In Xi'an, the beef and mutton are a must-say local delicacy. Beef and mutton are often eaten in many places, and the cooked beef and mutton in Xi'an are called "wax beef and mutton".
"Wax" means a processing process, the lunar month of December is called wax moon, in ancient winter will be pickled and dried or soaked and salted, and then smoked meat is called bacon. The wax in Xi'an's wax beef and mutton is more of a meaning of pickling, that is, the beef and mutton made of marinated meat are further made as baht and mutton.
In Xi'an, the most famous lamb is the "Old Boy's Family of Renzhipo". 辇 is a kind of vehicle tool used by the ancient emperor and empress to travel. Legend has it that in 1900 AD, Empress Dowager Cixi traveled west to Xi'an, and yuyuan traveled to the mouth of Beiguangji Street, just when the old boy's family was cooking lamb, so he smelled the incense and stopped, and after tasting the lamb of the old boy's family, he was full of praise.
At that time, a section of the road from Guangji Street to the City God Temple became a slope, Cixi saw that this place was a slow slope, and stopped in front of the slope, and ordered the soldier Shangshu Zhao Shuqiao's division to write six big characters in the wei handwriting of the Criminal Court of the Criminal Court, "The Old Boy's Home of the Zhi Slope", and then made a gold signboard and hung it on the head of the old boy's shop, and since then the beef and mutton of the "Old Boy's Family of the Old Boy's Family" has been famous in the ancient capital and is famous in China.
Lao Tongjia's bacon is very exquisite from the selection of meat, marinated, hot, boiled meat, etc. When curing meat, the lamb skin noodles are folded relatively folded and discharged in a large vat, add well water, sprinkle with green salt, glauber's salt and other spices for marinating. Ten days in winter, three or five days in summer.
Cooking meat is also exquisite, first pour the secret old brine soup into the pot (more than 100 years of old soup), add an equal amount of water, put in the secret seasoning package, boil with high heat and then add green salt, put the marinated lamb into the soup with heavy weights, and then simmer for 3 to 4 hours on low heat.
The made bacon is pink because of the effect of glauber's salt, and the characteristics of the lamb are interlaced with fat and lean meat, so the bacon looks red and white after being cut. The layer of mutton oil is interspersed between the lean meats, and when eaten in the mouth, it is crisp and unusual, the flavor is strong, and it will not be as chai as the bacon, nor as tough as the Sichuan bacon.
Nowadays, Lao Tong Jia, Ren Zhi Slope and Lao Tong Jia Zhi Slope have become a food business card of the ancient city of Xi'an. Although the descendants of the two old children's families once fought against Bo Gongtang and the Supreme People's Court for a trademark infringement dispute, this did not affect the status of the lamb in the hearts of foodies.
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