In the past, the old Beijingers spread such a saying, known as Li Chuang Wang 'Li Zicheng' love to eat stewed sheep's head, for many years is inseparable from this mouth, a day without eating it feels uncomfortable, so when I first came to Beijing City, I specially brought a stewed sheep's head master from my hometown, this chef is also surnamed Li, and Li Zicheng is also related, it is said that they are all in a village
After the Qing army entered the customs, Li Chuangwang left, but this Master Li stayed in beijing city, taking the stubble to stew the head of the sheep, in fact, old Beijing used to have stewed sheep's head this food, but when stewing, you must put yellow sauce in the pot, pour soy sauce, stew out of the sheep's head are colored, old Beijing people know, called sauce sheep's head
And this master Li from Suide came to the sheep's head is stewed with white soup, there is no color at all, so the old Beijingers call it white water sheep's head, now if you want to eat white water sheep's head, you can buy it with Beijing to find a halal restaurant, all year round, from continuous goods, but a hundred years ago, people who eat this bowl of rice still have unwritten rules
Selling white water sheep's head can only be done after the autumn every year, selling autumn, winter and spring in Beijing, three seasons, before entering the summer, the day is hot, can not continue to sell, who dares to sneak on the street to do business before the autumn, sell white water sheep's head, this must let the peers know, even if the rules are broken, it can be said that the festival is broken
After that, there will be no way to mix with this circle, selling white water sheep's head must step on the point of LiQiu, there are two meanings, first of all, the old Beijing that sells all kinds of food people, there are no refrigeration tools at home, the food made can only be made and sold, can not stay overnight, turn around and really eat everyone bad, smashing is their own signboard
Then there is the white water sheep's head this way to eat food, from a certain level, with beer a meaning, pay attention to cold eating, the temperature of the meat in the zero four or five degrees, the taste is the best, even if it is three or nine days, there is ice on the meat, it does not matter, because the lower the temperature, the more refreshing the sheep's head meat is eaten in the mouth, the more tendons
Especially the meat skin that place, the more smacking touch the more flavorful, on the contrary, the three volt days sell sheep's head meat, bad is not bad is not important, the key is that the sun is sunny, the temperature is high, this meat will flow soup oil, this kind of sheep's head meat into the mouth taste is not good, not crisp at all, mainly greasy, fishy taste is also very heavy
So the old Beijing selling white water sheep head this line later set a rule, only after the autumn every year, the autumn wind rises, can start to do business, summer these months, can not sell sheep's head, but also do something else, in the early years, the day is cool, after the autumn, Beijing city sells white water sheep's head those small traders
It is three or four o'clock in the afternoon, only to push the cart, in the hutong, while walking while shouting, during the day with the streets of Beijing can not see the sale of white water sheep's head, restaurants are not in the inside, people do not sell this road to eat, why do you have to step on this point to go out? Old Beijingers know it
In the past, the old Beijingers did not have the so-called nightlife, every household ate and slept very early at night, selling white water sheep's head at three or four o'clock in the afternoon to catch up with the Beijing people's meals, the old masters earned a day of chewing grain outside, and how much they ate at night were willing to come to two bites, which could both live blood and relieve fatigue
Sitting in the courtyard of the hutong listening to the shouting 'liver, sheep's head meat' foreign friends may be curious, buying sheep's head meat is not the object, why do you still have liver? You know, this thing is suide passed on, they eat haggis, pot inside, sheep hooves, sheep water everything, white water sheep head into beijing city, sell sheep head is also the same variety of business
In addition to the sheep's head, the piggyback also sells all kinds of bits and pieces on the sheep's body, the sheep liver is the most valuable part in it, more valuable than the sheep's head meat, the old Beijing people call this white soup stewed out of the lamb liver 'sand liver' means to eat into the mouth taste double good, especially sand, people who do business pay attention to the meat can not be buried in the bottom
Valuable things must be placed on the open side, so the old Beijing selling white water sheep's head is generally to first pay attention to the 'liver' and then drink the sheep's head, the old Beijingers have to let the child take the money when they listen to the bark, run to the hutong to buy some sheep's head meat back, when buying, you have to tell people, where to go, the sheep's head part is different, eat into the mouth, the taste is also very different
For example, the most common part, the old Beijing called 'face' this place is the most tough, there is a chewing head, the tongue of the sheep's mouth is tender, there are crisp bones in the middle, chewing up creaking with a sound, there are many Beijingers eat white water sheep's head, specially instructed to sell mutton, let people button down the two eyeballs, this place is cooked after the jelly is almost the same
Many Beijingers are good at this mouth, it is said that the people who do this business are similar to the people who spread pancakes today, they all have to prepare a large glass cover, which is full of cooked sheep's heads, haggis, and then there is the knife and board that cuts the meat, and the Beijingers eat the white water sheep's head, in the final analysis, eating his meat cutting knife, the meat slices must be cut thin, the thinner the more decent
When the white water sheep's head is stewed in old Beijing, it is sprinkled with salt in the water, and then put aside some cumin, peppercorns, which in itself do not have much taste, so when eating, it must be accompanied by pepper and salt to enhance the taste, this pepper salt and can only be cooked salt, can not be raw, cooked salt is to buy the salt on the market, mixed with peppercorns and stir-fry in an iron pot
Fry until the salt grains are yellow, out of the fragrance is into, and then rolled into pieces, the finer the better, Beijing people call this salt fine salt, in the past selling white water sheep's head can not be separated from fine salt, use up, you can not do this deal, so the old Beijingers also have such a playful saying, the two sell sheep's head meat home, there is no 'joke' borrowed a harmonic sound
This means that the relationship between these two people is general, the friendship is not deep, that is, the noodles are nodded, can not be joked, now eating, if you feel that the taste is not enough, want to sprinkle some salt noodles in the rice bowl with special guys, old Beijing does not have these things, the seller of sheep's head makes the horn, fine salt from the thick horn of the head into it, take the cloth to seal it tightly
The thin one is drilling a few small eyes, cutting into thin slices, spreading on the lotus leaves, lifting the horn with one hand, the big head rushing up, the small head facing down, the wrist swinging back and forth, the pepper and salt come down, selling white water sheep's head, in all the small traders every day is the first stall, the sheep's head meat is almost sold, and the Beijingers have finished eating dinner
After eating, you have to slip and sew, this time period, there are vendors who sell melon seeds, heart carrots, frozen persimmons, a race a roar, lively to the extreme, in short, the white boiled sheep's head in old Beijing, Beijing people eat not only the taste, but also a heritage, a feeling, this is what everyone often says to keep a taste, inherit the spirit of Beijing!