Jinan roast duck has a long history and a long history. According to research, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were many shops specializing in roast duck in Jinan. The most famous of these are the DeheLou in Wanzi scroll during the Qing Dynasty and the Wenhelou Roast Duck Shop in the West Lane of the county during the Guangxu Period. Their roasted duck, ruddy color, crispy skin, tender meat, mellow taste, fat but not greasy, deeply loved by dignitaries and people. There is also a plot description of Jinan roast duck sitting on the table in "The Journey of the Old Remnant". After the founding of New China, the masters of Dehe Lou and Wenhe Lou were invited to major hotels in Beijing for many times to teach the preparation method of roast duck, and made roast duck for state leaders and foreign friends many times, which was highly affirmed and praised.
For various reasons, the prosperity of Jinan roast duck began to decline in the late 1950s, but the traditional roast duck technique in Jinan's Jufengde Restaurant has been used and developed. Jufengde roast duck to adapt to the new era of people's needs for nutrition, taste, without losing the traditional roast duck classic charm at the same time, improve the production technology, create a lot of new cooking duck products, won the love of the majority of guests, so that Jufengde roast duck perennial guests full of friends, long-lasting prosperity.
The reason why Jinan roast duck has a long reputation is inseparable from its unique roast duck making process and practical value. The raw material used in Jinan roast duck is the raw, weighing about two kilograms, artificially fed and fertilized Weishan Lake male hemp duck, with a plump body, tender flesh and thick subcutaneous fat. The production process of roast duck is very complex and elaborate, and the roast duck embryo after initial processing needs to go through multiple processes such as pumping, chambering, washing, hooking, scalding, hanging sugar, sun skin, irrigation, roasting, etc., which lasts from 1 day to 3 days (varies with the season) to be made. And insist on baking with straw or dry branches without odor. Since it is roasted in the whole duck oven, it avoids the loss of nutrients, so it has a very high nutritional value. When eating roast duck, it is often accompanied by Zhangqiu scallions, garlic, cucumber strips, lotus leaf cakes, radish strips, these foods are eaten together with roast duck, which can not only play a role in balancing acid and alkali, but also the vitamin C and dietary fiber in these foods have the function of reducing cholesterol, increasing the lytic activity of fiber proteins and helping digestion.
After a hundred years of accumulation, Jinan roast duck has formed the characteristics of fine selection, exquisite heat and sufficient ingredients, delicious taste, good social reputation, and high edible value and economic value.