This Huai delicacy trumps ham
Wang Hao/Photo
In Lianshui County, Huai'an City, there is a folk song circulating: "The Mid-Autumn Festival is getting colder and colder, and the high ditches are tied with hooves to taste." The purchase of customers is like a cloud, but the production is not available. ”
A view of Gaogou Town, Lianshui County, Wang Hao/Photo
Huai'an has superior water and soil climatic conditions, is one of the main pig producing areas in Jiangsu Province, and there are many local delicacies with pork as raw materials, and Lianshui Bundled Hooves is one of them.
During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, the fumigation master Zheng Yunfu brothers of Gaogou Town, Lianshui County, refined the bundled hooves with lean meat of pig's trotters and made wine dishes for guests, which were sought after by diners, and Lianshui bundled hooves have been passed down from generation to generation and are famous.
Lianshui bundles are generally vacuum packed, open bags cut into thin slices and can be eaten, which can be used as a cold dish on the table. Bundle hooves color sauce red, salty and sweet, tender and delicious, meat but not greasy, nutritious, long chewing raw jin. Bundle hooves can also be used to fry rice, stir-fry, shabu-shabu, etc., with a variety of methods and unique flavors, which can be described as three delicious meals and four o'clock delicacies.
Lianshui bundled hooves are made of lean pork trotters and dried pig casings as the main ingredients, with more than 20 kinds of spices such as cinnamon, cloves and star anise, which are made by more than 10 processes such as high temperature cooking and sterilization.
Jiangsu Kangqiang Food is a well-known hoof production and processing enterprise in Lianshui County. In the production workshop of Kang Qiang's hoof binding, a burst of sauce flavor came to the nose. Through the transparent glass, you can clearly see the various raw materials used in the production process of the hoof and the entire production process of the hoof. Selection, cutting, salting, bundling, steaming... A delicious and seductive bundle of water bundles of hooves, just like this, appeared in front of the eyes.
Lianshui bundled hooves are known as "Chinese ham", and have won the national high-quality health care product "Golden Crane Cup" award, China time-honored brand, Jiangsu Province famous products, Yangtze River Delta famous food and other honors, is Huaiyang famous dish, Huai'an intangible cultural heritage, Huaiwei millennium "the first batch of authorized agricultural products.
Bundle hoof products are dazzling Wang Hao/Photo
In recent years, under the guidance of the municipal and county agricultural and rural departments, Lianshui Bundled Hooves have also cooperated with Universities and scientific research institutes such as Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu University, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai'an Academy of Agricultural Sciences, etc., integrated advanced technologies such as nitrate-free bundle hooves, and developed new varieties such as spicy bundle hooves, beef bundle hooves, crystal bundle hooves, pig skin bundle hooves and small package slice bundle hooves.
With the help of online sales such as Tmall and JD.com, supermarkets, franchise stores, exhibition sales, and through channels such as online celebrity live streaming with goods, the popularity and reputation of Lianshui Bundle hooves have been continuously improved, the market is getting wider and wider, and the products are exported to Large and Medium-sized cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, and Guangzhou.
Kang Qiang and Yuanlu two hoof production enterprises Wang Hao/Photo
At present, Lianshui County has formed a food industry pattern of "winemaking (liquor) + traditional industries (bundled hooves, chicken cakes)", of which the production of bundled hooves is concentrated in Gaogou Town, with Kangqiang, Yuanlu, Guohongyuan, Guyuefang and other bundled hoof production enterprises and more than 100 family workshops, driving about 2,000 employees.
Huai Xiaobu