Put the sieve on the hole where the iron pan has been removed, and then turn the beans in the sieve from time to time until the skin of the beans shrinks and the fragrance overflows, which is considered as good baking. Pour in the bamboo basket to cool, and then bake the second sieve?
Smoked green beans will become soft and stale after a period of time if they are not properly preserved. In the past, the ingenious way to preserve the family heirloom was to put the smoked green beans in a bag sewn with gauze, put them in a retort with lime at the bottom and seal the mouth tightly. After a year and a half, the smoked beans are still as good as new and will not go bad. It's just that the water is completely absorbed by the lime and the bite rattles. But when it is used to make tea, the taste of beans after soaking in water has no effect. Now, instead of lime, smoked green beans are put in the quick-freezing room of the refrigerator. Even if it is brought in a few months later, it still tastes the same as when it was screened at room temperature for a few hours.
If a rare guest suddenly comes to his hometown and can't serve a cup of smoked bean tea, the host will often apologize for his rudeness and say, "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't make you smoked bean tea." "Some sophisticated families will also mix fried white sesame seeds, pickled old skin pieces and diced carrots in smoked green beans. The tea in the cup is rich in color and mixed with five flavors, which is eye-catching and throat-moistening, appetizing and digestion-promoting.
Smoked green beans are eaten dry and have an endless aftertaste. Put a few in your mouth, chew carefully, and slowly taste the faint sweetness of salty silk. The pleasure of enjoying delicious food is similar to that of Sue taking spiced beans out of her pocket and chewing them at any time. Mix smoked green beans with fresh soy sauce to cook porridge, and the taste will never lose pickles, fermented bean curd, pork floss and peanuts.
Most women in my hometown bake smoked green beans, but I always feel that my grandmother baked the best smoked green beans I have ever eaten.
Grandma baked beans and was very particular about the choice of materials. If the edamame is too tender, the baked beans are not chewy; If you are too old, you will chew too hard. Grandma often chooses eight whole bean knots. The peeled edamame is neither tender nor old. Baked beans are similar to jasper, which is not salty or light in taste and moderate in hardness. Baking beans is a patient job. It often takes two or three hours to bake a sieve of beans. If you are careless, the beans will be out of focus and rusty. But grandma has never seen such a phenomenon, so neighbors often look for grandma to check.
When I was about ten years old, my grandmother started the business of smoked green beans to supplement her family. Every morning when gastrodia elata dawns, grandma puts the roasted smoked green beans in a basket in Hangzhou, covers them with towels and sells them in the vegetable market. Sold out, buy edamame the next day to continue business. All this must be done in secret, because it is speculation and the "tail of capitalism". Once found, it will be cut off! Finally, once, Grandma mobilized the whole family to peel the smoked green beans that had been baked for a day and a night, and the inspectors threw them into the city river under the Dingding Bridge without mercy.
Things have changed. A few years later, I opened a smoked green bean shop in the town and sold it to Suzhou and Shanghai after the acquisition. Although my grandmother's life improved at this time, my uncle became a technician in a cooperative factory, my aunt became a land worker, and my cousin opened a daily necessities wholesale department, but my grandmother, who is nearly seventy years old, has been baking smoked green beans enthusiastically and doing her own small business happily and freely all day.
One autumn, when some people who performed in the Municipal Art Fair were invited to visit a certain country, smoked green beans were given to each other as a specialty of their hometown. After the other party ate it, they even called it "delicious! Delicious! " . I went home to visit my grandmother and told her about it. Grandma, who is nearly eighty years old, asked excitedly, "Jane?" Jane? "It seems that she baked smoked green beans.
It's time for smoked green beans to go on the market again For many years, at this time, grandma always picked up a pack of smoked green beans and sent someone to deliver it to me. After dinner, grab a handful and put it in a transparent glass, sprinkle some Longjing or white tablets, rush into boiling water, and let the beans float in the tea like jade. Drinking smoked bean tea, watching TV and chatting are beautiful nights.
It's been fifteen years since grandma left me.