Chapter 552: Longevity Soup
The soup not only reduces the bitterness of the tea, but also removes the spicy taste of the soup, and can sober up and refresh, appetize and strengthen the spleen. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info to all the concubines, everyone said it was good; Dedicated to Emperor Huizong, this merry emperor is even more energetic and can't help but be overjoyed.
Emperor Huizong asked the little eunuch why this soup, the little eunuch had an idea, called it "longevity soup", Emperor Huizong was overjoyed, gave the little eunuch the national surname, that is, the surname Zhao, and sealed this soup as "Zhao's longevity soup". This soup is said to be cold in winter, summer to avoid the heat, Emperor Huizong had been issued in the barracks, the sergeants are difficult to invade after the hundred evils, all diseases are not born, the reputation of a while rose, and therefore became a good prescription in the army.
Later, coinciding with the "Jingkang Difficulty", the Jin soldiers broke through Kaifeng City, abducted the two emperors of Huizong and Qinzong, and in the chaos, the little eunuch escaped from the cage and fled south with the fleeing crowd. The little eunuch lived in the palace for a long time, his body was weak, coupled with the disaster of prison and the difficulty of breaking the country, the road was cold, his heart was frightened, and he did not go far, he was seriously ill, and when he fled to the dock of Xiaoyao Town, it was late, he could no longer support it, and fainted in front of a tea stove on the dock. The next morning, Wang Laohan, who was selling tea, found a man lying in front of the stove, and quickly dragged him to the house for treatment.
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Wang Laohan took in the little eunuch and married his daughter to the little eunuch as his wife. In order to make a living, the little eunuch turned the tea stall into a breakfast stall, and he changed the "longevity soup", and the people in the palace liked the soup for support, and the people needed porridge to fill it, and sold it to merchants in all directions. Later, the little eunuch removed the medicine in the soup, and added fried black sesame seeds, peanut kernels, etc., to make a sweet soup, which became popular in Xiaoyao local oil tea.
One day, a northern merchant brought a bottle of pepper to eat the little eunuch's big meat porridge, Wang Laohan accidentally knocked over the pepper bottle that the guest put on the side of the porridge bucket, and the little eunuch inadvertently stirred the pepper into the pot.
The northern merchant asked the little eunuch what kind of soup this is, what kind of porridge should be, the little eunuch smelled the fragrance of this soup, scooped out a taste, the spicy taste was mellow, there were both the spicy taste of dry ginger and good ginger, and the spicy taste of pepper and long pepper, as well as the spicy taste of cinnamon, Shannai, etc., all kinds of different spicy tastes were combined, fully mobilized the taste organs, and the feeling was very different, so the little eunuch called it "Hu spicy soup".
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The so-called Hu spicy soup does not refer to the pepper and chili pepper in the soup, in fact, the authentic Hu spicy soup only uses pepper without chili, and the meaning of Hu spicy soup is "random and spicy", the kind of spicy that all kinds of spicy flavors add together, and other explanations are either attached to the meeting or hope for the text. After several years of folk processing and development, a kind of Hu spicy soup that suits the taste of northerners, has a mellow spicy taste and fragrant soup was born in Xiaoyao Town.
Hu spicy soup is not only delicious in color, but also has the medical value of disease prevention and fitness, and is economical, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, you can consume and enjoy, so it is generally welcomed by consumers.
Another theory is that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to please the emperor, Yan Song, the elder of the pavilion, got a pair of spices to help him live and prolong his life from a Taoist priest and presented it to the emperor to cook soup and drink it. The soup is so delicious that it is so delicious that it is named "Imperial Soup". After the death of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial chef Zhao Ji fled to Xiaoyao Town with this medicine, Xiaoyao Town, Xihua County, Zhoukou City, and received the grace of Xiaoyao Hu, so he taught this recipe to Hu. Therefore, the soup is spicy and delicious, and is operated by the Hu family, and then slowly called "Xiaoyao Town Hu Spicy Soup" by the local people.
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Nanyang Hu spicy soup absorbs the advantages of Hu spicy soup from all over the world, combined with the taste of Nanyang people, and forms the local characteristics of Nanyang. Nanyang Hu spicy soup is also made of beef and mutton soup to enhance the umami and pepper to enhance the spicy taste. Drink Nanyang Hu spicy soup, the first sip, plain, the second sip, the fragrance and slight hemp slowly attacked, three mouthfuls and four mouthfuls, spicy and fresh fragrance rushed out of the mouth, a bowl of drinking, spicy and enjoyable, fresh and delicious, endless aftertaste, I really want to have another bowl.
The Nanyang Hu spicy soup is more simple and bright in the choice of raw materials: cooked mutton or beef and gluten are usually required, and thousands of tofu are discarded and replaced with daylily and fungus. Nanyang Hu spicy soup, thick and palatable, spicy and fragrant. It is also the best in Hu spicy soup.
There are two kinds of meat and vegetarian soup, and Ruzhou Hu spicy soup is better vegetarian. The bamboo bucket of the pot is more than one meter high, thick at both ends and thin in the middle, much like the waist drum of the Korean people standing up. The two-inch-wide pot is stacked with fried golden shredded eggs, dark green bean segments, bright red chili shreds, shredded tofu with yellow outside and white inside, and shredded green onions in the middle of the white...... Against the backdrop of steaming heat, it is simply a superb watercolor painting.
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Use the best pepper for the soup, and be sure to use Ruzhou's flexible and smooth vermicelli. Scoop a bowl of hot soup, pinch a few pinches of vegetables, and preferably put a small spoonful of vinegar to form the Hu spicy soup in Ruzhou. When drinking Hu spicy soup, with some fried dough sticks and fried buns, this is a very authentic Ruzhou breakfast.
Lushan Hu Spicy Soup is located in Lushan County, Guluyang. Its spicy soup also nurtures the sons and daughters of Lushan, and also has a long history, its ingredients are selected beef, mutton slices, shredded tofu, fried dried tofu cut into fine shreds, flour skin, flour thickening, green onions, pepper, other condiments and so on. The difference between Lushan Hu spicy soup and other places is that the vermicelli is added, and the Q strength of the taste is added while eating the porridge, making it more exquisite!
In Lushan County, there are mainly two old city gates and several steel mill intersections, which are very authentic. If there are people who don't like to eat any food, but no Lushan people say that they don't like to eat Lushan Hu spicy soup. Not to mention the county seat, every village and town in Lushan County will sell Hu spicy soup in the morning. or mobile cart spots, or fixed stalls. For those Lushan people who have the opportunity to eat Hu spicy soup, more than 80% of them will eat Hu spicy soup for breakfast. It can be said that it is loved by all ages. Hu spicy soup plays a pivotal role in the daily life of the sons and daughters of Lushan.
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The history of Zhoukou Hu Spicy Soup can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty at the earliest, when the officials of the early Dynasty were very fond of drinking a bowl of Jin Lao Si Jin Ji paste spicy soup while waiting for the last dynasty, so as to invigorate the blood and drive away the cold, eye-catching and refreshing. Officials drink this soup, and the people love it even more, so the business of Jin Laosi Jin Ji paste spicy soup on Bianjing Royal Street is booming. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to prevent the Japanese army from moving south, the Kuomintang blew up the mouth of the Yellow River Garden in Zhengzhou, and the Yellow River drained for thousands of miles, displacing the affected people.
Jin Henglong, Jin Henglong, the heirs of Jin Laosi, and Jin Hengyi, also came to Zhoukou from Kaifeng with the fleeing crowd, settled here, and made a living by operating the spicy soup.