It has tenderloin and bone marrow, not just bones. Because it looks like a Y-shaped scorpion, it is called the Sheep Scorpion, which is very popular in northern China. Sheep and scorpions are often used to make broth hotpot, which tastes delicious.
According to the literature, in the Qing Dynasty, a palace often stewed hot pot with sheep spine. Before the bones were chopped, they were shaped like scorpions, and later they were named sheep scorpions, which is the origin of the name of sheep scorpions.
Sheep scorpion hot pot, a clear soup based on scorpions, has a history of more than 300 years in northern China. On the basis of the original clear soup, more than 30 kinds of pure Chinese herbal medicine spices such as pepper, pepper, lobster sauce, cinnamon, fennel, pepper, dried ginger, galangal, Amomum villosum, clove, kaempferia kaempferia, angelica dahurica, astragalus membranaceus, radix rehmanniae, long pepper and tsaoko were added to make the soup stock.
Historical allusion
Su Shi, a great writer in Song Dynasty, was demoted to Huizhou because of political struggle. The local market is scarce and commodities are scarce, but he kills a sheep every day. Because Su Shi is a prisoner on death row, he dare not compete with local dignitaries for good mutton.
So Su Shi privately told the man who killed the sheep to leave him the backbone of the sheep that no one usually wanted, with a little mutton between these bones. After Su Shi took it home, he cooked the sheep's spine first, then poured it on the bones with wine, added a little salt, baked it with fire, and ate it after the flesh and blood were slightly burnt.
Su Shi picks minced meat among sheep bones all day, claiming to eat seafood, shrimps and crabs. Su Shi ate the sheep's spine every once in a while and mocked his younger brother Su Zhe in a letter at home. You are lucky. After years of eating and drinking at public funds, your teeth have sunk in and you can't touch sheep bones. How can you understand this delicious food?
At the end of the letter, Su Shi said humorously that this way of eating is good, but every time he picks out the meat on the bone, the dogs around him are very unhappy.