What is a scorpion?

Sheep scorpion is a Shandong dish, and its main ingredient is a complete sheep spine with tenderloin and spinal cord. Because of its similar shape to scorpion, it is commonly known as sheep scorpion. Scorpions are low in fat, cholesterol, protein and calcium. Is easy to absorb, and has that effect of nourishing yin and tonify kidney, caring skin and strengthening yang. It is often used to make broth hotpot, which tastes delicious.

Sheep scorpion has the reputation of "king of calcium supplementation". Scorpion stew for a long time is beneficial to promote the absorption of calcium and achieve the effect of calcium supplementation. Therefore, eating by the elderly can alleviate osteoporosis; Eating it in middle age can beautify the face; When eaten by teenagers, it can strengthen the brain and increase the height, and has obvious curative effect on symptoms such as chronic colitis, gastritis and tracheitis. It can refuel and charge the drowsiness of working in study fatigue, which is an excellent delicacy for all ages and can be enjoyed in all seasons.

According to legend, this dish was invented by Su Shi, a writer in the Song Dynasty. When Su Shi was demoted to Huizhou, the local market was sparse and commodities were scarce, but he killed a sheep every day. Because Su Shi is a prisoner on death row, he dare not compete with local dignitaries for good mutton.

So Su Shi privately told the man who killed the sheep to leave him the backbone of the sheep that no one usually wanted, with a little mutton between these bones. After Su Shi took it home, he cooked the sheep's spine first, then poured it on the bones with wine, added a little salt, baked it with fire, and ate it after the flesh and blood were slightly burnt.

Su Shi picks minced meat among sheep bones all day, claiming to eat seafood, shrimps and crabs. Su Shi ate the spine of sheep every once in a while and made fun of his younger brother Su Zhe in a letter at home. You have a good life, eating and drinking at public funds for many years, gnashing your teeth, but you can't touch sheep bones. How can you understand this delicious food?

At the end of the letter, Su Shi said humorously that this way of eating is good, but every time he picks out the meat on the bone, the dogs around him are very unhappy.

As the saying goes, "Eating pigs is better than eating cows, and eating cows is better than eating sheep." Scorpion is a fine product among sheep. Its meat is tender but not greasy, its bones are soft but not slippery, and its soup is fragrant but not greasy. People who like to eat meat can relieve their appetite without gaining weight, and they are rich in nutrition without increasing fat. Therefore, obese people, people with high blood pressure and high blood lipids should eat sheep and scorpions, not pigs and cows. Moreover, Chinese medicine claims that "it has the special effects of nourishing yin and clearing heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, supplementing calcium and benefiting qi." From the point of view of nutrition, scorpion has the effects of nourishing yin and clearing heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, supplementing calcium and benefiting qi, and strengthening body.