You see this bowl has a big circle, you see this meat has a long and wide, is your impression of the meat no?
Guess what! This one is called haggis cutting!
In the historical legend, haggis cutting originated in Linfen Quwo County, and the raw materials are mainly the internal organs of sheep, such as belly silk, intestinal segments, blood bars, sheep liver, sheep lungs, etc.
When you see this name, perhaps your first reaction is "Who gave this name?" It's so arbitrary! Indeed, whether it sounds or says it, "haggis cutting" is more difficult to say. But even this not-so-nice name has a big head.
According to legend, until the Yuan Dynasty, haggis was popular in Shanxi during the Yuan Dynasty. Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, entered the Central Plains from Jindi (present-day Shanxi) via Quwo County, Linfen City, and his mother Empress Zhuangsheng suddenly felt unwell due to her inability to adapt to the local environment.
Kublai Khan
Considering his mother's health, Kublai Khan issued an order to stop the march and posted a notice asking for medical treatment. Xu Guozhen, the divine doctor of Quwo, was well versed in the tao of medicine, and Kublai Khan heard about it and sent someone to invite him. Sure enough, as the old saying goes, as soon as the doctor struck, he knew if there was one. After Empress Zhuang Sheng took the medicine for a few days according to the divine doctor's formula, her originally uncomfortable body was much better. During this period, Dr. Xu's mother, Han Shi, was recruited to cook for the empress dowager and Kublai Khan because she was good at cooking.
Mongolians like to eat mutton, kublai khan, as a Mongolian, can not be separated from mutton for three meals a day. But at that time, he only ate the surface flesh of the sheep, and the offal that he did not eat would be thrown away. Han's lifelong thriftiness, can not bear to throw away the sheep offal, so he took out the offal and washed, marinated with green onions, ginger and other salts to remove the fishy smell, put into the pot to cook, with peppers, green onions into a cold dish. After tasting it, the empress dowager even claimed praise, and at that time gave the name "haggis cheese".
Later, people used the name of haggis cutting, which gradually spread to Shuozhou, Taiyuan and other places, and more and more people ate it, becoming an indispensable traditional snack in Shanxi.
Although Shanxi haggis is mediocre, as long as you take a bite, you are its person from now on, inseparable, can not quit, do not believe? Try it!