Xiazao broad bean

Dongtai an feng Xiazao Village is a unique specialty. It was listed as a "tribute" in Ming and Qing Dynasties. This kind of broad bean is flat and round in shape, as big as a thumb, with a slight depression in the middle of the bean body, which looks like a cow's foot, and its common name is "flat cow's foot". Strangely, if "Niujiaobian" is planted in another place, it will be separated from Xiazao Village by a ridge, but it will grow beyond recognition, either with small particles or bad taste. At that time, an tang, a temple here, competed to choose "Niujiaobian" douban as the soup base, which was as white as milk and delicious. Li Chunfang Lai 'an Feng, a bachelor of Xinghua, studied under Wang Gen. Whenever green beans are listed, both teachers and students like to take food prizes. Later, when Li Chunfang became prime minister, he paid tribute to the emperor with "flat feet" of broad beans, which was appreciated. From then on, "Xiazao Broad Bean" paid tribute every year, and also assigned 1 to buy and transport green beans and dried beans for imperial meals. This bean was used in Ming and Qing dynasties. At that time, Xiazao Village became the "Royal Bean Garden". It is said that when Jun was the governor of Jiangsu Province, he used this broad bean to entertain Chen Yi and gave it as a gift of local products. Chen Yi specially distributed this gift to the sick and wounded to taste the new and pass it on as a much-told story. Broad beans are peeled, milky white in color, fleshy and sandy after cooking, and fresh and tender to eat. Dried beans can be used as "orchid watercress".
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