It is said that there are hundreds of kinds of chicken gizzards recorded in history, and there are chickens in eight major cuisines 16 groups. If you change the menu every day, it won't be repeated in a year or so.

Of course, the cooking principles of chicken gizzards in the north and the south are quite different. Relatively speaking, southern chickens pay more attention to fresh and tender work, and northern chickens are inevitably dwarfed.

"Qi Yao Min Shu" recorded the diet and people's livelihood in the Yellow River valley in the sixth century. Among them, there are only several kinds of chicken recipes, such as chicken soup and steamed chicken, which are far less than ducks, geese, cattle and sheep. It can be seen that chicken has been an underdeveloped place in the north since ancient times, let alone a place to work hard.

During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, there was a tinker in Hangzhou who was famous for cooking. At that time, Yang Shiquan commanded the army to defend Hangzhou and admired him very much. Later, Yang Zhuoba was appointed as the governor of Shaanxi, and Pan, the cook, sent coarse cloth and mushrooms to Yang Shiquan.

Yang Wenzhi said, "Mushroom, I know it's good to dip in soy sauce. Who is the cloth? "

Pan, the cook, said, "I don't want to give cloth, but cover the chicken juice with cloth." Adults can't eat delicious food when they go to the north or stay in remote places. Try boiled water here. There is no special chicken soup. "

This should be the earliest "chicken essence" product.

This incident was later included in the storytelling by Mr. Dan Tianfang, which became the evidence of extravagance and waste of Empress Dowager Cixi.

It was a simple thing for Governor Yang to cook soup with coarse cloth soaked in chicken juice, but the chicken soup that Li Hongzhang, an adult in the main hall, drank was like that.

According to historical records, when he was governor of Zhili, after a certain place, the county magistrate carefully prepared a diet, and a chicken soup was cooked with three or five chickens. But I didn't expect the servant to tell him, "nave can't eat your food, she is hungry."

The county magistrate was afraid, so he bribed the cook and went to the kitchen to see how the cook operated. But when I saw a chicken cooking soup, and the soup was just right, the cook took the bowl and drank it, but mixed water into the pot.

The county magistrate said in horror: "I made a soup with three or five chickens, and nave also said that it was not edible. Is that why you entered? "

The chef looked at it and said, "You said he still needs such a good soup outside, so what can I offer when he returns to the department?"

Please enjoy it.