some of them, but that's just to make a reputation for seafood, and the cost is too high." The main thing is to take the road of dry pickling. ”

Yan Jidao was curious: "It takes two months on the road, how can fresh water bring living creatures?" ”

Su You said: "My family is an expert in raising goldfish, fish farming, to ensure enough space for activities, to ensure the dissolution of oxygen in the water, the filter tank is effective, from Hangzhou to Bianjing is not a difficult task." I'm not giving it to all Bianjing people, as long as the palace officials can taste the seafood. ”

Yan Jidao was a little worried: "Ming Gong, I'm afraid this move is to provoke discussion." ”

Su You smiled: "This is the old routine of the Sitong firm, which is called contacting customer feelings." I traveled thousands of miles to send a few fresh Jiaqi to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty was embarrassed not to buy tens of thousands of catties of seafood from my Liangzhejiang Road? ”

Yan was speechless: "You, you ......"

Su You was confident: "You just said that these seafood are transported to Bianjing, is it good for the people of Bianjing?" This year's Spring Festival Bianjing people can buy kelp yellow fish, dried abalone, crab roe and oyster sauce in the Ten Thousand Surname Market, so are they happy? ”

Yan Jidao was stunned again: "What is oyster sauce?" ”

Su Youthief smiled: "High-end goods, high-end goods will definitely become popular in Bianjing City in the future." ”

During the banquet, Su You explained to several patriarchs the regulations of the large fleet going to sea, because the safety factor of the Sitong sea ship is very high, and the channel is also familiar, coupled with advanced measurement technology, navigation is the absolute profiteering of the windfall profit.

Therefore, the salary is set very high, twice as high as Long Jicai's county order, and the monthly income is twenty-four yuan including food and housing! For an ordinary family in Dingkou, Changguo County, this is simply the rhythm of a pilot in later generations!

After dinner, Su You and Jin Yi, Yitian, Yan Jidao, Long Jicai was also about to talk about Buddhism and poetry and songs, but people began to appear at the door, all of whom came to inquire about the news.

was disturbed and couldn't talk, and Sanniang didn't see a trace, Su You couldn't help but feel a little worried, so he simply called Zhang Qi to visit, and took a walk.

When I came to Sanniang's house, the babies finally came back, the eldest was only twelve, a total of five, and the family road was indeed difficult.

The family was eating, there was no rice, it was all sea vegetables, fish and shrimp and the like.

This is really so poor that he only eats seafood every day, Su You looked at the loofah and mussels in the bowls of the babies, and smashed his mouth: "I forgot to write this on the fire list, but it doesn't taste good without oil." ”

Sanniang hurriedly got up: "The official is here, and I haven't thanked the official for sending the silver ribbon fish." ”

Su You saw that there was no silver ribbon fish on the table at all, and it was estimated that it had been pickled by Sanniang and was ready to sell it to subsidize the family.

It's not good to mention this stubble: "It's good to receive it, you eat first, don't worry about me, I'll take a look at it at random, the winter melon and loofah at home are not bad." ”

After turning around, there is a duck pen behind the house, raising a nest of ducks, and it is estimated that there are a lot of scraps such as clams, fish and shrimp at home, and they all look oily and cunning.

Su You nodded: "Third brother, this family's duck eggs must be suitable." ”

Zhang San nodded: "There is no shortage of salt." ”

Now that the duck eggs are less than ten cents, Su You said: "Let Sanniang get some salted duck eggs in a while." ”

Zhang San smiled: "Young master remembers us when we were children, right?" ”

Su You sighed: "It can be regarded as giving them a livelihood." Let's go, go back and see. ”

The children have already finished eating, and it is estimated that Sanniang also asked them to hurry.

Sanniang took out a clay pot: "Official, this is boiled out after straining the abalone juice today, I smell very fragrant, is it what you want?" ”

Su You dipped his finger in a little and tasted it, and smiled: "You also put salt." ”

Sanniang said: "My abalone juice was originally going to be salted. After speaking, he was a little worried: "Is it not suitable?" ”

Su You said: "Together, that's it, hahaha, oyster sauce!" Does Sanniang have any ideas to open a workshop? I invest my money! ”

Sanniang was a little frightened: "Just get this?" ”

Su You nodded: "Just get this, but the yield of this method is too low, so you have to change the production method." ”

Sanniang was a little apprehensive: "I'm afraid...... The major event of delaying the underinsurance. ”

Su You said with a smile: "I can't delay, you are so diligent and tidy, it is more than enough to be a workshop manager, you can do this oyster sauce first, and then I will find you to do a big job when my new method test is successful." ”

The umami of seafood products such as oyster sauce is very mysterious to today's Song people. For soda oil, it is just the process of breaking down macromolecular proteins into amino acids.

To break down proteins, enzymes are needed.

It sounds so lofty, but in fact, there are two kinds of light oil that you know - one is papaya powder, and the other is tempeh or bean paste.

The enzymes in the tempeh sauce are produced by Bacillus subtilis, and the papaya is innate.

The rest of the work is to grind, hydrolyze, filter and boil the oyster meat.

Of course, in order to get more umami, it is necessary to add sugar to have a chemical reaction with it, and add starch to avoid delamination, these are the life experiences accumulated from long-term research on food.

This thing really didn't come from the later generations by Su You, it was purely because he combined the knowledge of the later generations and the experience of decades of great foodies, and he felt that he could completely get it.

Watching Sanniang and the children live on the remnants or small waste oysters as food, Su You felt that it was necessary to change the family's life.

There are requirements for recruiting seafarers, and this matter is personally checked by Zhang San.

Zheng Xia only got up on the second day, poured a meal of seafood porridge, and was rejuvenated by the deliciousness.

Then he was dragged by Su You to conduct experiments in the backyard of Sanniang's house.

Sanniang was very happy, Shaobao rounded the dry goods at home, and also ordered salted duck eggs.

I sent hundreds of catties of millet, dozens of catties of rice, and dozens of catties of oil to my family. said that he likes to eat Sanniang's loofah roasted oysters and winter melon shell soup, and pulls Zheng Xia and Yan a few dishes here every morning to tinker until evening.

Sanniang is a widow, but Shaobao is not alone, so she is not afraid of other people's gossip.

Oyster syrup is added with soybean sauce rich in subtilis, as well as dilute hydrochloric acid, which are all routines developed by the soy sauce developed back then, and after fermentation for a period of time, the protein in the pulp is broken down a lot.

This kind of oyster syrup is much thicker than Sanniang's soil method at the beginning.

After sedimentation and filtration, the original oyster juice is obtained, and the dregs are thrown away to feed the ducks.

And feeding the fish.

In a quiet bay, a fish steak was made by Su You, and the jaki fish with intact fur color caught this time were all sent by Su You to raise in it.

The largest one is ten pounds, which can be called the king of Jiaqi fish.

Then boil the juice in the pan to get the original oyster sauce.

The original oyster sauce is gray in color, easy to stratify, not good-looking, not delicious and not easy to preserve, so the original oyster sauce must be changed for a second processing.

Heat the iron pot first and smear it with a layer of vegetable oil. Then add sugar to heat and dissolve.

Once the sugar solution is bubbly and viscous and golden brown, add water and oyster sauce. The purpose of adding water is to dilute the free amino acids inside, and then slowly heat it to about 90 degrees Celsius, and gradually turn the color of the oyster sauce to reddish-brown.

Next, similar to thickening, a certain proportion of starch and seaweed boiled gum is used as a cellulose thickener, so that the liquid is not stratified, and has a thick appearance, improving the quality of the product.

Salt is also added to this process for freshness and mildew prevention.

Finally, it is bottled, steamed, sterilized, and then capped and sealed.

It's actually similar to making soy sauce, but in a much shorter time. The preliminary process flow was figured out, and it was already five days later.