The history of Fuling oil mash began more than 200 years ago.
According to the records of Fuling city, Fuling oil mash was founded in the fourth year of Jiaqing 1799, with a history of more than 200 years.
In Fuling Dictionary, the origin of oil mash is recorded: during the Spring Festival in A.D. 1799, a rich gentleman gave birth to a new wife, and relatives and friends came to congratulate him. Because there were too many people, the cook cooked eggs with the mash of his wife's confinement, and then added some dumplings for the guests to eat. The guests were full of praise after eating, and Fuling City followed suit.
"In the early years, oil mash was a symbol of love," Yuan told reporters. "Boys went to girls' houses for blind dates. If the parents agree to this marriage, a bowl of fried eggs will be cooked early the next morning and sent to the bedside of the future son-in-law. If you don't eat it, it means that the woman's parents don't agree. "
When local residents make oil mash, every process is extremely particular. When selecting materials, glutinous rice should be screened by rice sieve to remove chaff, broken rice and barnyard grass to make its particles full. The cooking temperature is suitable, neither old nor tender, and the yeast must be made by famous local artists, and the fermentation should be neither early nor late. The mash produced in this way looks like white cotton, which is lumpy but not scattered and has a strong aroma. Then, fine-grained walnuts, sesame seeds, crispy peanuts, winter slices, jujube paste, orange cakes and other auxiliary materials are mashed, fried with the pig's side until the water is basically lost, and then put into an urn, which is naturally sealed and will not rot for years. In addition to the catering industry, local residents usually make oil mash before the Spring Festival and give it as a gift to relatives and friends to taste each other. The level of making oil mash is also one of the folk topic standards to measure whether housewives are capable. Of course, foreign guests only know its taste, not its meaning.