Sesame oil contains strong feelings
"Shen Nong's Materia Medica" says that sesame is mainly used to treat "deficiency in injuries, nourishing the five internal organs, replenishing energy, growing muscles, and replenishing the essence and marrow."
"Baopuzi": Resistant to rheumatism and replenishes aging.
"Compendium of Materia Medica": When taking oil from flax, the white one is the best, and the black one is the best when taking it.
"Compendium of Materia Medica": Taking flax makes the intestines slippery, and those whose essence is not stable should not eat it.
Tao Hongjing, an ancient health expert, once said: Among the eight grains, this is the only one that is good.
In ancient China, sesame has always been regarded as a food that prolongs life. Su Dongpo, the great poet of the Song Dynasty, also believed that sesame can strengthen the body and resist aging. Steamed flax and peeled Poria If you eat less white honey as flour, your strength will not decline over time, and all diseases will go away. This is the key to longevity.
When I was a child, during the season when "sesame flowers were blooming in high proportions", several children and I often ran into the sesame fields and picked out the white and pink sesame flowers. Pick it up and put it in your mouth, slowly savoring its faint sweet aroma.
Once, a little bee stung a little friend’s sesame flower inside his little mouth, which scared him so much that he never dared to eat the sesame flower again. It is true that "once bitten by a snake, I will be afraid of straw ropes for ten years"!
In winter, I like to cook a pot on the ground. First I light a handful of wheat straw, then I grab some sesame sticks, break them off and stuff them into the furnace. I roast my frozen little hands and my body is also warm. It's slowly getting warmer.
Sesame leaf and bean noodles are especially suitable for winter! The soup is thick and warm. Use a spoonful of chili oil and mix well to ensure you are warm after eating.
Sesame sauce is indispensable for hot dry noodles, cold noodles, spicy hotpot, and hot pot. The sesame sauce is thicker, fragrant but not greasy.
Finely ground sesame oil is amber in color and has a strong fragrance. It is suitable for cold dishes, soups, hot and cold noodles, etc. But you can't use it for cooking, as the sesame oil will taste bitter after being heated.
Migrant workers often bring one or two pots of small ground sesame oil to give to others or to eat themselves. Dispel nostalgia with your sense of taste.
You can apply sesame oil on dry lips in the crisp autumn season and frostbitten hands in winter. The effect is even better than ointment.
In our hometown, there are people selling loose sesame chips and sesame cakes in winter. Thin sesame slices made of sugar syrup, no more than 2mm thick, filled with sesame seeds! It tastes crispy and sweet!
The sesame cake is much thicker! There are peanuts in it, which makes it hard to eat. I like to eat thin sesame chips, but if I eat too much, it feels a bit sweet.
"The Seventh Grade Sesame Official" sung by Chou Niu Decao, a famous actor from Henan Province, is quite funny. The wealth in the movie Alibaba's "Open Sesame" is not as much as that of Mr. Jack Ma now, right? Lao Ma really knows how to name his empire!
Our small town has the reputation of "the first of hundreds of valleys in the Central Plains and the king of sesame seeds"! It is famous at home and abroad because of its high output and high oil yield.
In the early 1980s, "white sesame" was designated as an export inspection-free product by the Ministry of Foreign Trade. But the people have learned to cheat! I mixed the bricks, tiles, earth and garbage into sesame bags and sent them abroad. Later, they refused the goods. It was not worth the loss!
In 2010, when I returned to my hometown for work, I applied for a job as a general worker in a grease company in the West Industrial Zone.
At that time, we were "a brick of the revolution, moved wherever it is needed"!
Workers who have just entered the factory go to sift sesame seeds, sift them for a day and then leave. The large screening machine produced serious noise pollution. When I had lunch, I walked out of the workshop feeling gray. Even though I was wearing a mask, my nostrils were still full of dust!
Later we couldn’t recruit anyone, so we took turns sifting sesame seeds for a few days and roasting sesame seeds for a few days. Everyone likes to fry sesame seeds, at least it’s clean! The noise is low. The fried black and white sesame seeds are all sent to the "Cody" and "Missing" Tangyuan Company. Later, I was transferred to oil extraction, and then I was stabilized.
There are only five people in the oil pressing workshop, and four people work in two shifts. The Northeastern man invited by the chairman, "Brother Li", is the squad leader. He is about fifty years old, short, slightly fat, with a flat head, and speaks kindly. We all call him "Brother Li"! My sister-in-law is a warehouse manager.
Later we got to know each other, and during holidays, he often drove his sister-in-law and me to travel. We went to the Yang Jingyu Memorial Hall, the former residence of Xu Shiyou in Xin County, the New Fourth Army Jiangbei Headquarters, etc. We often drink together and talk about the past.
The couple lived in the factory. They called me once and asked me to go to their dormitory after work and sit for a while. I went to take a look after work. My sister-in-law was making dumplings and Brother Li was preparing side dishes! I patted a cucumber, poured some peanuts on a plate, and took out a long and slender dried fish from the drawer! He told me that it was a friend who came to see the fish he had brought! Produced in the northern waters of North Korea, it is called "pollen". Very delicious! The meat is delicious, tender and chewy! I can’t forget it, but it’s a pity it’s hard to taste!
Brother Li went to South Korea to work for more than ten years before he earned his first pot of gold! I bought a house near the sea in Yantai. In 2012, they went back to Yantai to celebrate the New Year and gave me a pack of clam meat as a gift when they came back. I was reluctant to eat it, so I kept it in the refrigerator and ate it several times!
Brother Li often tells me how he got through the hard times. After recuperating from the army, he worked as an apprentice in a factory. After getting married, his sister-in-law was sick and had to have infusions at the clinic. He rode a tricycle to solicit customers, and when he earned enough money, he went to the clinic to pay. There was also a night market selling sea fish and so on. I couldn't support my family with just a few dozen yuan a month, so I had to go to South Korea to work.
Brother Li also told me a true story, the story of Cinderella marrying into a wealthy family. It was his friend's daughter who had been sponsoring her boyfriend during college. Her boyfriend invited her to meet his parents, and she learned that her boyfriend's father was a deputy minister of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Four years to win love!
Since their daughter and son-in-law are working in Korea, they have been going to Korea for a few years now! We are still in touch via WeChat.
At that time, Master Gao took a colleague on the night shift. Brother Li looked at the oil cakes he squeezed and shook his head. The cakes were either black or white. He asked Master Gao what happened. As for the matter, he said that it would be ready in twenty minutes based on the time.
Later, Brother Li asked me to fry the sesame seeds. He told me that after more than ten minutes, I should pinch the sesame seeds and crush them to check the color. When it is brownish red, it will be out of the pot. After mastering this method, the oil cakes I pressed looked like fried sesame seeds in a pot.
Wherever you work, you must have professionalism! Later, Brother Li called me and asked me to go to South Korea to extract oil. I didn’t speak Korean and was in love with my family, so I didn’t go.
I was also studying next to Brother Li when he was repairing the machine. Looking at the bent wrench he had modified, I asked him with a smile: "Brother Li! You can apply for a patent! This is an invention!"
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He said: "The screws inside are difficult to remove! I just thought about how to remove them easily and came up with improvements."
"Machines are just like people! They also need to take air in and out! They can also catch fevers and colds!" He said with a smile and was busy.
I took these words to heart.
After working for a year, a friend called me several times and asked me to go back to the county hotel to work. More money, less work and close to home! I had no choice but to resign and return to the city, starting a new job and a new experience.
Everyone has advantages and disadvantages. As long as you have a pair of eyes that discover beauty, absorb the shining aspects of others, and constantly improve yourself, you can have unique charm!
Brothers may not be friends, but friends are often like brothers.
The spring breeze is not as good as yours! Brother Li and sister-in-law, how are you doing in your hometown? Be happy and healthy! Drops of sesame oil are fragrant, please fly across the sea! Sending my brother’s blessings and thoughts.