No food, no morning.
Steamed buns, salted duck eggs and thin porridge are standard for many people's breakfasts. A large, lustrous salted duck egg, tap the eggshell and slowly peel it off. A chopstick pokes down, the golden egg yolk flows out of the oil, the smell of the nose. Taste it, the texture of the smooth rustle, the lips and teeth are fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless.
Salted duck eggs are fresh duck eggs as the main raw material after being pickled, rich in nutrients, rich in fat, protein, easy to be absorbed by the human body, salty taste is moderate, suitable for all ages.
Chinese the history of eating salted duck eggs can be traced back to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the ancients called salted duck eggs "salted duck eggs" because the ancients made salted duck eggs with bark juice and salt pickling. It is written in the Qi Min Zhi Shu: "It is stained with bark, hence the name." ”
There are several places in China where salted duck eggs can be said to be very famous.
Jiangsu Gaoyou salted duck egg is the most famous.
Yuan Ming's "Suiyuan Food Menu • Small Menu" has written: "Pickled eggs are better than high post, red in color and more oil"
Gaoyou salted duck eggs have six characteristics, fresh, fine, tender, loose, sand and oil. And it's big.
Gaoyou salted duck eggs are delicious and inseparable from Gaoyou's geographical location. Gaoyou City is located in the Lixia River area on the north bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, and is a national ecological demonstration city. The territory is rich in aquatic animals and plants, which provides a high-quality growth and foraging environment for Gaoyou ducks.
Gaoyou hemp duck is large, tight fur, deep diving, strong foraging power, generally stocked in the water network area, eat more fish and shrimp, which ensures the quality of natural green food of Gaoyou duck eggs.
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Gaoyou Ma Duck is one of the three excellent duck families in China, and the other two duck strains are Beijing Duck and Shaoxing Duck. The difference between these three types of ducks is: Gaoyou hemp duck is an egg-meat compatible variety, Shaoxing hemp duck belongs to an egg-type variety, and Beijing duck belongs to a meat-type variety. The egg production rate belongs to shaoxing ma duck first, and the meat production of Beijing duck is the first. In addition, Gaoyou Ma Duck is famous at home and abroad for producing double yellow eggs and even three yellow eggs.
Baiyangdian is known as the "Pearl of North China". Anxin Baiyangdian salted duck egg is a specialty of Baiyangdian in Anxin County, Baoding City, Hebei Province.
Duck eggshell is blue, the appearance is round and smooth, Baiyangdian is also known as "green fruit", Baiyangdian salted duck egg is characterized by the red heart of the egg.
Baiyangdian salted duck egg duck from the vast water village of Baiyangdian, this duck is natural stocking, free to eat small shrimp, small fish, snails, etc., towards the twilight, nutrient absorption is sufficient, coupled with the good natural environment of Baiyangdian, the natural nutrition of the duck eggs produced is comprehensive, no pollution, no chemical residues.
Xiantao's salted duck eggs, called "Shahu Salt Eggs", are produced in Shahu Town, Xiantao City. Shahu salt egg has the saying that "protein is like gelatinous white jade, and egg yolk is like red orange flowing dan". It is a salted egg made from duck eggs produced in the local "Cunyang Ma Duck" of Xiantao.
According to legend, when a local jinshi named Li Fuzao in Shahu returned to his hometown and relatives, he once selected "Shahu salt eggs" as a specialty to present to the emperor, and the emperor was full of praise after tasting it, and even praised it: "Good eggs, good eggs, really like a little pearl." "After the Sand Lake salt eggs became a tribute to the imperial court.
This place of Sand Lake is located in the land of water network. Small fish, shrimp and shellfish are abundant. These organisms contain carotenoids, astaxanthin and lutein. Therefore, after the duck eats it, the eggs will be reddish. Therefore, ducks who grow up in the water pool have a higher probability of producing red hearts.
Weishan Lake is located in southern Shandong Province, next to Weishan County and Binhu Town in Tengzhou City.
Weishan hemp duck is one of the four famous ducks in the country, which is stocked in the lake for many years and mainly eats live fish and shrimp, shellfish and field snails. So it is large and tender, tender and delicious. The quality of the duck eggs produced is therefore also very high.
Weishan Lake salted duck egg is characterized by: fine and oily, the yolk as a whole is soft and sticky, the egg white is tender, not like the hair drying and powder elsewhere, the entrance is like chewing lime. The amount of oil is especially unattractive. It is said that after tasting it, it is unforgettable.
High-quality salted duck eggs are inseparable from the good ducks of origin, as well as the innovative production process that people have passed down from generation to generation. Good ducks can produce good duck eggs, and good duck eggs are carefully processed by people to become delicious salted duck eggs and become delicious dishes on our table.