Yichun Building was opened in 1908, located in the ancient city of Baoding downtown West Street Road south, opposite the door is "Huaimao Pickle", at that time Yichun Building was only a small shop with a construction area of only 80 square meters.
The name of the "shop chief" is Zhang Luobing, the first generation of the white meat cover fire, and the deputy shop chief named Song Deshan is the second generation inheritor of the white meat cover fire, nicknamed "Song Yi Knife". The nickname "Song Yi Dao" mainly comes from his sale of meat "one knife accurate". But in fact, the real famous is not to sell meat, mainly because his hood fire is welcomed by the broad masses of working people, is an affordable mass meal, farmers in the three miles and five townships and people who go to the city to sell agricultural products and even small merchants and hawkers in the city have to taste his hood fire, so he is also famous and prosperous.
And because of the fine variety of meat foods he made, he won the applause of the Qing Dynasty. During the Xuantong period (1909), Puyi's uncle Pu Xinyu wrote a plaque for the font number of Yichun Lou (Three Characters of Yichun Lou).
"The food is natural, and the clever hands are even good."
The original Yichun Building was the first of the top ten restaurants before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the main meat pot, lavender chess pieces baked cake.
"At that time, Yichun Lou had to leave a lot of broth left every day to cook meat, all of which were broths configured with secret recipes, and there were a lot of minced meat inside, everyone felt that it was a pity to pour it out like this, so they used this soup cover to burn for the guys to eat, I didn't expect that everyone liked it very much," Li Linggen said, "Because it is mainly made of soup that has cooked pork head meat, so at the beginning it was called pork head meat pot cover fire." "When General Feng Yuxiang lived in Baoding as a child, his family was not rich, and he usually wanted to relieve his hunger and eat a pork head meat pot and burn it. Until later, General Feng Yuxiang garrisoned the Baoding Sili Camp after his death, but still did not change this habit, often bringing officers to eat pig's head meat pot and burn it.
Later, feeling that the name was indecent, General Feng Yuxiang suggested that Zhang Luobing change it to a white meat cover and burn it. At that time, the pig head meat pot was already famous for burning, and Zhang Luobing was naturally worried that the name change would affect the business, so he was hesitant. Feng Yuxiang then promised Zhang Luobing: "If the name change affects your business, you can send it to the military camp, and I can give it to the soldiers to eat." So the pig's head meat pot was renamed white meat cover fire.
White meat cover fire, do it very exquisitely, to choose a certain part of the pork, live water washed, put into boiling water to cook, its heat is very strong, fat meat to be crisp and not raw, lean meat to be rotten and not chai, cooking to go to foam to remove oil, add more than a dozen spices, simmer over low heat. It tastes fragrant but not greasy, light but not light.
Preparation Method:
Ingredients: Fresh pork, peppercorns, large ingredients, shallots, ginger, garlic, cloves, cinnamon, white root, sanai, cumin and salt. Preparation:
1． Fresh pork is selected as a meat cover, and fresh pork must be front sandwich or positive rib.
2． First cut the meat into cubes, soak it in cold water, rinse it several times, wash the blood, scrape the pig skin with a knife, and then get off the pot.
3． First bring the water to a boil over high heat, remove the foam, then add peppercorns, large ingredients, shallots, ginger, garlic, cloves, cinnamon, baizhi, sanai, cumin and salt, boil the soup to a milky white, and then slowly cook.
4． The fire is crisp and tender on the outside, tearing open and layering, tearing the fire into cloud slices, cutting the cooked soft meat into thin slices, cutting the green onion into segments, putting it in a bowl, and pouring the fire several times with the soup of the open pot, which must be covered thoroughly, and a small amount of soup can be filled