Chinese cuisine has a long history and blossoms. Speaking of the treasures of the four famous chickens, Texas Grilled Chicken, it can be said that no one knows and no one knows. Let's not talk about eating, even if you look at it, it will also make you salivate, - the golden and red chicken body is crystal clear, the mouth feathers are like a lying phoenix, people are reluctant to be alarmed, and the fragrant delicacy is refreshing, making the population tongue full of food and appetite. CCTV's "Talking about the Canal" program praised: "When it comes to Texas people always talk about grilled chicken, this kind of famous food with a long history and unique taste, it is very famous, it is the pride of Texas ... , the mouth-watering color and shape can be seen, the authentic fragrance and taste, but only the mouth to taste." No wonder that three hundred years ago, after tasting the world's delicious Kangxi Emperor, Jing also blurted out praise: "Zhen is a miracle of Shenzhou."
Chu's grilled chicken culture
Yucheng is a famous historical and cultural city, with a long history and rich culture, and is the domain of The Great Yuzhi Water, the City of Grilled Chicken, the Hometown of Brewing, and one of the birthplaces of Longshan culture. In the Zhou Dynasty, it was enfeoffed as Zhu Guo, and during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, it was renamed Zhu'a, and in the first year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty (742 AD), in order to commemorate the merits of Dayu Zhishui, it was renamed Yucheng.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Yucheng was the only way to enter and exit the capital in the southern and eastern provinces, and the exchange of officials and merchants was very frequent, and the commercial economy was extremely active. At that time, Yucheng County was mainly concentrated in the old city, which was divided into four streets, east, west, south, and north, of which South Street and North Street were mainly residential areas, East Street was the county ya and other administrative districts, and West Street was a commercial and trade area. Therefore, West Street is the most prosperous, and the City God Temple Market gathers merchants and crowds every day. "From the south to the north, there are many restaurants and inns like forests." The Chu family courtyard is located in the middle of west street in the prime area, Shunzhi fifteen years (1658), Chu Anjun in the west street to create Chu Ji roast chicken shop, on the basis of the traditional roast chicken making technology to innovate, first with a martial fire to boil, and then with a simmer slow stew, and finally hook the pot, the whole production process took about two hours (four hours). After a long time of cooking, the roast chicken five-spiced bone removal, muscle and bone detachment, Chu Anjun using the west street river bay in the lotus leaves for packaging, roast chicken fresh fragrance and lotus leaf fragrance complement each other, the taste is more layered. Chu Ji roast chicken because of its authentic material selection, integrity management, delicious taste, by the local people warmly welcomed, and even many foreign merchants come to taste fast, has become the most famous local food in Yucheng. Surrounded by a number of neighbors to learn art, driven by the Chu family, west street appeared a number of shops engaged in roast chicken, for a time, west street city god temple market in the roast chicken shops lined up, aroma full of street, people every time to the market will linger. However, due to chu ji's earliest engaged in roast chicken production, and the taste is better than other shops, so Chu Ji roast chicken shop business is the best, every day customers surplus door, overwhelmed, because the roast chicken process is complex, time-consuming more, in order to ensure the quality of roast chicken, insist on selling only one pot a day, about thirty sticks, sold out, many customers are afraid of not being able to buy, the shop did not open the door early to come to the queue to wait.
In 1750 (the fifteenth year of the Qianlong Dynasty), Han Xihuan went to Yucheng to serve as a zhi county, and Han Xihuan was not only a famous scholar, poet, but also a gourmet. During the Yu period, Hanzhi County sympathized with the people and benefited the people, and had quite a political achievement and was loved by the people. After arriving at the post, Hanzhi County Micro Service privately visited the City God Temple Market, was attracted by the aroma of roast chicken that Chu Ji had just come out of the pot, and after tasting it, he was amazed, and after carefully inquiring about the production process, according to the record of "grilling vegetables" in "Lü's Spring and Autumn", he thought that it was more in line with the process of "grilling", and then renamed Chu Ji roast chicken to Chu Ji grilled chicken. "Grilling" is an important cooking technique of Lu cuisine, and the most important thing is to master the heat. "Lü's Spring and Autumn" mentions that "five tastes and three materials, nine boiling and nine changes, the age of fire, the time of illness, the elimination of fishy and the removal of the cheek, will be victorious, without losing its reasoning." Chu Ji grilled chicken is exactly in line with the "grilled" technique, after the name change, the surrounding roast chicken shops have followed suit, Yucheng grilled chicken has been famous ever since. After Han Xizhi county completed his term of office in Yucheng, according to the regulations at that time, he had to go to Beijing to report to the officials and wait for the assignment again. At that time, the officials waiting for vacancies all brought a large amount of gold, silver and treasure into Beijing to seek higher positions. Han Xihuan was a clean and honest official, had no excess savings, and was not good at making friends with powerful people, so he did not have much hope for the appointment of officials in Beijing this time. Before leaving, the people of Yucheng remembered his merits in Yu and sent them local specialties, and Chu Ji grilled chicken was among them. After arriving in Beijing, Han Xihuan shared the Chu Ji grilled chicken he brought with him with the officials of the official department, but he did not expect that the grilled chicken he brought was deeply loved by the officials of the official department, and Han Xihuan was soon awarded the position of head of the Shandong Fanlu Academy. Chu Ji grilled chicken in the capital word of mouth, was recommended into the palace, Qianlong Emperor tasted, greatly appreciated, was listed as a Shandong tribute for the empress and the royal family to enjoy, in order to taste the Yucheng Chu Ji grilled chicken in the hot summer, qianlong emperor special approval of the palace only wooden refrigerator, put ice cubes, fast horse whip transported to the capital, to maintain the fresh flavor of the grilled chicken. Later, because it was too troublesome to transport grilled chicken in Yucheng, the Qianlong Emperor asked Chu Pingxun, the fourth generation of Chu Ji grilled chicken at that time, to enter the palace as a royal cook, specially making grilled chicken, because the processing was more convenient, in addition to being enjoyed by the imperial family, the grilled chicken was also used to receive foreign envoys for the state banquet, which became the first dish of the "Manchu Han Full Table" at that time. Since then, Yucheng Chuji grilled chicken has been well-known throughout the country, well-known in the world, and is known as the world's first chicken
Modern Vice President Song Qingling, on the way back to Beijing from Shanghai, parked in Yucheng many times, purchased grilled chicken, and gave it to Chairman Mao to show respect, so it was civilized throughout the country, exported to home and abroad, and was favored by Chinese and foreign people
Origin of Texas Grilled Chicken:
The strong chicken aroma has been floating for three hundred years, why is the reputation getting bigger and bigger, and more and more people like to eat grilled chicken? It's all in one secret recipe, all condensed in a pot of chicken soup. In the old days, the real skills of grilled chicken artists were passed on to men and not women, and not to the outside, just like the famous historian Eryuehe described in the first paragraph of the first chapter of the biographical novel "The Qianlong Emperor": "Dezhou grilled chicken is famous all over the world, not only in Shandong, but also in Baoding and Henan, and it is also commonly used to send fast horses on the stagecoach road, and every autumn to pay tribute to the imperial palace for a thousand." Chicken is delicious all by a pot of soup, those soups are handed down for more than ten generations, making chicken water never stops. The chicken family is separated, and the floating wealth is not heavy, and the pot of brine soup is valued. "After the founding of New China, the grilled chicken industry embarked on the road of co-operation, and began to form the Texas Grilled Chicken Joint Venture Company by more than 20 grilled chicken heirs. More than 30 old grilled chicken shops in Dezhou City, such as Tianyifang, Deshun Zhai, Baolan Zhai, Desheng Zhai, Sheng Lan Zhai, Fu Shun Zhai and Tianfu Zhai, all entered the state-owned Dezhou City Food Company in the spring of 1956 by beating gongs and drums together, becoming official state-run employees, and have been passed down from generation to generation until the establishment of the Texas Grilled Chicken Group Company. At that time, in order to unify the signboards of the products of state-owned enterprises, the grilled chicken font number representing Texas was changed to the "Texas" brand, which has been used to this day. The old artists who entered the state-owned enterprises still abide by the old rules of passing on the craftsmanship only to the internal apprentices, and are not allowed to pass on the old rules, and the boiling chicken soup of each family name is also included in the state-run cauldron, and the boiling and hot boiling every year is hot, but it is never allowed to be taken out privately. To say that the chicken boiling is delicious thirty-one steps of the process is also sloppy, that is, the big stone of boiling the chicken pressure grate you have to use the old stone that has been cooked for decades to make the taste, just like the "medicine primer" of decoction medicine Is not enough to taste without it. The Master Dao Zude they obeyed was: "No one millimeter of ingredients shall be increased or decreased at will, and every minute and second of stewing shall not be allowed to be casually written and martial." This teaching has been passed down to this day and is still followed by people who pass on the grilled chicken
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