Soon, Chen Xiucai separated. After Chen Youde started his business, Yang Mi needed to be nourished, so he mentioned delicious cat porridge, and Chen Youde readily agreed. Every time he cooks porridge, he personally goes to the market to carefully buy fresh ingredients, takes three or four pieces of turtle, three or four pieces of dried shrimp, three or four pieces of chicken breast, three or four pieces of fish, a small amount of lean meat and a little winter vegetables, carefully blends them with soy sauce and pours them into a small pot of bone soup; Then, pour in the prepared white rice and mix it evenly, sprinkle with Yan and Sui, and serve it to Yang while it is hot. Yang Guifei thanked her husband for his kindness and often praised Chen Youde's skill in cooking cat porridge in front of her neighbors, so this authentic cat porridge spread.
After being developed and popularized by chefs, cat porridge has become a famous snack with unique flavor in Zhaoan. Today's cat porridge not only maintains its original flavor, but also makes some innovations. It combines fresh soup, fresh porridge and rice with soft accessories, smells sweet and refreshing, and tastes delicious. The cooking method of cat porridge is constantly innovating, and now it is cooked in a single pot and a bowl, which is fast and fierce. In the past, a small air furnace was used to burn charcoal, but now a liquefied gas furnace is used, which has greater firepower and better effect. When cooking, first put a spoonful of water in a small pot, a spoonful of steamed rice, and put it on a gas stove with full fire. Then, put a proper amount of delicious shrimp, mullet, squid, sliced meat, Jane, Fu and fish fillets in a small dish, add a little soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper, and rub it with the five fingers of the washed right hand, which looks like a cat grabbing food. After the water in the pot is boiled, add the auxiliary materials and cook it, then sprinkle with fried garlic and radish. A big bowl of steaming and fragrant cat porridge is appetizing. The stalls selling cat porridge are all placed on the street at night, lit a lamp and sold at two or three in the morning. The compartment is like a cat that keeps watch.
Since the reform and opening up, people's pockets have swelled, and many people like to eat cat porridge, a folk food. So the cat porridge went out of the county gate, south to Guangdong and north to Zhangzhou, and the business was very popular. Now Zhaoan has not only experienced cat porridge chefs, but also a large number of new artists. Many overseas Chinese, Taiwan compatriots and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao who came back to Sang Zi from southern Fujian liked to eat the cat porridge in this county, so as to taste the unique flavor of the cat porridge and feel the deep homesickness. Excerpted from "Fujian Province Primary School Sixth Grade Local Textbook"
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According to incomplete statistics, there are several legends and records about cat porridge. We take the local textbooks for the sixth grade of primary schools in Fujian Province as a model and strive to achieve standardization. Of course, folklore is a legend after all, and how to study it scientifically remains to be observed in the future. For example, some scholars wrote that cat porridge can be traced back to the late Yuan Dynasty. When Zhu Yuanzhang passed Zhao 'an, there was no place to eat because of the war. Wu Er, a general of the Ming Dynasty, entertained Zhu Yuanzhang, who later became Ming Taizu, with cat porridge. Zhu Yuanzhang praised the food after eating it, and impromptu shouted out the golden sentence of "the best porridge in the world"!
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