Cixi drank this soup for 10 years, knew the ingredients and ingredients, and killed the imperial chef, ready to become the favorite of northerners
Now many old shops will play the palace secret recipe, the emperor's royal sign to show the preciousness of the family's items, in fact, there is a rotten street snack in the north in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi also belonged to the court royal use, and Cixi ate for 10 years, do you know what it is?
The eating habits of the Qing court were two meals a day, two wine meals, breakfast at nine o'clock in the morning, and lunch at one o'clock in the afternoon. During Cixi's reign, due to her bad stomach, the habit of drinking and drinking in the Qing Dynasty was changed to eat snacks, rice porridge, and thick soup, and Cixi's favorite food was candied fruit and preserved fruits. Soup Cixi has always been based on delicious and dull, those big fish and big meat greasy soup Cixi did not like at all, so Cixi's soup food is mainly light. Once, cixi had a stomachache in the autumn, and a cook who wanted to beg for a reward made a bowl of sheep soup for Cixi, which violated cixi's two taboos, first, Cixi belonged to sheep and generally did not eat mutton, and second, Cixi drank soup and did not like greasy broth.
When Cixi saw that the cook was serving a bowl of mutton soup, she wanted to blame him, but as soon as she smelled that the mutton soup was delicious, she took a sip, and Cixi, who was accustomed to seafood soup, accidentally drank this grounded thing and felt that it was extremely delicious, and quickly drank the bowl of lamb soup. The soup of this bowl of mutton soup is white, sprinkled with a layer of chili peppers and green onions, which not only removes the fishy smell of the lamb but also degreass it. This bowl of soup grabbed Cixi's stomach, and every time Cixi had stomach pains in the autumn, she would let the cook make a bowl of lamb soup and drink it for ten years until Cixi knew the ingredients for this bowl of lamb soup.
Strange to say, Cixi only drank soup, and had never asked about the ingredients for this bowl of soup in ten years. Ten years later, the chef who made the sheep soup was going to retire back to his hometown, so he told his apprentice the ingredients for this bowl of mutton soup, and let his apprentice continue to make it for Cixi to drink in the future. In the autumn of this year, Cixi drank the lamb soup served by the chef's apprentice for the first time, and felt that the taste had not changed, and it was exactly the same as the chef's cooking, so Cixi asked curiously, what are the ingredients of this lamb soup, who makes the same taste, how can it be so delicious. Who knew that this disciple had bluntly said the recipe of the sheep soup, Cixi felt very disgusted after hearing the recipe, and the anger rose from her heart, ordering the execution of the chef and the apprentice, and never drank this bowl of sheep soup again.
In fact, the sheep soup that Cixi drank for ten years was not sheep soup, but haggis soup, cixi was very disgusted with eating the internal organs of animals, thinking that how could someone so honorable eat the offal of animals, and the internal organs of animals in the imperial dining room were directly thrown away. Now haggis soup is very popular in the north, every winter haggis soup stall will be lined up with people, in the cold winter warm drink a bowl of mutton soup, get strong.
Did you know that the haggis soup you drink in winter was originally used by the court?