Baoding, known as Shanggu, Baozhou, Baofu in ancient times, because the city is like a boot, also known as the boot city. Baoding and Beijing are born together, and baoding's name is taken from "defending the capital and stabilizing the world", and has always been the capital of Gyeonggi and the "southern gate of the capital". Baoding is the birthplace of China's ninth largest cuisine", "Ji Cuisine", from the grain tools and cooked pottery in the cultural relics of Baoding dynasty, as well as the Lord of the Shang Dynasty, the yokan soup of the Zhongshan Kingdom at that time, etc., all confirm the history of Baoding cuisine. Baoding's traditional snacks and dishes include donkey meat grilled white yunzhang buns, boiled chicken, etc., now let's take a look at Baoding's special cuisine!
1. Caohe donkey meat is burned
The birthplace of the Caohe donkey meat fire is Xushui Caohe Town. According to legend, during the Song Dynasty, there were two gangs at the Caohe Wharf, the Cao Gang and the Salt Gang. The Cao gang is engaged in transporting grain, and the salt gang is engaged in transporting salt. In order to dominate the docks, the two sides often made big moves, and finally ended with a big victory over the Cao Gang. The donkeys captured by the Cao gang could not handle the salt gang, so they slaughtered and stewed, and then ate the meat in a local fire, which was even more delicious. Since then, the local custom of eating donkey meat has been formed, and gradually explored a set of exquisite cooking donkey meat processing secrets. Donkey meat is a low-fat, high-protein food with high levels of calcium, phosphorus and iron. As people's incomes increase, the pace of life accelerates, and the concept of consumption changes, the demand for nutritious fast food, especially donkey meat fire, is increasing.
2. Cover the white meat with fire
White meat cover fire, is one of the local famous foods in Baoding, Hebei Province, originated in the late Qing Dynasty, in the "Chinese Snacks" published by China Travel Service, it is striking. It is also one of the main famous foods of Baoding's famous building Yichun Building. Its production process is exquisite, selecting fresh pork, repeatedly rinsing and boiling, and cutting the cooked meat slices into thin slices, and then with a fire torn into a cloud of fire, and repeatedly pouring it with an over-the-top soup. Its eating method pays attention to three eating six flavors, that is, with white meat covered with fire with different accessories, you can eat different flavors, which is really evocative. Its nutritional value is worth mentioning, it is rich in protein, but also does not contain too much fat, white meat cover fire is really a relief and healthy food.
3. Jumping in the chicken
Chicken Bungee is a local dish with full color and flavor, and is one of the local famous foods in Baoding, Hebei Province. This dish is based on Baiyangdian specialty green shrimp and domestic chicks as the main ingredients, Baoding chef in the early Qing Dynasty boldly new, two fresh at the same time, both the fresh aroma of chicken, but also the crisp and tender shrimp, but also a sauce fragrance to leave lips and teeth.
4. Quyang black girl dumplings
Black girl dumplings are famous in China for their traditional imperial diet, which has been passed down for more than 300 years. Its founding producer was Su Qiaosheng, a court master during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty. The reason why black girl dumplings are popular is because its dumpling filling is made of fresh meat with more than a dozen flavors of precious Chinese herbs, fragrant but not greasy, fresh but not light, as soon as it arrives in the mouth, it feels fragrant and has health care effects.
5. Li Hongzhang stew
Li Hongzhang stew is also called Li Hongzhang chop or Li Hongzhang chowder, it is one of the more classic famous dishes in Hebei Province, and the cuisine belongs to the directly subordinate official cuisine. This dish is made with fine sea cucumber, shark fin, deer tendon, beef whip and other cabbage, tofu, wide flour, plus Baoding's locust sweet noodle sauce. Sea cucumber, fish mackerel, squid, magnolia slices, rotten bamboo, sliced cooked ham; pork belly, chicken, dried scallops with shallot knots, ginger slices, shaojiu steamed into the flavor, sliced; cooked white chicken, cooked ham shredded; fish meat is made on the top of the mushroom, glued to the dried scallops steamed; dried scallop balls, various raw materials and spices are boiled into chicken soup, steamed for 5 minutes, decanted out of the original soup, poured on the chowder.
6. Baoding six-flavored cooked meat
Baoding Liuwei Zhai cooked meat production technology is the intangible cultural heritage of Baoding City. The cooked meat products sold by Liuwei Zhai are famous for their fine production, variety of colors and unique flavors. The name of Liuwei Zhai is exquisite, and the products of Liuwei Zhai are known for their six flavors of salty, sweet, spicy, fragrant, tender and crispy, and Liuwei Zhai is named after it.
7. Baoding hand breaks the intestine
The people of Dingzhou only called it intestines, but when it spread to other parts of the country, it was renamed hand-broken intestines. Dingzhou's intestines are crimson and shiny with a seductive fragrance, which looks better than ordinary sausages. With a gentle break with your hand, the intestines break in response, and the casing cracks with a crunchy soft sound, biting in the mouth, crisp but not hard, slightly elastic, adding a little bit of chewing pleasure. The color of the intestinal flesh is transparent and red, and the flesh is fat and tender. Take a bite, the rich aroma, the delicate feeling occupies the mouth, full and thick, can not help but be satisfied, indulged in it.
8. He Jia baked cake
He Jia Baked Cake is a local snack in Baoding, and the sesame burnt cake in the He Jia Baked Cake is baked over an open fire, so from time to time there will be blackened sesame seeds on the crust of the burnt cake. The freshly cooked cake is hot and the tongue is hot in the mouth, so it takes a while to relieve the hunger. After a little cooling, carefully taste the baked cake, the sesame seeds are crisp, the layers of the noodles are soft, just the outside is burnt and tender, and the hot air fills your mouth with the aroma of sesame sauce.
9. Acacia pickles
Huaimao pickle is a side dish marinated with Baoding's unique sweet noodle sauce. Baoding has a folk proverb: "Baoding Province's three treasures, iron balls, noodle sauce, spring immortality." "Noodle sauce refers to the sweet noodle sauce produced by sauce manufacturers such as Baoding Huaimao Sauce Garden. Huaimao Sauce Garden selects Baoding to produce lettuce, radish, lettuce, cucumber, ground dew, water chestnut, garlic, spring age, pepper and walnut kernels, peanut rice and almonds, etc., and marinates them with sweet noodle sauce to make pickles. Huaimao pickles adopt traditional craftsmanship, natural fermentation of lactic acid, long production cycle, and exquisite materials. In 2005, Huaimao Pickle was awarded the honorary title of "China Time-honored Brand" by the Ministry of Commerce. Huaimao pickles are not only sold well throughout the country, but also sold abroad, and have won the praise of users at home and abroad.
10. The six flavor bones of the government
When Li Hongzhang was entertaining General Grant, who had just left the presidency of the United States, he cooked a dish of Chinese and Western fusion - Guanfu Liuwei Bone, which first selected the beef ribs favored by Westerners from the raw materials, and according to the traditional soup set of soups and slow simmering methods of the Directly Subordinate Official's Government, considering the characteristics of Westerners who are not good at chopsticks, the knife was changed to a rectangular block that was easy to eat with a knife and fork. Served with black pepper sauce, yellow mustard sauce, sweet and spicy sauce and other dipping sauces suitable for Western tastes. On top of the feast, the tender and fragrant beef ribs are deeply loved by Grant and he appreciates the chef's care.
11. White Luck Chapter Bun
Bai Yunzhang bun is filled with fresh beef and seasonal vegetables, and the bun skin is made in a certain proportion of hair noodles and hot noodles. Bai Yunzhang bun skin thin edge narrow, large filling, oil, bell shape, the skin can see the filling, the bun is shaken, into meatballs of the bun filling in the inside, eat up the mouth flowing oil, rich flavor.
12. Anguo horseshoe baked cake
Horseshoe baked cake, named because of its shape like a horseshoe, its origin is due to the Anguo Pharmaceutical Market, which is known as the "world's first medicine market". The lid is crisp but not greasy, the heart is soft but not sticky, smooth and palatable, the bottom of the cake is cooked but not burnt, crisp and not paste. Freshly baked hot cake sandwich with bone meat, sausage, donkey meat, pork head meat, stew and other cooked food, bite a bite of crispy inside, full of sesame aroma and meat aroma, after eating, the teeth and cheeks remain fragrant, there are "ten steps to smell the incense, three days not tired, cool not hard" is called.
13. Stir-fry the crab
Stir-fried crab is a classic traditional dish in Hebei Province, which belongs to the official cuisine of Zhili Province. The name of this dish is stir-fried crab. As the name suggests, this dish does not see crab when eating crab, fresh and slightly sour, rich aroma, non-crab does have a crab taste. Stir-fried crab. Zeng Guofan, the governor of Zhili, was greatly appreciated after eating, and as a special dish for the feast of the Zhili Official's Mansion, whenever the banquet was important, he recommended this dish to everyone and was widely praised. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, Baoding famous chef Ren Yunzhang was good at making this dish, and on this basis, he gradually improved from color and taste to the point of being fake and real.
14. Pastries from Daoxiangcun
Baoding Daoxiangcun Food Co., Ltd. was founded in 1917, mainly producing Beijing-Cantonese Chinese and Western pastries, Lantern, mooncakes, poultry products, preserved fruit juices, etc., with more than 300 varieties. The product style belongs to the characteristics of southern taste, sweet and salty. The product is refreshing in the mouth and increases appetite after eating. Baoding DaoxiangCun, a century-old shop, takes "health, nutrition, refinement and tradition" as its corporate purpose, which not only inherits the classics, but also keeps pace with the times. Mooncakes, peach pastries and other pastries produced by Baoding Daoxiang Village were rated as "Chinese Famous Cakes" and "Chinese Famous Spots" by the China Baked Food Sugar Products Industry Association.
15: Wrap the elbows in a pot
Pot fried elbow is a traditional dish in the Baoding area of Hebei Province. Tender on the outside and tender on the inside, crispy and delicious, fragrant but not greasy, easy to carry. If eaten with green onions and noodle sauce, it is even more flavorful.
16. Gaobeidian tofu shredded
Gaobeidian tofu shredded is a delicious and famous dish, belonging to the Ji cuisine family. This dish is made from the progress of making tofu. Since the Han Dynasty, people around Gaobeidian have begun to make and eat tofu. With the rise of Buddhism, buddhist and Taoist people are popular for them to eat vegetarian food. As a result, soy products such as tofu slices, dried tofu, tofu muscle, and tofu shreds also came into being. Among the many soy products, shredded tofu is made of fine and unique flavor with its rich flavor, milky yellow color, flexible strands, and has become a local flavor food.
17. Baoding brine boiled chicken
Baoding boiled chicken is known for fine processing, the time to cook chicken depends on the age of the chicken, the chicks cook for 1 hour, more than 6 months to cook for 1.5 hours, and the next year the chicken is cooked for more than 2 hours. The "directly attached brine boiled chicken" that comes out of the brine does not break the skin, does not debonate, tastes mellow, the meat is tender, does not plug the teeth, does not greasy, tastes fresh repeatedly, and eats for a long time.
18. Beef cover cake
Beef cover cake, Hebei Baoding special snack, began in the Qing Dynasty, according to legend, the Jiaqing Emperor passed through Baoding in the south, smelled the strange fragrance and vibrated his spirit, asked around: "What is this incense?" Left and right replied: "Beef cover cake." The prefect was about to offer the beef cover cake, Jiaqing was very happy, and after eating it, he praised: "color, aroma and taste" three absolute. Since then, beef hood cake has become a delicacy for successive prefects to entertain guests from all walks of life.