Prince tofu making skills

Hubei
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Prince tofu is a food made by handcrafts passed down for thousands of years in Taizi Town, Yangxin County, using Taizi Mountain spring water. Its production skills contain rich traditional cultural values. Prince tofu has registered the "Taizimiao" brand trademark, and its series of products include tofu, white dried tofu, black dried tofu, fragrant dried tofu, stinky dried tofu, smoked dried tofu, spicy dried tofu, bean curd skin, bean silk, bean curd sticks, thousand sheets, vegetarian chicken and many other varieties. White tofu is "tender and easy to use, old but not dry", can be boiled, pressed, fried, roasted, deep-fried, frozen, and rotten. It tastes fresh when boiled, strong when fried, delicious when roasted, fragrant when fried, soft when frozen, and moderately rotten. It is very memorable; the dried tofu has excellent color, aroma and taste, and can be cooked as a cold dish or tasted as a snack; tofu oil is the essence extracted during the tofu processing process, and its edible product is the best and has the highest nutritional value. Prince tofu has a unique production process, made in a handmade workshop, and wrapped in small pieces. Its production process includes soaking beans, grinding beans, filtering residue, boiling slurry, extracting soybean oil, adding slurry, filtering water, packing, and pressing water. While tofu made in other places mostly uses wooden frames to press blocks and then cuts them into blocks, Taizi tofu is packed and formed piece by piece, so it has the advantages of white and tender appearance, firm and not easy to break, and pure taste. The fame of Taizi tofu is not only due to the unique traditional production technology of Taizi people, but also due to Taizi's mountain spring water. The mountain spring water here contains a variety of trace elements and minerals needed by the human body. Tofu made with this water not only maintains the original beneficial ingredients, but also can synthesize various amino acids necessary for the human body. The unique local water quality determines the taste and quality of tofu. At the same time, no preservatives are used during production, making it a pure green food. Because the locals have mastered a set of ancestral production techniques, the tofu produced is white, tender, delicate and refreshing. It is famous for its whiteness, tenderness, softness and pure taste. Merchants from Yangxin, Daye, Huangshi, Wuhan and other markets come to buy it every New Year and festival. Prince tofu can be eaten regularly to improve health and has become an ideal dish for people's daily life and entertaining friends. The dried tofu and fermented bean curd processed from it have a unique flavor and are unforgettable.

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