Step inside a century-old shop and discover the secret recipe for sausages
When it comes to Jinghai food, what can you think of?
Is it a single stream of stewed fish, or Tang Guantun shabu mutton.
Or a scorpion.
However. In the map of the quiet sea full of food.
The "old Dongxiang" sausage in Zhongwang Town.
With its high-quality raw materials and traditional manufacturing techniques.
Make this prestigious specialty snack.
It has become an indispensable delicacy on the table of consumers.
Today, we will visit the field.
It belongs to Zhongwang Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
Tianjin Laodongxiang Food***
Explore the distant source of the incense of the "Lao Dongxiang" sausage.
Feel the century-old delicacy of traditional intangible cultural heritage food.
In Zhongwang Town, it is easy to buy authentic "Lao Dongxiang" sausages, and the sales store of a front store and back factory operated by Tianjin Lao Dongxiang Food *** is located on the main road of Zhongwang Town. The store's sales counter is equipped with a series of fresh meat products, all of which are smoked foods, with attractive aromas, among which the main "Lao Dongxiang" sausage, which has been passed down for a hundred years, has a long history and a good reputation.
Zhao Guoqing, deputy manager of Tianjin Laodongxiang Food, said: "'Laodongxiang' sausages are expensive in freshness, and the fresher they are, the more fragrant they are. Our sausages are made on the same day and sold on the same day, and if we sell them the next day, we won't have that umami. Why can it only be stored for 2-3 days?Because there are no preservatives added in it, it is all natural. ”
In order to ensure that consumers can eat the pure taste of "Lao Dongxiang" sausages, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the production staff must start processing and production at about 3 o'clock in the morning every day, and at 8 o'clock in the morning, the fragrant sausages with a warm smell are placed on the sales counter.
So, how is the century-old "Lao Dongxiang" sausage made?Under the leadership of Zhao Guoqing, we unveiled the mystery of sausage production.
Walking into the production workshop, the mouth-watering aroma comes to your face, and when you take a deep breath, you can also feel the faint fragrance of Chinese herbal medicine. Willow wood tables, brick stoves, iron-cast soup pots, bamboo cages and drawers ......Most of the objects in the workshop exude a strong sense of heritage. From slaughtering, sorting, batching, mixing, filling, fumigation to the final drawer, the entire operation process is connected in an orderly manner, each operation area is its own, in addition to cutting meat filling with the help of simple machinery, some key links, technological processes are completely in accordance with the traditional production mode, adhere to manual operation.
Zhao Guoqing introduced, in order to ensure product quality, in addition to maintaining the traditional characteristics in the process, in terms of raw materials, "Lao Dongxiang" sausages are selected from the self-built breeding professional cooperatives to feed high-quality pigs as raw materials, with fresh pork of the day, accompanied by more than a dozen kinds of pure natural seasonings, using traditional manual technology, boiled and smoked by a hundred years old soup. So far, it still maintains the original flavor, the entrance is delicious and delicate, the flavor is unique, fragrant but not greasy, fresh and refreshing, and it has become a delicacy on the table of the general public.
In order to meet the needs of different taste consumer groups, in recent years, on the basis of inheriting the old tradition and old technology, the "Lao Dongxiang" brand sausage has continuously updated the production conditions, expanded the processing capacity, and developed the food category, so that the product has developed from a single ordinary enema to today's high, medium and low categories to meet the needs of consumer groups at different levels. In 2005, the "Lao Dongxiang" brand sausage was officially registered, in 2008, it was included in the Jinghai District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project, and in 2013, it was included in the list of Tianjin Intangible Cultural Heritage - "Intangible Cultural Heritage on the Tip of the Tongue".
Sausages are small, but they have a way. Now, the "Lao Dongxiang" sausage, which has become a "time-honored brand in Tianjin", has been put on a new honor. Zhao Guoqing said that they will inherit the traditional flavor, maintain the excellent craftsmanship, continue year by year, step by step, further enhance the cultural connotation and supply quality of the time-honored brand, and rejuvenate the "century-old brand".
*: Jinghai Fusion Media.