1900, the boxer incident, Empress Dowager Cixi came to xi 'an with Emperor Guangxu. One day, she took the imperial chariot and passed the ramp of Chenghuang Temple. She stopped in front of the chariot and asked, where is delicious? A: There is a mutton shop in old boys that makes preserved mutton. The queen mother was so greedy that she sent for it. After tasting it, she was overjoyed She rewarded the golden signboard: "Stop Slope" hung in front of the store, and listed the preserved mutton in old boys as a tribute.

The mutton on the slope is preserved mutton from old boys. This is that food is the first thing for the people, but the queen mother actually stopped it; Before that, people had stopped, so food has been handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years, and it has been managed by Tong Linbao, a fourth-generation descendant. The old boy's preserved mutton has won many honors such as famous trademarks in Shaanxi Province in the hands of the fourth generation of children, which has been reported by CCTV and Shaanxi Satellite TV many times. It is a specialty of Shaanxi.

When making this kind of meat, you should marinate it: pour it into well water with large porcelain jars, mutton and fresh mutton with bones, put it in, fold the skin relatively, sprinkle with refined salt and mirabilite, marinate it for one to two days in summer, three to four days in spring and autumn, and four to five days in winter until the inside and outside of the meat turn red. Second boiling: pour in the old bittern soup as much as clear water, with pepper, star anise, cinnamon and fennel as auxiliary materials, and boil over high fire. Put the mutton in a pot with the skin facing up, then burn the salt, cover it, and cook it for four or five hours on high fire until the meat is rotten. Three fishing: skim off the floating oil, crush it with fire, stew for half an hour until the soup temperature drops, pick the meat with a long bamboo stick and put it in a porcelain plate. Four decanters: put the pigskin on a flat plate, rinse it with raw soup several times, and then dry it carefully with a clean cloth.

Because it was the legacy left by Cixi, this kind of meat gradually entered the banquet of the upper class, and it became more and more popular, with the virtue of climbing high branches. In recent years, some people even used it as a back door gift, which caused a bad reputation.

Recorder's statement: Someone once criticized cured mutton and suggested that it be expelled from the snack list. But they are sold in the streets and alleys; Besides, it is the butcher, not the preserved mutton, who should be guilty of sending preserved mutton through the back door, so he is disobedient.