After mastering the technique of making sesame cakes, Lin Xu prepared to make stacks of beef without hesitation.
Duo Beef, also called Duo Zi Beef or Beef Duo, uses boiled beef tendons to pile the cooked beef in a container and squeeze it into a bucket-shaped beef stack.
In the past, vendors who sold stacks of beef would often push a wheelbarrow to sell it, so this kind of beef was also called cart beef.
Cut the porcelain-solid beef into thin slices with a knife. It tastes fragrant and chewy.
Sandwiched into the sesame-burning cakes that came out of the new kang, the heat of the cakes will bring out the aroma of the beef again, and it's so delicious to take a bite.
When he was in junior high school, Lin Xu's favorite thing to do was to buy a biscuit with beef in front of a beef stall on the way home from school. Read a book
The hawker will use a special knife to show off his skills by cutting the beef slices off the stack. The slices are so thin that they can even be blown away by the wind.
When the slices are almost done, put the beef slices on the scale and weigh them. Then take a hot hot biscuit from the next door stall and put the beef slices into it.
One sesame seed cake and half a pound of beef. I walked home while eating.
I have basically eaten enough when I get home, and I can happily play computer games in the name of learning English.
Unfortunately, since the streets began to clean up small vendors and improve the appearance of the city, this kind of stacked beef is rarely seen. Occasionally, the shaobing stall that used to be a partner is no longer nearby.
Even if someone buys it, the vendors don't show off their skills like before.
He hurriedly sliced a pile of beef with a knife, checked it on the scale, and quickly bagged it and handed it to the customer, as if the customer regretted not buying it after a few seconds.
"Xubao, what are you thinking about?"
Shen Jiayue, who was off work, saw Lin Xu hugging Dundun and lost in thought. She thought something had happened, so she quickly asked with concern.
When Dundun saw the Great Demon King Yueyue, he immediately jumped on the service desk, then twisted his fat body and ducked into his hut, as if he was afraid that he would be caught if he hid too late.
Lin Xu came back to his senses and said with a smile:
"It's okay, I just remembered the same delicious food I liked to eat when I was in junior high school."
As soon as he heard about the food, Shen Baobao's eyes immediately lit up:
"Then can you give it to me?"
I ate Xubao's favorite food when he was in junior high school. Does this mean we have known each other since junior high school?
If my classmates had been better at that time, I could bully Xu Bao openly. When I missed him, I would find a corner where no one was around, press him against the wall and kiss him.
Hey, if you dare to resist, you will be kissed twice as much!
When he thought of the way he had ravaged Lin Xu in junior high school, Shen Baobao couldn't help but have a domineering smile on his face.
"Yes, this delicacy needs to be made one day in advance. I will make it now."
After saying that, he returned upstairs and ordered to the car boy:
"Call Boss Hu and ask Boss Hu to deliver 50 pounds of beef tendons and 20 pounds of beef tendons. I'm going to use the beef to make a delicacy."
When Chezi heard this, he immediately took out his mobile phone and made a call.
Beef? Beef tendon?
Are you making spiced beef?
Shen Jiayue was a little curious, but did not ask.
Because she didn't care what kind of food it was, she just heard that her Xubao liked to eat it, so she subconsciously wanted to try it.
Not long after, Che Zi hurried downstairs.
A few minutes later, he took the elevator up, and there was a simple trolley next to him, which contained the beef shank and beef tendons that Lin Xu ordered.
"Boss, the beef has been delivered."
When Lin Xu heard this, he immediately poured the beef from the bag into a basin, then added half of the basin of cold water and soaked it.
Stacked beef is different from ordinary braised beef.
For this delicacy, you need to boil the beef in plain water first, then sprinkle it with special seasoning powder, and then put it into a container and press it into shape.
In order to prevent the cooked beef from becoming fishy, it is necessary to soak the blood in the beef as much as possible before cooking.
Only in this way will the meat flavor be rich.
When soaking beef, use a kitchen knife to cut large pieces of meat into small pieces.
This not only facilitates soaking, but also allows for better placement in the container during final pressing.
After finishing these tasks, Lin Xu soaked the tendons again.
In the process of stacking beef, tendons act as an adhesive.
The soaking at this time is naturally not to remove the blood in the tendons, but to stretch the tendons as much as possible, so that they can be cooked through more easily when pressed with a pressure cooker.
"What is my brother-in-law busy with in the kitchen?"
Today, Chen Yan is wearing age-reducing overalls, a ponytail, and white canvas shoes. At first glance, she looks like a newly graduated college student.
"I want to make me the delicacies he ate when he was in junior high school. I don't know what they are."
"Then what do you know?"
"I know that a lonely old man is pretending to be young today... Oh, don't pinch me... Yan Bao, your clothes are so beautiful, you are younger and more fashionable, you look two years younger than me."
The two sisters were having a fight when they saw the driver pulling several boxes of fruit charcoal to the kitchen on a trolley.
"Chezi, what is this?"
"The boss asked for fruit charcoal. He said that to make roast suckling pig tomorrow, we must use high-quality fruit charcoal."
Roast suckling pig?
Chen Yan immediately became energetic.
Unexpectedly, my brother-in-law kept his promise and actually made roast suckling pig.
It is truly the conscience of the whole family.
After Lin Xu finished his work, he washed his hands and walked out of the kitchen. When he saw the big financier Chen Baiwan had got off work, he said:
"Just tell the waiter what you want to eat. I've just had dinner."
Chen Yan asked curiously:
"When will the beef you are playing with be ready, brother-in-law? Can we wait to eat it?"
"Then you can wait a little longer."
"It's okay, just tell me how long it will take to do it?"
"Tomorrow at noon..."
Chen Yan:??????
Brother-in-law, you are starting to be naughty too, right?
She stood up immediately:
"You guys chat, I'll go find Tiantian and refund the card first."
Baobao Shen quickly hugged her:
"Don't retreat, don't retreat, I'm kidding you, Yan Bao, don't forget to eat roast suckling pig tomorrow..."
Naturally, Chen Yan would not really cancel the card. She just wanted the unscrupulous young couple to know that she was now Lin Ji's big benefactor, not the cousin who hated marrying and was disliked everywhere.
7pm.
The store is full of customers.
Lin Xu took the swollen tendons out of the water and poured them into a large pressure cooker.
Then add water to cover the ingredients into the pot.
Cover the pot and start pressing.
As the adhesive for stacking beef, the tendons should be cooked thoroughly, even to the point of being slightly mushy, so that the gaps between the beef pieces can be filled and the beef will taste more chewy and chewy.
After pressing the tendons, Lin Xu changed the water for the beef and continued soaking it.
Taking advantage of this time, he brought a lot of spices, dried chili peppers, salt, MSG and other condiments, and began to make seasoning powder for beef stacking.
No seasonings or spices are added to the beef during the cooking process. Seasoning powder is only sprinkled when it is cooked and put into the container.
It can be said that whether the beef stack tastes good or not is directly related to the seasoning powder.
In the past, the recipe of the powder was a secret that was not passed down from family to family. Even within my own family, it was passed down from male to female, or even only to the eldest son.
I'm afraid it will spread outside.
This directly led to the loss of many secret cooking and seasoning recipes and traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, causing irreparable losses.
Lin Xu took a pot of fried dried products and put it on the stove. He put cinnamon, bay leaves, angelica, white cardamom, grass fruit, pepper, star anise, cloves, fennel and more than a dozen spices into the pot in sequence, and then put In the pot, stir-fry slowly over low heat.
Before the spices are ground into powder, they need to be roasted on the stove to get the fragrance. In this way, the ground powder will have a stronger fragrance. When sprinkled on the beef, the fragrance will penetrate into the beef more easily.
Soon, the aroma of spices wafted out from the pot.
Lin Xu took the pot away from the flame, placed it next to the stove and stir-fried slowly.
Don't rush this step, be sure to stir-fry slowly over low heat to let the aroma of the spices come out from the inside out.
When the spices were almost fried, he took two dried chili peppers and put them into the pot.
Stacked beef is generally five-flavored, and adding chili peppers is not for spiciness, but to enhance the flavor, so two dried chili peppers are enough. Any more will bring out the spicier flavor.
After all the spices are fried, pour these spices into a food processor, then add salt and a little sugar for freshness, and grind them into powder. Read the book
"Wow, it smells so good. Are you planning to make thirteen incense?"
After Wei Gan finished frying two dishes, he came over and smelled the aroma of the powder ground by Lin Xu, and couldn't help but ask.
Lin Xu smiled:
"This is the powder used to make beef stacks. It cannot be used as thirteen spices."
"Stacks of beef? Is it the stacks of beef that you could often see on the street in my hometown and sold on a cart? Do you want to make that thing? Then I have to try it."
Wei Qian remembered that the Duozi beef he ate as a child was very fragrant, but the ones he bought in the past two years had no aroma at all, especially the ones he bought at the New Year's Fair. They were all minced meat, even mixed with pieces of meat from other animals, and The ones made from pure beef in the past are completely incomparable.
Now seeing Lin Xu cooking this delicacy, his greed was suddenly aroused.
"This thing is suitable for eating with sesame cakes. Since you made Duozi beef, do you also make sesame cakes?"
"Let's do it. Put the beef on the stack today, and then make the sesame cakes tomorrow."
"Hey! Then I'll just wait and eat."
After the powder is ready, the beef is almost soaked.
Lin Xu took the meat out of the basin, controlled the water, put it into the soup bucket, and then added as much water as possible.
You don’t need to blanch white buffalo meat, but you need to boil it to skim off the foam, so you need to add more water so that you won’t be timid when skimming off the foam.
Soon, the water in the pot boiled.
Use a spoon to skim off the foam, then turn to medium-low heat and start cooking.
After cooking for about forty minutes, the aroma of the beef has completely emerged, and the meat can be easily pierced with chopsticks, which means the beef is cooked through.
When making beef stacks, you don’t need to overcook the meat, just cook it thoroughly.
The beef pressed in this way is more solid and has a stronger texture.
When fishing out the meat, Zhuang Yizhou came over to help when he had nothing to do. He put the fished out pieces of meat into a large iron basin, while Lin Xu sprinkled a layer of cooking powder on the surface of the meat pieces while it was still hot.
Sprinkle it evenly and put it in a basin. Zhuang Yizhou then starts to scoop out a piece.
Because it has been soaked before cooking, the meat does not look ruddy enough.
But Lin Xu knows that when the beef is pressed and sliced with a knife tomorrow, the ruddy color inside the meat will be revealed. That will also be the moment when the beef will make a stunning appearance.
Take out all the pieces of meat, bring over the deflated pressure cooker, bring in a small vat, and start pressing the meat.
First, scoop out a spoonful of boiled tendons at the bottom of the cleaned jar, and place a layer of meat pieces covered in powder.
Then pour another spoonful of tendons, press the meat pieces inside, let the tendons fill the gaps, and then put in new meat pieces.
Put one layer of meat and one layer of tendons in this way.
After placing it, cover the surface with a wooden lid that is slightly smaller than the mouth of the jar, then press a bucket of water on it, and the broth inside will be squeezed out instantly.
Lin Xu took a small spoon and put the squeezed broth back into the pressure cooker.
It would be a pity to throw away this soup, so why not put it together with the remaining tendons and put it in a container to make tendon jelly?
This delicacy rich in collagen and low in calories is a favorite among ladies and should not be wasted.
After doing this, carefully send the water tank to the cold storage, and then seal the mouth of the tank to prevent dust from entering.
As for those tendons, stir them with powder, pour them into a slightly deeper tray, and also put them in a cold storage to cool and solidify.
"Boss, what should I do with the beef soup?"
Che Zai asked curiously.
It would be a pity if it was spilled, but I don’t know what to do if I keep it.
Lin Xu said:
"Save it for making beef soup tomorrow morning."
"Okay, I'll tell the morning shift master tomorrow later."
The next morning.
Lin Xu got up at six o'clock as usual.
After secretly kissing the sleeping baby, he came to the store and went to the cold storage first.
The tendon jelly has been prepared. When poured out, it is translucent and looks a bit like jelly. The tendons inside are so shadowy that they cannot be seen clearly.
However, it should be clearly visible when cut into slices.
Then he opened the white cloth that sealed the mouth of the jar, took out the bucket that had been inside for the night, and then used force to pull out the wooden lid that had been completely solidified in the skin jelly.
The stacks of beef inside are clearly visible.
The chef from the morning shift turned the small water tank upside down on a tray, and then carefully moved it away, and the beautiful stack of beef appeared in front of him.
"Oh, this is so beautiful."
"Boss, your craftsmanship is really amazing!"
The morning shift chef and several helpers couldn't help but praise them.
Lin Xu smiled and took a slicing knife and slowly made a cut on the surface of the beef.
A piece of meat with tendons falling down.
The ruddy color of the cuts in the meat slices makes the beef stack look even better.
He used a kitchen knife to cut the entire top of the beef stack, and then the appearance of the beef stack was truly revealed.
The red meat pieces are stacked together, and the gaps are filled with translucent tendons, which looks very beautiful.
Pinch a piece and put it in your mouth.
The aroma that has been completely absorbed into the meat slowly escapes, whetting one's appetite.
Chew it, the meat is dense, chewy, and rich in meat aroma. You can taste a light braised aroma in the aftertaste. Instead of suppressing the meat flavor, it makes the meat aroma even more wonderful.
Delicious!
It is indeed a famous snack in North China.
This texture, this taste...it's just like sesame sesame pancakes.
Thinking of this, Lin Xu immediately took the basin and started kneading the noodles, preparing to use the store's oven to make some sesame sesame biscuits for fun, and also let the employees try this snack.
Pour half a bowl of all-purpose flour into a bowl, use warm water to dissolve the yeast powder and sugar, then use this bowl of water to stir the flour in the bowl into dough, and then knead it into a dough of moderate softness and hardness.
Use twice as much baking powder as usual to steam steamed buns, so that the biscuits will expand quickly when baked.
After the dough is kneaded, cover it with a lid and start to rise.
Taking advantage of this time, he set up a wok, put a handful of salt and a small handful of Sichuan peppercorns into the pot, turned on low heat to roast the Sichuan peppercorns until fragrant, and then used a rolling pin to crush all the salt and Sichuan peppercorns.
Add the peppercorns and salt to the sesame seed cake core and it’s ready.
Shaobing must have a core, and it must be salty, so it will be more delicious when eaten.
After preparing the pepper and salt, take out the dough in the basin and knead it again.
There is no need to wait for the dough to open in this step, because the amount of baking powder is relatively large. Wait until the cake dough is made before baking it, so that the sesame cakes will expand more properly and taste softer and more delicious.
After kneading once, roll the dough into a long strip. First, break the dough into walnut-sized dough balls, leaving a small piece of dough.
Then start making the cake base.
First flatten the dough with your hands, then grab a thumb-sized piece of dough from the dough, dip it in vegetable oil, and then dip it in pepper salt.
Then put it on the flattened dough ball, use the dough ball to completely wrap the small ball of dough dipped in grease, pepper and salt, seal it after wrapping, and roll it into a ball again.
After wrapping each dough ball, bring half a bowl of water and half a bowl of white sesame seeds, and then prepare the baking tray in the oven.
Pick up two dough balls, dip them in water in the bowl, and then dip them in sesame seeds.
Place the sesame-covered sides of the two pasta pieces together, squeeze them gently, and re-extrude the spherical dough pieces into the shape of a pancake.
After squeezing, the sesame seeds will stick more firmly and the cake base is ready.
Place the biscuits on the baking sheet at intervals. When the baking sheet is full, put the baking sheet into the closed oven and let it airtightly rise.
Well, the temperature in the kitchen is too high, and if the cake is directly exposed to the air, it will easily lose water and cause the surface to dry out, so put it in the oven, which can maintain the moisture of the cake to the maximum extent.
Forty minutes later, the dough had nearly doubled in size.
The biscuits that were originally far apart are now almost close to each other.
Lin Xu took the cake out of the oven and preheated the oven.
After preheating, put the baking sheet in and start baking.
"The temperature has been set and will automatically turn off in fifteen minutes. Remember to take out the baking pan if I don't come back."
"Okay boss, I remember."
Lin Xu washed his hands and returned home. At this moment, Baby Shen was still sleeping soundly, with saliva even flowing out of the corner of his mouth.
"Baby, get up and eat."
"I don't...I want to sleep...don't disturb me..."
"I made sesame sesame pancakes, but if I got up late, they would be gone."
The sweet baby on the bed, who was so sleepy that he couldn't even open his eyes, suddenly sat up:
"Seobing? Where are the sesame seeds?"
This greedy look is comparable to Dundun smelling meat.
Lin Xu leaned on the bed and said while looking for clothes for the girl:
"It's roasting in the oven. You can eat last night's beef. I'll put the beef in hot biscuits later. It was my favorite delicacy in junior high school."
Baby Shen woke up completely and said while getting dressed:
"Go and squeeze out the toothpaste for me. I have to go to the store to eat sesame cakes with meat. I can wake Yan Bao up and seduce her. You woke me up. I always feel unbalanced if I don't wake up anyone."
Lin Xu: "..."
What evil did my aunt do in her last life?
I was tortured repeatedly by you.
But it’s okay to call her over. I was craving beef yesterday, so I just had it with sesame seed pancakes this morning.
After washing up, he and Shen Baobao returned to the store.
Just entered the kitchen, it's time for the oven.
Wearing insulated gloves, as soon as you opened the oven, a strong aroma of pasta wafted out from inside.
These biscuits are not big in size and are just right for eating with meat.
After pouring the sesame cakes into the tray, start baking the next pan.
"Wow, it smells so good!"
After smelling the aroma of sesame cakes, Baby Shen truly woke up.
Seeing the golden sesame cakes and the big pile of beef, the girl immediately came over and started taking pictures with her mobile phone.
After taking the photo, she sent it to Chen Yan, then took the sesame seed cake with beef from Lin Xu and took a bite happily:
"Wow, this tastes great, doesn't it?"
Crispy and soft sesame seed cakes sandwiched with thin slices of beef, one bite and the sleepiness of getting up in the morning is instantly gone.
"Xubao, I want to eat five... no... I want to eat eight!"
"Okay, I'll make as many for you as you want."
Lin Xu also picked one for himself, and after tasting it, he thought it was really good.
Although this is not the domineering big sesame cake on the street, it tastes good, especially the beef slices inside. It’s really enjoyable to take a big bite!
Baby Shen quickly ate up a small sesame seed cake.
She took out her mobile phone and said vaguely:
"This is too delicious. No, I have to withdraw the picture. I'll tell Yan Bao when I'm full first, so she doesn't have to fight with me..."
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