Chapter 38 Chapter 38 Dongpo Mountain Pheasant Soup

Su Dongpo's poem "Food Pheasant" said: "The male pheasant flicked his tail and flew towards the sun. Fighting in the air, the colorful feathers fell like flowers. Noisy and brave, whoever throws the net will get back. Excellent. Cooking mixed chicken and owls, the distance between the claws and the teeth. Who knew it turned into a mirage, and the crows fell in the sea." In my heart, Mr. Dongpo wrote this poem exquisitely. Only the eaters realize that Taibai is not only a poet of wine, but Dongpo is also a poet of food.When Su Dongpo, a litterateur in the Northern Song Dynasty, was demoted to Huangzhou as the deputy envoy of Tuanlian, he really tasted and created many delicious dishes.Interestingly, Su Dongpo always recorded his food activities in the form of poems.

The historical Huangzhou and today's Huanggang City still covers the western part of the Dabie Mountains. From north to south, there are Hong'an, Macheng, Luotian, Yingshan, Xishui, Huangmei, Qichun, and Wuxue. The mountains are connected by the Mufu Mountains, and today it has jurisdiction over 11 counties and urban areas, with a territory of 17,400 square kilometers and a population of 7.13 million.The main peak of Dabie Mountain is Tiantangzhai, which is located between Luotian, Yingshan and Jinzhai County in Anhui. It is 1729 meters above sea level. fight.Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty praised: "Walk the radish to the toe of the mountain, and meet He Zhengrong who blows down." Yanguzhai is inserted between the clouds, the first pass in the southeast of Wu and Chu."The Dabie Mountains below 900 meters above sea level have a north subtropical monsoon climate, warm and humid, with abundant rainfall, while those above 900 meters above sea level are cool and humid, foggy, and subtropical plant species are reduced.There are rare birds and animals in the Dabie Mountains. According to local records, before the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, counties such as Luotian used mountain pheasants as yearly tributes. The only standard in history is to pay tribute to the imperial court. Good things.

There are indeed many ways to eat pheasants, such as deep-frying, braised in soy sauce, stewing, waxing, etc., but Su Dongpo's Northern Song Dynasty did not have today's fine iodized salt, nor MSG chicken essence, but only pursued the essence of things.Therefore, the pheasant preserved soup is very delicious and pure soup.Catch young pheasants weighing half a catty to one catty, remove the hair after killing them, peel the breast meat and cut into thin shreds, mix with a little egg white and mix well, add gorgon powder and mix well, the pheasant meat at this time is a kind of translucent flesh-colored, pink and delicate.Use a bowl of well water in the morning, boil it, add shredded ginger, scallion white, white pepper, some winter bamboo shoot slices, and a few grains of sea salt. The shredded pork is cooked immediately.

Pheasant preserved meat shredded soup, the soup is milky in color, special attention should be paid when drinking the soup, there is a layer of bright yellow pheasant oil on the surface of the soup, so it does not steam (all chicken soups also do not steam), it is extremely hot If you accidentally drink it in a hurry, it will burn your mouth full of blisters.There is a layer of golden oil on the surface of the milk-colored soup, scoop it up and blow it several times, and drink it leisurely. It is a feeling of sweet mountain pheasant soup full of morning dew, fresh mountain breath, generous and mellow The quality of mountain poultry, and then eat shredded pork, the shredded pork is fresh and fragrant, and it melts in the mouth.If you put a few leaves of Chinese Qiqi on the soup, it will add a taste of spring with green onions.

Dongpo Pheasant Soup has spread throughout the southeast of Hubei, and it is still a good traditional soup. Some gourmets in Huangzhou believe that fried pheasant pieces in casserole stewed soup is the way of Dongpo spring pheasant chicken (pheasant is pheasant ), that is, the benevolent sees benevolence, and the wise see wisdom, and the deliciousness of Dongpo Mountain Pheasant Soup is irreplaceable.