"Stuffed Skin of Northwest Snacks"
My niece asked me: When did I write about the stuffed skin? Answer: I write it when I have thoughts. However, I have not thought about it for many days. In the past, when I was hungry, I had a food in my mind that I missed very much, so I remembered it. But today, although hungry but not thoughtful, then it should be written by the niece about the hometown cuisine - stuffed skins.
In the Northwest, there is a food called skin, also known as cold skin. It is made of wheat noodles or rice as the main ingredients, and is made into a cold mixture with a thin soft sticky aroma. The skins are mainly divided into stuffed skins, hand-rolled dough skins and rice dough skins. Most of Qingxin, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Ningxia mainly eat stuffed skins; the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi and the Tianshui region of eastern Gansu also have the habit of eating hand-rolled dough skins; while the Hanzhong and Ankang regions of southern Shaanxi eat rice noodle skins because of their abundant rice production. Of course, there are others in addition, such as Qinghai's barley cold skin and Shanxi's Lüliang's buckwheat bowl, although similar in shape but slightly niche, not to mention the table.
Stuffed skin is a more common kind of noodle in the northwest region, the method is: white noodles and dough, put it in the basin with water before the dough is slightly awake, use your hands in the basin opposite the dough to grab and pull, so that the dough into a flocculent, water into a batter, the pot of flocculents out of the steamer steamed is the gluten. The remaining batter in the basin is spread thinly and evenly in a kind of vessel similar to a cake bell made of black and white tin, and steamed in a steamer, the steamed dough skin is taken out and cooled, and cut into a finger-wide and narrow strip, accompanied by a small amount of vegetables, and eaten cold with the sauce. The hand-rolled dough is a softer white noodle, rolled out into a very thin pancake with a rolling pin, steamed in a pot and eaten in a strip of cold, which is harder than the stuffed skin. Rice noodles, on the other hand, are ground into a pulp, steamed thinly with bells, and eaten cold in strips. Whether it is stuffed skin, hand rolled dough skin, or rice noodle skin, it can be used as a snack between meals or as a wine dish.
The five northwestern provinces all have the habit of eating stuffed skins. The main ingredients are basically the same, but the auxiliary materials and cold mix sauces have their own characteristics. Most areas are served with blanched bean sprouts, soy sauce rice vinegar and oil spicy seeds cold mixed, but also added to the blanched small rapeseed, spinach. And Ningxia's juice has added one more thing - yellow mustard, and the food is even more flavorful.
When I was in school in Xi'an, the person who ate the most was rice noodles. Rice noodles mixed with soy sauce rice vinegar and bright red chili oil will increase appetite and taste. Not only delicious but also inexpensive. At that time, the income was not high but the price was also low, and 1 cent and 5 cents could get a bowl of food, which was very affordable. The most famous thing in Shaanxi is the Qinzhen rice noodle skin.
Hand-rolled dough skin is the food that has been tasted when guests have traveled to Qinlong in the past ten years, although it is also delicious, but it is not my favorite food. Only yinchuan's stuffed skin is my hometown cuisine that I have loved to eat since childhood.
I have a good memory of nearly fifty years of brewing skins in my hometown. When he was young, his family was poor, and he rarely sold and ate it, and most of them ate for themselves. The skins eaten by Yu when he was young were all cooked by Yu's second sister. The second sister is nine years old, smart and capable, and when Yu was in elementary school, the second sister was already working, and when the second sister took turns to rest, Yu was cooking. The second sister makes leather, Yu often leans around, or lays hands, or observes and learns, so she has a lot of understanding of the craft. Every time you eat stuffed skin at home, because of its delicious taste, Yu will always eat accumulated food, and the gluttony will appear.
I haven't eaten the delicious stuffed skin cooked by the second sister for more than forty years. Thoughts...
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