Baoyuan Tang used to be a mysterious recipe for diet therapy in the palace. It is said that frequent drinking of this special Baoyuan Tang can straighten the skin without wrinkles or age spots, making the skin delicate and as clean as jade. Back then, the Empress Dowager Cixi liked to drink this soup most. No wonder the old Buddha was already seventy and eighty years old, and his skin was still "as tender as a boy."
In fact, the material of this soup is very simple. A scaly fish (carp, carp, grass carp... Either way; you can't use catfish, eels, hairtail...), Half a catty of beef, a big pig's trotters, hawthorn, red dates, just five things.
The practice is also very simple. Clean up all the ingredients, throw them into the casserole, add water until the pan is 9 minutes full (as long as the soup does not overflow when cooking), do not add seasonings or salt, and cook over low heat for more than 12 hours. Filter the cooked soup and discard the dregs of all filtered fish and other materials. Wait until the soup cools and remove the oil from the surface. Heat it when drinking, one bowl in the morning and evening.
The above is the method of making authentic Baoyuan soup, but it is a pity to throw away the fish, beef, and pig's trotters. Glutton Le introduces a simplified version of the "Baoyuan Tang" method. I drank the soup and ate the pig's trotters. The original soup turns the original food, and enjoy it!
origin-preserving decoction
By PriceEmard
Steps for origin-preserving decoction
1
Pig's trotters, soybeans, ginger slices.
2
Clean the pig's trotters, put them into the pan with cold water, boil the water and cook for 1-2 minutes to remove the peculiar smell. Remove and rinse with clean water.
3
Add 2000ml of cold water to the purple clay pot, and add ginger slices, soybeans and washed trotters. Because it is soup, pig's trotters must be put into the pot with cold water, so that the soup is nutritious.
4
After boiling, cover and simmer over low heat.
5
When simmer for about 2 hours, remove the lid and skim off the oil.
6
Simmer for about 3.5 hours. At this time, the trotters, soybeans and soup are ready to eat. You can fish out the trotters and soybeans and eat them separately. Filter the soup and serve it. If it feels tasteless, add a little salt to dilute it. There is also a method to extract only the soup and simmer it overnight. After boiling it in the evening, simmer it over low heat and eat it for breakfast the next day. At this time, the trotters and soybeans had been simmered into flocculent shapes. Filter them with a sand net, discard them, and only drink the soup. When stewed in this way, the soup is rich and fragrant. Compared with the authentic Baoyuan Tang, it is not inferior.