Huai 'an cuisine is red and bright, fat but not greasy, salty and sweet, soft and delicious. It is made of selected pig's phlegm, pig's trotters and pig's sausage casing as the main materials, with cinnamon, clove, star anise, pepper, fruit, licorice, orange peel, bean kernels, mirabilite, yellow wine, ice cream, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, onion ginger, sesame oil, high-grade soy sauce and other auxiliary materials, and refined through more than 20 processes. The main method is: clean the fresh pig's trotters, cut them into long strips, mash the ingredients according to a certain proportion, extract them on the cut meat slices, and stir them evenly. Then, soak the main ingredients in high-quality soy sauce for five or six hours, pick them up, wrap them into a catty with cut dry pig casings like bandages, tie them tightly with straw ropes for external use, cook them in the original soup, pick them up and cool them, and loosen the straw ropes, thus making the authentic high-furrowed foot-bound hoof, which is thick and half a foot long, round and moist. Cut it into thin slices with a sharp knife and buckle it on a plate as a cold dish. It has distinct layers, bright colors and strong flavor. After eating, leave your mouth full of fragrance, and then take a few sips of this world famous wine. It's really interesting and delicious. "The Mid-Autumn Festival is getting colder and colder." Nowadays, the high-heeled hoof, which is delicious and convenient to eat, has become a delicacy for three meals and four seasons. Especially on the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, merchants from all over the country came to Gaogou to purchase hoof flowers in an endless stream, and there were several "hoof flower fever" and "snapping up wind". Nowadays, Lianshui county has increased the production rules and regulations of high ditch and hoofing, acquired production equipment and improved production capacity. Gaogou Town has built a hoof-tying factory, and there are hundreds of specialized households in the county, which makes this traditional skill glow in the New Year. Huai 'an Cuisine Huai 'an Teahouse Huai 'an Teahouse has a long history and unique flavor. It is one of Huai 'an specialties. As early as the Warring States period, there were teahouses. Some people call it "thin doughnut", and Liu Yuxi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, praised it in a poem: Take a thin hand to find jade, and the blue oil will turn yellow. Sleeping in the spring at night without bright dreams, crushing beautiful women and embracing gold. It can be seen that tea cakes at that time have become people's favorite food. The production of Huai 'an tea cake began in the Tang Dynasty, and its fame began in the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, there was a family named Yue in Huai 'an who specialized in making tea cakes, which was once listed as a tribute. Yuejia tea cake has beautiful and peculiar shape and reasonable ingredients. The prickly heat is as thin as thread, as yellow as gold, interlocking and connected with silk. When eaten in the mouth, it is fragrant, crisp, crisp, sweet and slightly salty. People are scrambling to buy it, and it is a blessing to be able to buy Yuejia tea. He won the bronze award of Nanyang Persuasion Association and the silver award of Panama International Expo in Qing Dynasty. 1983 won the provincial famous product certificate. Huai 'an tea cake is made of refined white flour, sesame seeds, fine salt or sugar, rolled into long strips and wire rods, and fried with fragrant oil. No alkali is added in the production, and it is fried in warm oil, which is not easy to deteriorate. Its shapes are fan-shaped, comb-shaped, pagoda-shaped, lotus-shaped, gourd-shaped and chrysanthemum-shaped. It is characterized by fragrance, crispness, crispness, full yellow oil color, crispness, rich aroma, instant ignition, and melting in water. Huai 'an tea cake is not only a convenient food, but also a nourishing food with special curative effect on some diseases. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", it tastes sweet and salty, wet and nontoxic. It has the functions of "facilitating urination and defecation, moistening intestines, warming the middle warmer and benefiting qi". He also said: use corydalis tuber, ixeris sonchifolia and so on. At the end, take half a dollar to one dollar at a time; Drinking Twist Head (teacup) soup before eating can cure urinary tract obstruction in children. According to legend, Empress Dowager Cixi once suffered from breast tumors, and there was no cure. An Ren Han Dazhai, the imperial doctor's beach, opened a folk prescription. "Huai' an sesame oil tea cake has four branches, litchi kernel has two grinds, and rice wine has two pairs, which are fried together; Big quilt. "After Cixi took three stickers, the breast tumor disappeared, and Cixi was very happy. From then on, Huai 'an tea cake won a good reputation in Beijing and became a tribute of the Qing Dynasty. For many years, it has been a custom for women in the Jianghuai Valley to drink tea when they are pregnant and have children. According to the test, drinking tea before delivery for pregnant women has wonderful effects of relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, loosening bones and promoting growth; Drinking tea after delivery can strengthen the body. Therefore, between Jianghuai, whoever gives birth to a child, relatives and friends buy tea cakes for the mother. So far, there is a folk saying: "Don't eat jiaozi in the confinement-this is a loss." At present, Huai 'an tea cake is the most famous tea cake produced by Gulou Food Factory. Its system has not only been handed down by the descendants of the Yue family, but also been continuously improved by modern technology. Shapes are comb-shaped, chrysanthemum-shaped, pagoda-shaped and so on. Comb (length 4 inches, width 1 inch) is the most popular. People often like to give Huai 'an teacups as gifts to relatives and friends. Visitors to Huai also don't forget to bring a few boxes of beautifully decorated, crispy and delicious tea cups as precious souvenirs of their travels. 1965, a leading comrade of Huai' an county went to Beijing for a meeting and specially brought a basket of teacups to Premier Zhou Enlai. The prime minister accepted the kindness of the people in his hometown, but insisted that the comrades in the county party Committee take the gifts back. This incident shows the honest style of the Prime Minister, and at the same time adds a much-told story to Huai 'an Teahouse. Raw materials of sweet potato shreds: sweet potato, sugar, cooked sesame, sweet-scented osmanthus bittern and cooked lard. Practice: peel and cut the sweet potato into pieces, fry it in a hot oil pan until it is golden with a shell, and drain the water; Leave a little oil in the pot, cook the sugar until it melts, add osmanthus bittern, pour the sweet potato into the pot, sprinkle with cooked sesame seeds and serve. Features: crisp outside and tender inside, spicy and sweet, slender as gold wire. Brief introduction of Huaian vegetable fried rice: raw materials: green vegetables, cooked bacon, chopped green onion, japonica rice, refined salt and cooked lard. Practice: Slice the vegetables, add the diced bacon and stir-fry them in the oil pan. Stir-fry chopped green onion in another pot, add japonica rice and stir well, then add vegetables and diced bacon, stir well and serve in a bowl. Features: red, green and white, like jade, fragrant and salty. Brief introduction of steamed dumplings in soup: raw materials: white flour, fresh pork, fresh skin, cooked winter bamboo shoots, shrimp, soy sauce, refined salt, Shaoxing wine, sugar, monosodium glutamate, white pepper powder and onion ginger juice. Method: boil the skin with water until it is rotten, chop it up and boil it into jelly; Chop fresh pork, add winter bamboo shoots and rice, skin jelly and seasoning, stir to make stuffing, put flour in hot water to cook dough, rub strips, remove agent, roll skin, wrap the stuffing into crescent shape, and steam it in a steamer. Features: thin skin and many fillings, thick juice and fresh stuffing.