Longevity crisp is a famous traditional snack in Chongqing. Thin as paper, delicious color, pure sweet aroma, crisp and slag, crisp but not broken, good for qi and blood, for longevity unique specialties, in the Qing Dynasty Xianfeng years popular longevity and the Yangtze River area. It is a green, healthy snack food.
Speaking of this thin and crisp, there is also such a story: Still a long time ago, the new bridge of River Street in Changshou County lived with Wang's father and son, and his son Wang Hua was more than 20 years old, and the two of them made a living by opening a fried rice shop. And the east end of the new bridge lives in the Zhu family, there is a beautiful daughter named Zhu Yu, the family opened a snack bar, life is also good. Zhu Yu girl quietly fell in love with the loyal and honest Wang Hua, and no matter how many people came to her door to kiss her, she did not agree, so angry that her father was unhappy.
One summer, the sky was raining heavily, and it happened that a mother and daughter crossed the river and were swept away by the water at the head of the bridge, and Wang Hua's father and son sacrificed their lives to save each other. As a result, the mother and daughter were saved, the king's father was swept away by the water, and Wang Hua was also injured. Coincidentally, the saved mother and daughter were Zhu Yu's aunt and cousin. The Zhu family was very grateful to Wang Hua. Because Wang Hua was injured, his father was killed, and his life was very bleak. Despite his father's objections, Zhu Yu decided to marry Wang Hua, and finally married Wang Hua with the support of his aunt. The two small people also began to operate snacks, because Zhu Yu was clever, Wang Hua was loyal and famous, and the business was good. One year, Wang Hua's birthday, Zhu Yute made a few details, please relatives and friends. During the banquet, everyone spoke highly of Zhu Yu's thin and crisp, and Zhu Yu made some more to give to everyone. Who knows, her thin crisp is suddenly famous, admirers do not know that her shop does not operate thin crisp, but the guests came, Zhu Yu had to make it fresh. Later, Zhu Yuxiao simply took thin crispness as the main business variety, and as a result, the business became better and better, and his reputation became bigger and bigger. Because it is in Changshou County, outsiders call it "longevity is thin and crisp".
The following Xiaobian will briefly introduce the Chongqing longevity thin crisp method, for your reference!
Chongqing longevity thin crisp material
Ingredients: 2.5 kg of flour
Excipients: alum 75 g, peanut oil 4 kg, alkali 35 g
Seasoning: 75 g salt
Chongqing longevity thin crisp production
1, put the salt, alkali, alum together mash, put into the basin with 500 grams of warm water, stir and melt.
2: Pour in 1 kg of flour and warm water (with cool water in summer) and form a dough, put on a panel and press flat.
3: Fold the dough in three folds, then put it back in the basin and cover it with warm cloth for 6 hours (in winter, it should be placed in a warm place).
4: Place it on the panel, cut into 3 cm thick pieces, brush peanut oil on the surface and cut into 100 doughs.
5: Pour peanut oil into the pot and burn until the smoke rises, and roll out the flour one by one (the thinner the better).
6. Pull a rectangular thin dough with two hands that is 33 cm long and 2.2 cm wide, and make some small cracks on the dough.
7, lift the dough with both hands and put it into the hot oil pan to shake it a few times to make it shape, and then put it all into the oil pan on both sides of the frying pan and fry it out, drain the oil and make it.
The above is all the content of the Chongqing longevity crispy method, according to the above steps you can make a longevity crisp with the flavor of Chongqing specialties at home, then don't hurry up!