Chapter 556: Three Plains Knotweed Candy

The bread is baked with the finest white flour and must be broken into soybean-sized pieces by the customer so that the juice can be soaked. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info can be formulated with the above three semi-finished products. The steamed bun bowl enters the kitchen, the chef takes several slices of cut cooked sausage, belly, pork, and chicken, neatly arranges them on the steamed bun, with water vermicelli, and repeatedly soaks them in boiling boiling soup three or four times, and then adds monosodium glutamate, garlic sprouts, chili peppers, coriander, and adds soup, which becomes a big meat gourd head.

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Xi'an people eat gourd heads have their own love, and young and middle-aged men like meat and soup fat, spicy taste, in order to get addicted to meat; Women like to go alone with clear soup, which is good for the intestines and refreshing, in order to taste its fragrance; The elderly like the beauty of shape, color, quality and taste. It is said that the intestines absorb the essence of the five grains, the sex is warm and good at replenishing, regulating the vitality, just like the "licorice" in the medicine, with the heat that is hot, with the cool that is cool, the winter can warm the stomach and strengthen the intestines, and the summer can clear the heat and refresh the intestines.

Noodles roe, named after the image of whitebait. One of the traditional snacks in Shaanxi Province, it is more like tadpoles, it is made of buckwheat noodles, off-white, is a very ordinary cold food. Because it is both thick and thin, it always brings some soup and eats it cold, and the taste is not as sweet as ordinary cold drinks, but sour, salty, and spicy.

Whenever there is a temple fair in the town, there are always a few food stalls selling noodles and fish roe on the side of the street. Between the stalls, there is a small table, there are three or five small benches, and a chopstick cage is placed on the table, which is full of wooden chopsticks. On one side of the small table, there are two large basins, covered with lids, one for the noodle caviar, and the other for the well water mixed with black vinegar, soy sauce, garlic paste, chili sauce, sesame paste, sesame oil, minced salted carrots, and minced pickled cabbage. When eating, use a colander to scoop the noodle roe out of the basin, control the water, put it in a bowl, and then use a spoon to scoop it into the delicious well water.

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The recipe for the noodles is as simple as thinning the soba noodles with water, pouring them into a colander and draining them into a pot of boiling water, and sometimes, you can use the right hand to hold the spoon and pat your right wrist with your left hand to leak the buckwheat batter into the boiling water. When cooked, scoop it up with a colander, soak it in cold water, and then soak it in the well water.

This is the authentic way to eat Shaanxi noodle roe, but using raw water to mix soup and instant noodle fish does not meet the hygienic requirements, and it is ideal if you change to cold boiled water.

When it comes to cold food, I can't help but think of people living in big cities, and their blessings are really not small. In summer, there are countless cold drink shops on the street, with ice cream, orange water, and ice cream. However, in Xingping County, Shaanxi Province, there are still many farmers on the plateau who do not use electric lights, and when they live in caves, they use "foreign oil lamps" for lighting at night. In the summer, there is no ventilation in the cave, dry and hot kang people, working during the day, sweating like pulp, it is more difficult to drink cold drinks, and can only eat a cold food called "noodle fish roe".

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Sanyuan knotweed candy is one of the traditional and precious snacks in Sanyuan area of Shaanxi Province. It is in the shape of a round drumstick, generally light, and the golden skin is evenly covered with a layer of white sesame seeds; When you bite into it, there is a snow-white and delicate honeycomb candy heart inside. It is ranked with Jilin Fuyuan Pavilion knotweed candy and Henan Anyang knotweed candy, which are the three famous knotweed flowers in China.

Sanyuan knotweed candy has a long history, both taste and shape, and sells well. Sanyuan knotweed candy, originated in Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province, was born in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, and has a history of more than 490 years. According to legend, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, every wax moon, the hawkers in the south used the high-quality Jiang rice (i.e. glutinous rice) that was abundant in the local area to make rice cakes and transported them to Sanyuan and Jingyang to sell.

Jiang rice belongs to a kind of glutinous rice, glutinous rice is divided into indica glutinous rice and japonica glutinous rice, indica glutinous rice is Jiang rice, the shape is slender: japonica glutinous rice is round glutinous rice, also called round river rice. Jiangmi is slender in shape, glutinous rice is short and thick, and it is one of the grains that are often eaten at home. Because of its fragrant and sticky texture, it is often used to make flavored snacks and is deeply loved by everyone. During the New Year's holidays, many places have the custom of eating rice cakes. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival eaten by people is also made of Jiang rice noodles.

Jiangmi is rich in B vitamins, which can warm the spleen and stomach and nourish the central qi. It has a certain relieving effect on spleen and stomach deficiency, poor appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea. Jiangmi has an astringent effect, and has a good therapeutic effect on frequent urination and self-sweating, but its sex is sticky and difficult to digest, so it should not be eaten too much at one time, and it should be eaten after heating. The elderly, children or the sick should use with caution. Rice rice cakes, whether sweet or salty, are high in carbohydrates and sodium, and should be treated in moderation for people with diabetes, overweight or other chronic diseases such as kidney disease and hyperlipidemia.

At the end of the year, it is inconvenient to bring back the leftover rice cakes, so they are stored in the homes of relatives and friends, and hung upstairs to let them dry. After the following year, it is mashed, shaped into sticks, fried in oil and then sold. This kind of aged cake in the next year, after the wind and dew, and crushed and into a stick, fried in oil, the inside is fluffy, the volume is expanded, it tastes crispy and sweet, it has a different flavor, people call it "marshmallow". Over time, people gradually explored and summed up a set of methods for making marshmallows.

Add a certain amount of soybean milk to the rice flour to make it more fluffy and soaky, and stick sesame seeds or white sugar on its surface. The eater praised each other: "Bureaucracy, Guanzhong dialect, the meaning of "good", the bureaucracy is too much!" Therefore, it is also called "wingman candy". In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Beijing, and the Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with Emperor Guangxu. The local officials collected delicacies and offered "wingman candy" as a local precious food, which was greatly appreciated by the Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi saw that the shape of the "winged flower candy" resembled a kind of knotweed fruit she had seen on the grassland, and found it interesting, and took its homonym, so she said: "Just call it knotweed candy, which is both figurative and chic."

Later, it was renamed "knotweed candy" and listed as a tribute. Qing Kangxi Jinshi Wenyi, in the "Memorial Hall Posthumous Manuscript" has a poem praised: "The nature of ice and snow, the mind is like a valley, the color is like a lotus root, and the flavor is a Weng."

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Mihara knotweed candy is named for its large and fluffy shape, which resembles knotweed flowers. Whether it is used to entertain guests, or to give gifts to relatives and friends, it is called high-quality food, and enjoys a high reputation inside and outside the province.

In addition to being sold inside and outside the province and Beijing, Guangzhou and other places, it is also exported to Hong Kong and other places. Since the reform and opening up, Sanyuan County has produced about 1,500 tons of knotweed candy every year, which sells well in more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. In 1985 and 1987, it was successively awarded the title of "Shaanxi Province Quality Product" and "Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Quality Product", and in 1988 and 1992, it won the "Silver Award of the First China Food Expo" and the "Gold Award of China Special Economic Zone Achievement Expo". Pu Jie, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the younger brother of the last emperor Pu Yi, tasted Nanmao brand knotweed candy and wrote the seven Daewoo of "knotweed candy court food".

Mihara knotweed candy is wrapped in two kinds of white sugar powder and sesame seeds. It is made of fresh and high-quality glutinous rice, high-quality soybeans, sugar, vegetable oil, etc., accompanied by cooked sesame seeds. The processing process is made by 24 processes, such as material selection, washing, soaking, grinding, steaming, dough, rolling, rubbing, billet, drying, storage, billet, oil immersion, frying, pouring and hanging skin. Generally, billets are made in winter and finished products are processed in all seasons. It takes about half a year from feeding to finished products. The finished product is cylindrical, loose, golden skin, white flesh, silk-mesh, sweet and crispy, soft and easy to melt.