People who have lived in the north probably have warm memories of drinking mutton offal soup in the snow. I still remember when I was in college, on a cold winter night, my classmates liked to hide under the covers to review their lessons. At this time, as long as someone mentioned that hot and spicy mutton soup with a little smell, everyone would jump out of the covers, grab lunch boxes, rush to the small shop selling mutton offal soup, and sit at the greasy table, munching sesame cakes and gulping mutton soup. That feeling will never be forgotten.

The so-called sheep offal is called sheep offal because it contains everything, such as sheep head, sheep hoof, sheep heart, sheep liver, sheep lung, sheep intestines and sheep blood. Don't think that these are all foods that can't be served on the table. They each have their own functions: for example, smallpox (sheep brain) has the function of strengthening the brain and improving eyesight, especially suitable for the elderly and neurasthenia; Mouth strips (tongue) can strengthen the body and replenish blood, and it is most suitable for those who recover from illness to eat regularly.

In fact, the method of mutton offal soup is very simple: add clear water into the pot, and when the water rings, add mutton, mutton offal and sheep bones, scoop out floating foam with high fire, then add Chinese herbal medicines such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Cinnamomum cassia, Fructus Tsaoko, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and almond, and add onion and ginger, and cook for more than an hour.

authentic mutton offal soup pays attention to cooking the soup the afternoon before, soaking all mutton offal in the bottom soup for one night, and heating it again the next day to sell it to guests. When eating, the cooked mutton and mutton offal in the soup pot are chopped and put into a bowl, and then the mutton soup is filled with minced garlic sprouts and spicy oil, and eaten together with sesame seed cakes.

Mutton offal soup is available in many parts of the country, and the cooking methods are different. Sichuan yuechi county mutton offal soup, with dried vegetables and coriander as ingredients, tastes more attractive; The "Bagou Mutton Miscellaneous Soup" in Chengde, Hebei Province is said to be the imperial meal ordered by Emperor Kangxi. The mutton offal soup in Beijing is rich in spices, including chives, sesame sauce, fermented bean curd, shrimp sauce, etc. Shanxi mutton offal soup must be accompanied by old vinegar and pepper, which is sour and blunt; The mutton offal soup in Weihai, Shandong Province, is particularly affordable. The mutton offal is 1 kg in 1 yuan, and you can drink the mutton soup casually, which is very generous.