。 "Sloppy", formerly known as ground paste or mother paste (commonly referred to as milk), is a specialty of Luyi County, Henan Province.

Take the selected millet and soybean as raw materials, grind them into pulp with a stone mill, and put some vegetables when cooking. When serving the bowl, put some cooked soybeans and fried noodles on it to serve.

Story about the source of grinding paste:

One year, the people of Kuxian county suffered a disaster, which was first flooded and then drought, and the crops were reduced or even not harvested. Just two crops-soybeans and millet-never harvested, miraculously came alive and harvested some. Other crops will not work, some will not harvest, and some will only harvest a little. People are afraid, so how can they survive? Many people leave only a little millet and soybeans for the elderly and children to eat. Young and strong laborers go out to escape or work, and if they can't work, they have to beg. They all stay at home and starve to death anyway.

One day, an old man with a white beard came to the bitter county town, with a medicine gourd around his waist, or maybe a wine gourd, and a cattle whip in his hand. When he walked to the crossroads, he blew the whip with a wave of his arm and said, "Ew"; "Drink thin, don't eat dry, and live for dozens of days."

Some people pay great attention to the fact that what the old man with white beard said is reasonable. He has already suffered, and he can no longer live according to the normal years. So he peeled the millet, soaked it in soybeans, pushed it into a muddle on the mill, and then boiled it in a pot. Didn't he just eat two bowls, some wild vegetables and elm bark by himself? Don't go out, everyone. If you go out, you may starve to death.

Word spread from mouth to mouth, and I guess it was Lao Tzu who told everyone not to go out, to drink porridge, mix some wild vegetables, leaves and elm bark, and make do with planting wheat so as not to starve people to death.

this is really effective. Every family doesn't go out any more. After planting crops for a year, people put the soaked soybeans and millet together with a mill, then push them on the mill. The ground bean rice juice is boiled in a pot, which looks very thick and doesn't block the mouth. It is delicious. Up to now, the mill paste is still a special food in Luyi's diet. Not only the people in this county like it, but also the guests from other places like it. It is for senior leaders to drink a bowl, and he also likes it.

Luyi is so delicious that it was actually left by Laozi. We should all respect his old man's house. What a good thing he has done for others!

Later, people sprinkled the cooked soybeans on the ground paste through re-processing and re-creation, which made them taste better and more palatable.