Speaking of dried pig bile, one of the first idioms that comes to mind is: lie down and taste bile. Want to come to the Yue King to practice the bitterness after the defeat of the war, to the firewood and grass sleeper, and often lick the bitter guts. Since it is called "bitter bile", the taste is certainly not sweet. I don't know how the Yue King spent those days. There is a small episode here, and the "Chronicle of History" only says that the Yue King's practice of "sitting and lying down is to lean on the gall, and eating and drinking is also tasting the gall." "It didn't say its sleeping salary. This idiom is also thanks to the great literary hero Su Shi, who imagined it with his clever mind - since he tasted the guts, wouldn't it be more of a match to come to a sleeping salary? Thus, the idiom of "lying down and tasting guts" came out.
It cannot be said that The Wuping people are smart, and they have made a special delicacy that is bitter to think about, which really should be given a big thumbs up. How many years does Wuping pig bile have? More than a hundred years. It is a famous specialty created by the Hakka people in Wuping County, Fujian Province. Originally, this was not called "dried pig bile", but "pig bile liver". Because there are pig bile and pork liver in the raw materials. However, it was misread by most people as "dried pig bile", so it was called "dried pig bile" by false rumors. The reputation is out, and it is not easy to change.
Speaking of Wuping pig bile, there is still a relationship with Grandpa Mao. Wuping is an old revolutionary area, the central Soviet district county. Grandpa Mao went deep among the masses in Wuping, visited the poor and the poor, and preached revolutionary principles. At one point, his throat was swollen and his voice was hoarse. The masses were distressed by Grandpa Mao, and while sending sweet potato porridge to Grandpa Mao, they also sent dried pork bile, a specialty of Wuping, which was detoxified and detoxified. This is a dietary therapy, and the effect is remarkable. Grandpa Mao's sore throat was hoarse and quietly healed. It is said that hard work has contributed to the revolution.
How did Wuping dried pork bile become delicious with bitterness and become one of the eight dry pigs in Min Xi? First of all, the selection of materials is strict, and it must be no more than 12 hours of fresh pork liver and pig bile. The second is rich in ingredients: there are white wine, sugar, cinnamon, star anise, cumin, sand kernel, cloves, licorice, lemongrass, mountain seed, mountain nai, fragrant root, ginger, wood ginger, mountain spicy, wild mountain chrysanthemum, gongding, pepper and so on. Look, look at the ingredients are a bit dazzling, right? heft? Confidentiality, of course.
Where is the preservation of Wuping pig bile? Certainly not a refrigerator, and there certainly wasn't a refrigerator in Wuping County more than a hundred years ago, although there was a refrigerator in 1925. It is stored in a barn from April to October every year. Didn't expect that? The grain pile is dried and protected from light, and fermented and matured during preservation. After October, stack the code in the warehouse for preservation. The characteristics of Wuping dried pork bile are the same as wine, and the older they are, the more fragrant they are. The smell of dried pig bile stored for 5 years must be that of a dog plucking a duck - croaking.
Speaking of which, friends are salivating, right? Don't worry, the pig bile eating method is very exquisite, or it is really the eight precepts of the pig to eat ginseng fruit, swallowing it still does not know what the taste. Can't be eaten. You can only taste it slowly. Remove the amount of dried pork bile and put it in a small dish - look, you know the amount, right? Add a little sugar and white wine, steam for a quarter of an hour, and you're done. Cut into very thin slices, or if you go down with chopsticks, there will be no one else to eat. Coupled with cooked winter shoot slices plus onions and garlic, the steamed water should not be wasted, that can be called the original juice, poured on it, eat it.
flavor? Bitter with fresh, fresh with sour, sour with salty... How does an advertising slogan say? "The taste of first love." Hey hey hey.