1, according to legend, the end of the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, about 1776, Jin Maosheng, founder of the Jin family store sheep soup, because of the family's poverty, forced to make ends meet, the idea of doing sheep soup business to support the family. Although mutton is a superior meat, the stench of the fishy gas often makes diners shy away from it, not daring to ask for it.

In order to find a way to eliminate the fishy and stinky, Jin Maosheng old man painstakingly, from the spices on the test, in the production of efforts, selected hundreds of natural seasonings, countless times with the formula, countless times to screen and concentrate, and finally made not fishy and not stinky, fresh and tasty soup, young and old, for the crowd's favorite mutton soup.

The old man Jin Maosheng has become a legendary figure inside and outside the old city, and a beautiful legend has been passed down.

2, Hebei Pingquan lamb soup comes from a variety of legends, one of the most widely rumored is that the Kangxi Emperor in the paddock ditch (now Pingquan party dam) set up a hunting enclosure in the chase of a sika deer, all the way to the ground of the eight grooves (now Pingquan County, Pingquan Town). Deer into the willow forest did not chase, the emperor's hunger is up.

At this time, not far away from a burst of aroma, very tempting, Kang Xi incense to find, found a small store, store an old man is busy in the iron pot cooking a bunch of looking at the oily things, the aroma is from the pot. He also did not ask the price, straight to call: "quickly come to rice!" The old man who ran the store didn't dare to be slow, and hurriedly served out a bowl of chopped haggis soup, and took two baklava in his hand.

Kang Xi after eating radiant, hundred times more energetic, only to remember that did not ask what to eat, the old man told: "This is called haggis soup, is made of sheep's miscellaneous." He felt very flavorful enough, then casually said a poem: "Xifengkou outside far, the ancient road north of the Sebei long. Wild deer enter the willow forest, and haggis soup is made in the eight ditches."

From then on, the eight ditch mutton soup fame, no one outside of Guanli Guanwai, foreign diners said: "No wonder Pingquan's mutton soup is so good, the original also received the imperial seal of Kangxi!"

Expanded

Mutton soup is a dish, the production of raw materials are mainly mutton, chili oil, pepper, salt, etc., the soup white, fat and not greasy, no stink, in all parts of the country have their own characteristics of the local famous food.

Effective characteristics: lamb contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on. It is warm and flavorful, warms the middle and disperses the cold, dissolves stagnation, strengthens the gland and benefits the qi, warms the kidney and yang, and is effective in the treatment of deficiency labor and winnings, and breast milk is not good. Wyatt's Knee is bitter and sour in flavor, flat in nature, with strong tendons and bones, blood circulation and menstruation. This dish with lamb as the main ingredient, with a variety of traditional Chinese medicine, has the effect of strengthening the chest.

Mutton soup in Lingbao, western Henan, almost everyone drinks mutton soup, everyone has a few stories about mutton soup. Mutton soup for Lingbao is no longer just a diet, but a culture, is a Lingbao people and its inseparable sentiment. The history of Lingbao mutton soup originated in what year and month can not be traced, but its long history is beyond doubt.

"Shanxian Mutton Soup" was first created in 1807, when Xu, Dou, Zhou, three families joined forces to create, so it was named "San Yi Chun" Mutton Museum. Today, there are nearly 208 years of history of Shanxian mutton soup, with its "color white like milk, water and fat mingling, pure texture, fresh and not stinky, fragrant and not greasy, rotten and not sticky" unique style, included in the Chinese recipes, soup into the spectrum of only Shanxian mutton soup, known as "China's first soup! "

Beijing's mutton soup inside added leek flowers, soy sauce tofu, full of marinade flavor; and Shaanxi's mutton soup taste heavier, which added sheep's blood, greens, vermicelli. There are many goat soup restaurants in Dandong, mainly located in Kuandian, Hekou and downtown Dandong. Most of the sheep soup restaurants slaughter their sheep first every morning, so the soup is especially fresh.

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