What is the origin or history of Fuzhou snack "Rouyan"? The more, the better.

Among the famous flavor snacks in Fuzhou, "Taiping Yan" is unparalleled in the country and a must in the country.

To say "peace", you need to say "swallowing skin" first. The making of swallow skin is very troublesome. First of all, we should choose the best leg meat, peel and remove tendons, cut it into pieces (exquisite knife method), then beat it with a wooden hammer (two people stand opposite each other and one person eats it) until the meat becomes paste, add a certain proportion of potato flour, make a thin skin, cut it into small pieces three inches square, and wrap it with meat stuffing to make a flat food with soup (wonton in the north). In the meat stuffing, it is better to mix minced meat. Because the skin, stuffing and soup are all made of lean meat, the taste is particularly delicious.

The general snack practice is to steam the wrapped swallows' skins in a cage first, then cook them when the guests want to eat them, and add soup and chopped green onion. There is also a soup made of shredded swallow skin, called shredded swallow soup; Another is to chop the meat into pills and dip it in shredded pork to make soup, which is called pill swallowing soup; Another is to cook shredded pork soup with red distiller's grains, beat poached eggs, and call them wrapped in wine and meat; Another kind of meat swallow is made of cooked duck eggs, yuba, fragrant shavings and Chinese cabbage. This is the most famous and popular swallow of peace. In Fuzhou, regardless of weddings, funerals and weddings, all kinds of banquets must be served in Taiping Yan.

The most famous old-fashioned swallow skin in Fuzhou is Tongli Laopu, located at No.3 Macau Road, which has a history of 100 years. In addition to Tongli, Fuzhou also has many old shops that make swallow skins. If you come to Fuzhou and want to stroll around the alleys, you only need to hear a series of rhythmic "clicking" sounds and follow them. That's where the handmade swallows are. I have known for a long time that Fuzhou compatriots can only bring out a catty of swallows when they leave the country.

The origin of swallowing meat

"Yan Rou" is a famous traditional food in Pucheng. It is thin but not greasy, soft and crisp, fresh and delicious, just like bird's nest, and has a vegetarian taste. It is an essential dish in the wedding, funeral and festive cage seats in this county. According to legend, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhen Dexiu gave a banquet when the prisoner Pucheng was sweeping the base area. The accompanying chef Lin Arong (from Fuzhou) called the temporary chef Xu (from Donghu, Fuling) to pound fish balls, mistakenly thinking that it was meatballs, and the refined meat was pounded with sauce powder. O Lin was helpless. Just flatten it, it's as thin as dough, shredded and cooked, its color is crystal clear, and it tastes like bird's nest. Since then, Pucheng and Fuzhou have been handed down from generation to generation for imitation. Swallows produced in Fuzhou and Minqing are classified as "Pucheng Upper Bai Yan Skin" or "Clear Water Flour Swallow Skin", and those produced outside Fujian are called "Fujian Swallow Skin".

Swallow skin in Pucheng is finely carved, fresh lean meat is picked, mashed with a wooden hammer, sprinkled with potato powder to form a hard blank, repeatedly crushed into thin slices with a round wooden stick, then folded, cut into pieces, dried, cut into filaments and sliced, which is called "swallow skin". The best quality swallow skin is about 120~ 130 pieces per catty, each piece is as big as tofu, white and thin, completely broken, and there is no flour. About 100 pieces of inferior O-shaped swallow skin (or silk) wrapped in meat are called "swallow flat food", and silk wrapped in stuffing, then

Taipingyan

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"Taiping Banquet" is a "big dish" at the wedding banquet in Fuzhou. When attending a banquet, firecrackers are set off, and guests can eat only after the bride and groom or their elders improvise their thanks. Flat-fleshed swallows are deeply loved by compatriots in Taiwan Province and overseas Chinese in Fuzhou. When you come to Fuzhou, you will bring back swallows as gifts for your relatives and friends.

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Swallow skin is made of lean pig's hind legs. The tendons and periosteum are removed, cut into thin strips, pounded into paste with a wooden pestle, slowly added with potato powder and appropriate amount of water, repeatedly stirred and pressed evenly to form a hard blank, and then placed on slats and rolled into thin sheets. Spread a thin layer of potato flour, fold it up and dry it a little to make fresh swallow skin. Continue to dry the dried swallows' skins, which will not be bad after a long-term storage for one year. Before filling, cut the swallow skin into two-inch squares with a knife. Chop lean pork, shrimp, horseshoe, seaweed, etc. Paste, add a little soy sauce and scallion to taste, wrap the square slices of yanpi into small flat slices, and steam them to make meat swallows.

Fuzhou people often mix "flat-fleshed swallow" with shelled duck eggs as a dish. Because "egg" is called "egg" in Fuzhou dialect, "duck egg" sounds like "suppression of chaos", and "suppression of chaos" means peace, so it is called "Taiping Yan", which is homophonic with "banquet" and is also called "Taiping banquet"

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Among the local snacks in Fuzhou, only "Taipingyan", also known as "Xiaochangchun", can stand shoulder to shoulder with fried dumpling.

There is no banquet without swallows, and there is no year without swallows. Taiping Yan, not to mention a foreigner, some Fuzhou people are confused now without a little explanation. To say "peaceful face", we must first say the origin of "swallowing skin". Without "swallowing skin", what about "peaceful face"

It is said that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was an old man who retired from his hometown in Pucheng County, a mountainous area in northern Fujian bordering Jiangxi. Although he lives in a mountainous area, although he has delicacies, he eats too much and becomes dull. So, the chef of that family came up with a new trick. He took the lean pork leg, beat it into paste with a mallet, mixed in a proper amount of sweet potato powder, rolled it into small pieces as thin as paper, cut it into small pieces three inches square, wrapped it with meat stuffing, made it into flat meat (wonton), cooked it with soup, and served a bowl of snacks to the host. After eating it in his mouth, this suggestion only made him feel tender and crisp. He even called it "wonderful" and asked, "What kind of snack is this?" The cook made snacks to please the host. Where did his name come from? Fortunately, the chef's brain can make a sharp turn. Seeing that the flat meat in the bowl looks like a flying swallow, he casually called it "flat meat swallow". From this deduction, there is the saying of "swallowing skin". It turns out that this kind of "swallow skin" was originally enjoyed by a large family. Later, this skill of beating swallow skin was gradually introduced to Fuzhou, and swallow skin became a commodity, a well-known dish and the most famous Fujian flavor in Fuzhou.

Taiping Yan is also called "Little Changchun" because flat meat looks like Catharanthus roseus, and "Yan" is homophonic with "feast", and Taiping Yan is also called "Taiping feast". So, where did the word "Taiping" come from? It turns out that there are complete duck eggs in the Taiping swallow. In Fuzhou dialect, "duck egg" is homophonic with "suppression of chaos" and "suppression of waves", and all kinds of chaos in social life have been suppressed. Fuzhou people have lived a lot overseas, and the "waves" have been suppressed while rowing. Of course, it is "peaceful". On holidays, weddings, funerals and celebrations, gatherings of relatives and friends, and folk family banquets, we should all have a "harmony" and "harmony". This peace banquet is a must.

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Materials: pork pigeon 300g, meat swallow skin150g;

Ingredients: 50 grams of shrimp and one duck egg;

Seasoning: salt 10g, monosodium glutamate 10g, sesame oil 0.5g, sweet potato powder 10g, chopped green onion 5g, cooked lard 10g and broth 750g.

prepare

1. Wash pork and shrimp, chop them into mud, and add 5g of refined salt, 5g of monosodium glutamate, sweet potato powder, sesame oil, etc. , and the duck eggs (as a cementing agent) are beaten evenly and stirred into meat stuffing.

2. The meat swallow should be cut into cubes with a length of 8 cm and a width of 8 cm. Wrap them in a round-headed pine tail with a piece of meat stuffing, put them in an oiled plate and steam them in a steamer for 5 minutes until they are cooked.

3. Cook the broth, add a little chopped green onion and oil, add a few shelled duck eggs, add vermicelli, mushrooms, yuba and so on. Together with the steamed meat swallow, it is a steaming, smooth and delicious "Taiping swallow".

skill

1. Swallow skin is fresh and dry, and dried meat swallows can be kept in the refrigerator for half a year.

2. You can add chopped green onion, diced celery and diced coriander as you like. You can only choose one, otherwise it tastes bad.

3. If you don't want to waste time wrapping meatballs, you can cut the skin of swallows into strips one centimeter wide and cook them like noodles in clear soup, which is also crisp and slippery!