Huai 'an Gourmet Gouge Hoof Gouge Hoof is red in color, fat but not greasy, salty and sweet, soft and waxy. It is made of selected pig's phlegm, pig's trotters and dried pig's sausage casing as the main materials, with cinnamon, clove, star anise, pepper, fruit, licorice, dried tangerine 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 is refined through more than 20 processes. The main method is: clean the fresh pig's trotters, cut them into long strips, pound the ingredients into mud according to a certain proportion, pump them onto 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 like a bandage with cut dry pig casings, tie them tightly with straw ropes for external use, cook the original soup, pick them up and let them cool, and loosen the straw ropes to make authentic high-furrowed hooves, which are wrist thick, 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, the aroma is overflowing, and then take a few sips of this world famous wine. It is really fun and delicious. "The Mid-Autumn Festival is getting colder and colder." Today's high-gluten hooves are delicious and convenient to eat, and have become delicious for three meals and four seasons. Especially on the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, merchants from all over the country come to Gaogou to purchase hooves in an endless stream, and there have been several "hooves-tying fever" and "snapping up wind". Nowadays, Lianshui county has increased the production rules and regulations of high-ditch shoe binding, purchased production equipment and improved production capacity. Gaogou Town has set up a shoe binding factory, and there are hundreds of professional households doing shoe binding in the county, which makes the traditional skills glow with new youth. 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 cake". Liu Yuxi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once praised it in a poem: Look for jade with a thin hand, and it is blue, oily and yellow. Sleeping at night in spring has no light dreams, crushing beauty 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 Yue family 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 rushing to buy it, and it is a blessing to buy Yuejia tea. He won the bronze award of Nanyang Persuasion Association and the silver award of Panama World Expo in the second year of Qing Dynasty. 1983 won the provincial famous product certificate. Huai 'an tea cake is made of refined white flour, sesame seeds, refined salt or sugar, twisted into strips and wires, 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 and refreshment, rich aroma, instant ignition, and melting in water. Huai 'an tea cake is not only a convenient food, but also a nourishing food, which has special curative effect on some diseases. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", it tastes sweet and salty, and it is wet and nontoxic. It has the functions of "inducing diuresis to relieve constipation, moistening intestine to relieve constipation, warming middle warmer and benefiting qi". He also said: use corydalis yanhusuo, Kudiezi, etc. As the end, and 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 tumor, and there is no cure. An Ren Han Da Zhai, the imperial doctor's beach, opened a folk prescription, "Huai 'an sesame oil tea, two pieces of litchi seed, two pieces of rice wine, dipped in * * *; 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 has the wonderful effect of relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, relaxing muscles and bones and promoting fertility; Drinking tea after delivery can strengthen the body and is good for health. 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 on the moon-this is a loss." At present, the most famous is Huai 'an tea cake produced by Gulou Food Factory. Its system was not only handed down by the descendants of Yue family, but also improved by modern science and 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 of the county party Committee take the gifts back. This incident shows the clean and honest style of the Prime Minister, and also adds a much-told story to Huai 'an Teahouse. Raw materials of sweet potato shreds: sweet potato, sugar, cooked sesame, osmanthus bittern and cooked lard. Method: Peel and cut the sweet potato into pieces, fry in a hot oil pan until the shell is golden yellow, 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. Method: Slice the vegetables, add the diced bacon and stir-fry thoroughly in the oil pan. Stir-fry chopped green onion in another pot, add japonica rice and stir thoroughly, then add vegetables and diced bacon, stir well and put them in a bowl. Features: red, green and white, like jade, fragrant, salty and refreshing. 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, boil flour in hot water to make dough, rub strips, remove agent, roll skin, wrap the stuffing into crescent shape, and steam in a steamer. Features: thin skin and many fillings, thick juice and fresh stuffing.