Edge invented sesame oil.

The historical process of sesame oil (also known as sesame oil)

Who invented sesame oil is impossible to verify, except that it existed in the Three Kingdoms period 1800 years ago. During the Jin Dynasty, diet was widely used in China.

Sesame oil is called "sesame oil" because it is taken from sesame. Sesame oil, which is baked from sesame seeds, often has a strong aromatic smell and is called "sesame oil" in northern China. In southern China, people call it "sesame oil". In ancient China, sesame was also called flax and fat sesame, so people called sesame oil sesame oil and fat sesame oil. In Japan and South Korea, people also call it "linseed oil". In order to show their love for sesame and sesame oil, people call sesame "the queen of oil crops" and sesame oil "the king of vegetable oil".

During the Three Kingdoms period, the working people in China mastered the technology of sesame oil production. According to Chen Shou's "History of the Three Kingdoms". Wei Zhi "and" Sun Quan went to Hefei New Town, and the cage was full ... Then he broke pine into torches and poured sesame oil. From the upper hand, the thief attacked the county. " At that time, sesame oil was made from sesame seeds by stone mortar or wood pressing.

Sesame oil will be on people's table in the future. The text in Beitang Book Tide quoted the Natural History of Jin Dynasty as saying: "There is a method of douchi abroad, in which beans are soaked in bitter wine, which is extremely violent and dry, and then steamed with sesame oil, and repeated violent three times before stopping." This is the earliest record of sesame oil used in diet, which has been 1600 years.

In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, sesame oil was widely used in catering, and in the Tang and Song Dynasties, sesame oil was more widely used as the best edible vegetable oil.

Sesame oil is also widely used in medicine, including in Compendium of Materia Medica, and many medical prescriptions are still in use today. Shi Zhen said: Black sesame oil is the most important medicine, followed by white sesame oil.

With the gradual improvement of production technology, the gradual improvement of people's living standards and the gradual development of the nutritional value of sesame oil, the production technology and products of sesame oil are increasingly rich, such as industrial sesame oil, medicinal sesame oil, light sesame oil, black sesame oil and health sesame oil. Ordinary edible sesame oil is also different, such as roasted and fried sesame oil, which is slightly less cooked. Stir-fried with low fire, usually used for cold salad, soup or stuffing. Sesame oil production has also experienced the original process of human extrusion, water substitution and power machine extrusion.

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Sesame oil can be divided into two categories according to its flavor characteristics:

One is sesame oil, which has a strong or obvious fragrance of sesame oil. The special ingredients in sesame are processed by high-temperature frying technology to produce substances with special fragrance, which makes sesame oil have a unique fragrance and is different from other edible vegetable oils, so it is called sesame oil. Sesame oil can be divided into small ground sesame oil and machine-made sesame oil according to processing technology.

Small ground sesame oil refers to the water substitution process, which has a stronger and purer fragrance. It has been more than 400 years in China to process ground sesame oil by water substitution method. In addition to domestic sales, products are also exported to Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asian countries. Except for a few areas such as * * * and Qinghai, other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have production. The traditional production process is: selecting materials, cleaning, frying seeds, grinding, stirring, vibrating, precipitating, skimming and packaging.

Speaking of sesame oil, there is a origin:

According to Wei County Records, "Cui Shi's family moved from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province to Cuijiazhuang, Shandong Province in the early Ming Dynasty." At that time, Cui Shi's three brothers moved here and named the village "Cuijiazhuang" after their own surnames. They mainly make a living by planting sorghum, millet, sesame, beans, vegetables, kiln burning and fishing. Boss Cui Shi has the ability to grow vegetables and melons, so his descendants moved to Shouguang rice field to grow vegetables. Cui Shi knows how to fish. Later, his descendants went fishing in the North Sea along the banks of the Dayu River and settled in the Hanting Yangtze area of Wei County. Only the second child, Cui Shi, is the cleverest and most scheming. He can not only plant land, but also burn kilns. He can also make stone mortar, stone mill and other tools to grind rice, flour and grinding bean curd. People all praise him as a skillful craftsman. At that time, the sorghum, millet, sesame and beans planted by Cui Shi's second child were all used as food. After the sesame seeds are harvested, stir-fry them in a pot, pound them into powder with a mortar or grind them into paste with a small stone mill, and eat them directly.

One day at lunch, when he diluted the sesame paste in the bowl with boiling water and prepared to add it to the dish, he accidentally found a lot of oil beads floating in the bowl while stirring with chopsticks. He picked up the bowl and waved it, and the oil beads gathered together. With the hot air, a special fragrance came to his face. He dipped his chopsticks in some oil beads and tasted them. They were especially fragrant, which was not found in other oils.

So, like discovering the new world, he began to think and ponder: wouldn't the food taste better if he added more sesame paste and oil to the boiling water? He began to do experiments: fry the sesame seeds he planted and harvested in a pot, grind the fried sesame seeds into paste with a small stone mill he made, put the sesame paste into a big clay pot he made, pour a proper amount of boiling water into the pot, and keep stirring with a wooden pole. As expected, a thick layer of oil floated out of the pot, emitting a fragrance. He put the wooden pole on the dining table, put the bottom of the clay pot on the wooden pole, and shook the clay pot with his hand. The more oil is produced, the thicker the oil layer is ... He skimmed the oil with a wooden spoon, put it in a clay pot, picked it up and sold it in the market for people to taste. People asked him in surprise, "what kind of oil is this?" Why does it smell so good? We have never seen or eaten such fragrant oil! " Cui Shi, the second child, said with joy and a little pride, "This is sesame oil that I just successfully tested and ground with sesame seeds. It tastes good in rice! " After hearing what he said, people rushed to snap up his sesame oil. Because Cui Shi's second child is a skillful craftsman who is good at thinking and diligent in doing things, no matter what happens, he is always good at pondering and studying. He found another key problem in the grinding of sesame oil: the aroma of sesame oil has a great relationship with the baking temperature of sesame. The baking and frying of sesame seeds is less heated, and the fragrance and color of the oil are slightly light; When sesame seeds are roasted and fried, the oil is blackened. Sesame is baked and fried at a moderate temperature, and the oil is not only fragrant, but also beautiful in color. Since then, Cui Shi's second child has been studying, pondering and improving the grinding process in the grinding process of sesame oil, and the ground sesame oil has become more and more fragrant and more popular with people.

In this way, he found that the news that ground sesame oil had a strong and special fragrance spread quickly, from one word to ten words and then to the palace. When the emperor learned of this, he ordered an imperial envoy to send the sesame oil of Cui Shi's second child to the palace. I tasted it, boasted assiduously, and repeatedly said, "Sweet! That's great. That's great. It's rare for Cuijiazhuang in Wei County to grind such fragrant oil! Rare! Very rare! Just call this oil "sesame oil". " Since then, the sesame oil ground by Cui Shi's second child has been listed as a tribute to the court, specially for the emperor to enjoy. People renamed this sesame oil as the good name given by the emperor-"sesame oil", and because this sesame oil was ground with a small stone mill, people called it "small ground sesame oil", which is the origin of "small ground sesame oil".

Later, people nicknamed Cui Shi "Cui Youxiang", who was the inventor and founder of "Little Mill Oil"-the ancestor of Little Mill Oil! Over the years, people have gradually forgotten his real name, only knowing that his name is "Cui". The process of "grinding sesame oil" invented by him has been passed down from generation to generation and passed on to future generations.

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