Laocheng spicy soup

According to legend, when Ganlong was in Xiajiangnan, he passed by and felt hungry. It happened that an old lady cooked chicken soup by the roadside, and Ganlong sat on the roadside and drank a bowl, which was very fragrant. There were wheat kernels in the soup, but Ganlong didn't know that this wheat kernel was left in the chicken's stomach because it was not washed. So, Gan Long asked the old lady, "What soup is this?" The old lady was old and hard of hearing, so she repeated, "What soup?" Qianlong mistakenly thought that the name of this soup was "what soup". Later, this name was called "Zhetang", and now people in Suixi call it "Zhetang", and because the soup tastes fresh and spicy, some people also call it spicy soup. The spicy soup in the old city is cooked with hens and round bones, plus 12 kinds of ingredients. When cooking, in addition to adding onions and wheat kernels, and adding a lot of ginger, this soup has a spicy taste, which is very fresh. Wake the washed gluten thoroughly in warm water to make the original spongy gluten surface smooth and soft, then pinch it into a small piece and open the pot, and stir it clockwise with chopsticks. At this time, the gluten will be thrown into pieces, such as egg floc, but slightly thicker than egg floc. There is also a certain method to make spicy soup gluten: put flour into a basin, make soft dough with about 1 kg of clear water, and rub the dough with hands dipped in water; Bake for a few minutes, then rub it hard, then gently knead it with clear water, and then wash it with clear water when the surface water is thick. Repeat this several times until all the flour juice in the dough is washed out, and then the gluten is taken out by hand and soaked in a clear water basin. The flour water left after gluten washing is blended into the soup, so that even the wheat kernels cannot be precipitated. Finally, add shredded eel, salt, monosodium glutamate and appropriate amount of white pepper (black pepper is ok, but the boiled soup is black). Adding some sesame oil to the soup is even more delicious.
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