After living in Ezhou, after 708090, when I was a child, I must have eaten the delicacy of roasting chicken fetus on the stove, that is, the kind of live chicks that were completely hatched by the hen but did not come out of the shell, wrapped in straw and thrown into the earth stove fire pond for about ten minutes, and then took out some salt and directly ate the food.
The taste of the chicken fetus is very delicious, and the deliciousness of the meat is unmatched by other chickens. Its meat is not only delicious, but also as tender as the pufferfish, peeling off the eggshell, biting the chicken that has not yet hatched, the tender meat and the smooth juice dance in your mouth, it is really intoxicating to think. Well, drooling.
Not only that, the chicken fetus in the folk is also a big tonic, with beauty, health care and blood replenishment and other effects, its nutritional components compared with ordinary eggs, live beads contain 8 kinds of amino acids needed by the human body and 2 kinds of amino acids necessary for infants and young children, promote the development of infants and young children's taurine increased by nearly 20 times (20 times does not represent a lot of total), promote infant bone growth and prevent the calcium required for osteoporosis in the elderly increased by more than 6 times, and other nutrients are significantly higher than ordinary eggs. The fat content that is unfavorable to the human body has dropped by 50%, and the cholesterol is only one-fifth of the original, which is an ideal green food supplement.
Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Chicken embryos and eggs have the function of treating headaches, migraines, head fever and limb madness. "If the weak child can eat it regularly, it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, and thus plays the role of strengthening the body."
However, I remember when I was a child, my grandmother told me that the traditional chicken fetus was made of fresh eggs a long time ago, and then with the change of living conditions, it slowly evolved into a fresh chicken baby.
Whether alive or dead, I ate both of them when I was a child, and I personally felt that the taste was not much different. However, it is worth mentioning that the chicken baby fetus is not only in modern times, and there are historical records that in the Ming and Qing dynasties have long been popular in the Huguang generation, of which the custom of eating Fujian", the custom of eating Fujian "phoenix eggs" also has a relationship with the Qianlong Emperor.
It is said that one year the Qianlong Emperor went down to Jiangnan and passed through the Huguang area and his entourage dispersed, and he walked alone hungry and tired, and stopped at a peasant house on the side of the road to beg for something to fill his hunger, and the peasant woman's family was so poor that she had nothing else to cook a few eggs that were hatching in the chicken nest and boiled them for him to eat. Unexpectedly, the more Qianlong ate, the more delicious it became, and named it "Phoenix Egg".
Chicken baby fetus is hatched, but did not hatch the chicken eggs, Ezhou chicken and other places commonly known as the hair egg, Wang egg is different, Ezhou area of the chicken is for live fetus, can hatch the chicken, and the hair egg for stillbirth can not hatch the chick. The embryo inside the egg has developed, peeling off the shell, you can see the prototype of the chicken, the fine fluff, and even the chicken bones. Use naturally hatched live chicken fetuses. Stillborn must not be eaten.
And the way of eating in Ezhou is also different from other locations, the Ezhou generation is put into the earth stove pond to burn, other places, such as the Fujian generation is boiled with wine, or baked with salt.
More importantly, the ingredients used in the Ezhou area are all in the incubation process of hens, while other locations are hatched by scientific machines, and some are even dead eggs and hairy chicks.
Unfortunately, with the better living conditions, people are accustomed to going to the market to buy ready-made, resulting in many ancient food culture in Ezhou has withered away, now not to mention the chicken cubs, even the chickens are very few, let alone the chickens hatched by the hens.