Boiled shredded beans, fried beans with bacon, shredded beans and sauerkraut cakes, shredded beans on kang, shredded beans with cold salad, shredded beans soup, ......On the table of three meals a day during the Spring Festival of Wuhan Huangpi people, there is always a delicacy made of shredded beans. Tasting this authentic Huangpi bean shredded bean that symbolizes family reunion, every bite is full of New Year's flavor.
Song Weihua, the owner of Mengyuan Farm, shows the made shredded beans.
Shredded beans are one of the three traditional snacks in Huangpi, and they are also an indispensable New Year's goods for Huangpi people. Entering the wax moon, every household in Huangpi will raise the smoke to make shredded beans.
Song Weihua, 62 years old this year, is a native of Song Dawan, Shuangquan Village, Mulan Township, Huangpi District, grew up eating shredded beans, and learned to make shredded beans at the age of 17.
The farmhouse is full of fireworks, and the fragrance of beans is thick. Recently, a Jimu News reporter walked into Song Weihua's Dream Farm, where he and two villagers were busy making traditional Huangpi handmade bean shreds. Under the spacious and bright tin canopy, a wood-fired stove is built near the mountain, the stove is covered with tiles, and two large iron pots are steaming. On the wall, the big words "Huangpi specialty" and "pure handmade" are clearly visible.
Yu Feng'e and Zhang Xiaoping are making shredded beans.
In front of the stove, 60-year-old Ms. Yu Feng'e scoops out the ground puree from a stainless steel bucket, pours it into a hot pot on the left, and then uses the large mussel shells picked up from the beach as a tool to flatten the puree into a large pancake shape. Covering the pot, Yu Feng'e lifted the lid of the big iron pot on the right, the heat rose, and a bean cake came into view. Yu Feng'e didn't care about the heat, and skillfully threw the bean cake in the big iron pot onto the stainless steel counter behind her. On the countertop, the bean cake that has just come out of the pot is steaming. The reporter noticed that it takes about a minute to make a bean cake.
Song Weihua shows the bean cake that has just come out of the pot.
In front of the stove, 63-year-old Zhang Xiaoping's mother-in-law was wearing an apron and was taking care of the fire in the two stoves.
Yu Feng'e and Zhang Xiaoping cooperate tacitly, one is responsible for watching the fire, the other is responsible for making cakes, and exchanges experience and experience in making shredded beans from time to time.
Ms. Yu Fung-ngor is harvesting bean cakes.
I am a native of Huangpi, and I have memories of eating shredded beans during the Chinese New Year, and I also took shredded beans as a gift when I went to my relatives' house to pay New Year's greetings. When I was 16 years old, I watched my mother make shredded beans, and I tried it once, and I felt that the production process was not difficult. Zhang Xiaoping was busy while communicating with Jimu News reporters.
After the puree is made into a bean cake, the next step is to use a knife to cut the bean cake into finger-width bean shreds, then put them outside to dry, and then dry them before storing them in bags.
Ms. Yu Feng'e is cleaning up the bean cakes.
Song Weihua introduced that every year from October onwards, he will begin to hand-make shredded beans for external sales, the raw materials used include rice, soybeans, mung beans, wheat, kudzu powder, buckwheat and other 8 kinds of raw materials, each raw material is different according to what proportion each household is different.
The process of making shredded beans each time does not include the time to purchase raw materials, and it takes at least 4 days. On the first day, rice, soybeans, mung beans and other raw materials need to be soaked in water for different times according to the characteristics. After getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning the next day, the raw materials brewed the day before are put into an electric refiner to grind into raw pulp, and then burn the wood stove to make bean cakes. The next step is to cut the bean cake into a wide powder and let it dry in the sun for at least two days. Song Weihua told reporters that Huangpi has a wide area, although they all eat shredded beans, but the proportion of raw materials in each region is different, and the production method is similar.
Shredded beans in drying.
Every year in October, Song Weihua's Dream Farm will start selling shredded beans made by hand, which attracts a large number of consumers to buy because of its good taste. It is reported that after entering the wax moon, Song Weihua's Dream Farm can sell 200 to 300 catties of bean silk every day.
At the same time as the interview, the Jimu News reporter also met that Wen Bei, the Douyin food anchor, also went to Song Weihua's Dream Farm to shoot, and her Douyin account "Miss Wen Family" posted many times about Huangpi Dousi**.
The network anchor experience is to make Huangpi bean silk.
The reporter learned that Wen Bei is actually a native of Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, and his husband Mr. Xia, who is from Hengdian Street, Huangpi District, only knew that there is a delicacy of bean shreds, and fell in love with various ways to eat shredded beans after eating.
In the kitchen of Mengyuan Farm, the chef stir-fried a plate of bacon and fried beans on the spot, and the technique was skillful. Use chopsticks to pick up a mouthful of shredded beans and put it in your mouth, which is full of fragrance and aftertaste, and then you can't stop ......
Freshly out of the pot bacon fried bean shreds.
Fragrant bacon fried shredded beans.
In Huangpi, shredded beans can be eaten in a variety of ways, from breakfast to dinner. Boiled shredded beans, fried shredded beans with bacon, shredded beans and sauerkraut cakes, shredded beans on kang, shredded beans in cold salad, shredded bean soup and other ways to eat make the mouth water. There are also innovative practices of Huangpi people to make fruit-flavored bean shreds such as dragon fruit beans, which are also favored by many sellers.
Everyone, the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is approaching, come and buy Huangpi bean shreds and add an authentic delicacy to your family's Spring Festival table!
Jimu News reporter Liu Xiaobin Photojournalist Huang Shifeng).