Who is Dongpo Elbow related to?

Dongpo Elbow is related to Su Shi.

Dongpo Elbow is named for the great literary figure Su Shi (Su Dongpo). When Su Shi was relegated to Huangzhou (present-day Huanggang City, Hubei Province), he found that pork was cheap, but the people did not pay attention to the way of eating, so he introduced his hometown of Meishan, Sichuan Province, bladder stewing method, and later people will be stewed in the Meishan folk traditional method of pork bladder meat known as "Dongpo elbow".

Dongpo elbow cooking techniques originated from Su Shi's "Ode to Pork", which recorded "net wash pan (pot), less water, firewood fomentation flames do not. Wait for it to ripen and don't rush it, it's beautiful when the fire is enough. Get up in the morning to play two bowls, full of their own home, Jun Mojiao" account, that is, referring to Su Shi in Meishan on the pork elbow with charcoal simmering bladder, slow stewing over a low fire to stop the soup boiling, reduce evaporation of the cooking technique.

Fire Requirements:

Pure Dongpo elbow cooking techniques on raw materials and fire, etc. are quite concerned about the whole set of techniques from the selection of elbow, cooking, steaming, adding ingredients, and then to the finished product, the whole process must be purely manual operation, and only use the upper part of the pig leg, cleaned and put into the stew in the water, stewed to the color of the fire of the eight, the elbow will be fished out, and then on the steamer. Steamer.

After two degreasing, to Dongpo elbow "fat and not greasy, (fire ba pa) and not rotten, color and aroma shape, the entrance of the traditional pure taste. Meishan Institute of Cultural Relics Protection experts believe that the Dongpo elbow production techniques have a long history, from the initial Su Shi written records evolved out of the reality of ordinary dishes, but also from a single dish techniques evolved into folklore.

Now it is not only a "history of food customs", but from a deep level reveals the change and evolution of national food culture. From another perspective, it records the unique charm of an ordinary dish sublimated into a cultural phenomenon, which is of great literary value to the study of China's Song Dynasty pork knuckle cooking techniques and the cultural phenomenon of pork knuckle food customs.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Dongpo Elbow