Ezhou delicacy-roasted chicken in Tuzaotang

After living in 708090 in Ezhou, I must have eaten the delicacy of stove-roasted chicken fetus when I was a child. It is the kind of live chicken that has been completely hatched by a hen but has not come out of its shell. Use it Tangle the straw and throw it into the earthen stove fire pond and cook for about ten minutes. Take out and sprinkle some salt to eat directly.

The flavour of the chicken fetus is very delicious, and the meat is unmatched by other chickens. Its meat is not only delicious, but also tender quality comparable to pufferfish. Peel off the eggshell and bite the chicken that has not hatched. The tender meat and smooth juice dance in your mouth. It's really intoxicating to think about it. How about it, drooling?

Not only that, but the baby chicken fetus is also a big tonic in the private sector. It has the effects of beauty, health and blood enrichment. Compared with ordinary eggs, live beads contains what the human body needs. 8 kinds of amino acids and 2 kinds of amino acids necessary for infants and young children. Taurine, which promotes brain development of infants and young children, is increased by nearly 20 times (20 times does not mean a large amount), promotes bone growth in infants and young children and prevents old-age bones The calcium required for loosening is increased by more than 6 times, and other nutrients are significantly higher than that of ordinary eggs. The fat content that is harmful to the human body is reduced by 50%, and the cholesterol is only one-fifth of the original. It is an ideal green food supplement.

Li Shizhen " Compendium of Materia Medica" has a record: "Chicken eggs have the function of curing headaches, migraines, head madness and paralysed limbs." If the weak can eat regularly, yes. Invigorate the spleen and stomach, and then play the role of strengthening the body.

However, I remember my grandma told me when I was a child that the traditional chicken fetus was a long time ago,It was made with freshly broken eggs, and with the changes in living conditions, it slowly evolved into eating live chicken fetuses.

Whether it is alive or dead, I have eaten both of them when I was a child. Personally, I feel that the taste is not much different. However, it is worth mentioning that chicken fetuses are not unique to modern times. There are historical records that have been popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties for and Huguang generation. Among them, the custom of eating Fujian " phoenix egg" is also similar to that of Emperor Qianlong. origin.

It is said that one year Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River and passed through the Huguang area and his entourage was scattered. He was hungry and exhausted when he walked alone. He rested at a farmhouse by the road to beg for food to satisfy his hunger. So he took out a few eggs that were hatching in the chicken coop and boiled them for him to eat. Unexpectedly, Qianlong tasted more and more delicious, and named it "Phoenix Egg".

The fetuses of chickens are eggs that have been hatched but have not hatched. The young chickens in Ezhou are different from the hairy eggs commonly known in other places. The young chickens in Ezhou are live Fetuses can hatch chicks, while hairy eggs cannot hatch chicks if they are stillborn. The embryo in the egg has developed, peel off the eggshell, you can see the embryonic form of the chick, the soft fluff, and even the bones of the chicken. Use live chicken embryos that hatch naturally. Never eat the stillbirth.

and the way of eating in Ezhou area is also different from other places. The Ezhou generation is cooked in the earthen stove pond, and in other places, for example, the Fujian generation is cooked with wine, or Baked with salt.

What’s more important is that the ingredients used in Ezhou are all from the hens' hatching process, while other locations are hatched with scientific machines, and some are even dead eggs and hairy chicks.

Unfortunately,As living conditions get better and better, people are accustomed to go to the vegetable market to buy ready-made food. As a result, many ancient food cultures in the Ezhou area have withered. Now let alone young chickens, there are very few chickens, let alone Talk about the chicks that have been hatched by the hens.