After walking through many places, it may be because of the greedy mouth, and the most remembered is the snacks from all over the place. No matter how far I go and how long I have been walking, the feeling of pancakes and green vegetables flowing in my mouth is really unforgettable. It was a taste of home.
Vegetable pancake is a unique flavor of local traditional snacks in Lunan area, with the function of "nutrition, health care, diet therapy" of traditional snacks, young and old, suitable for a long time, most suitable for fast-paced people's instant fast food, commonly known as "Chinese hot dogs", popular in Zaozhuang, Jining, Linyi and other Lunan areas, and later spread around the provinces and cities.
In Zoucheng, it is generally a small stall, a fire, a hammer, a noodle case, several pots, a few small tables and a row of mazas. Some don't even have a table, and a tricycle pulls the whole house together. There are many people who eat, generally a stall and a large group of people. Pancakes are guests come freshly made, the main raw materials are flour, grains, eggs, vegetables, etc., there are many kinds of green vegetables, there are leeks, carrots, water radishes, pumpkin, cabbage, spinach, cabbage, spinach, cabbage, potatoes, tofu, noodles, etc., according to the requirements of the eaters, you can also add eggs or ham sausages, you can also add some peppers, peppers, cumin according to personal taste, pick up the oil pot when the dish is ready to drizzle some oil, generally a pancake in the middle of the cut into two parts. Then use a piece of straw paper directly a packet, supported by a small wooden board, sitting on a small bench, two hands holding the small wooden board while eating and dripping oil, the aroma is fragrant, making people appetite. Vegetable pancakes are nutritious and easy to eat, both as an early snack and as a meal. The browned crisp pancakes with a variety of fresh vegetables have a unique taste and are really delicious, much better than any hamburger. However, the pancakes are suitable for eating on the spot while they are hot, and they will lose their original taste after carrying. Rice soup and porridge seem to be free, generally there are two pancakes on the full, then 1 dollar a roll, plus eggs plus 5 cents, now do not know how much money a roll, a long time did not eat, may have increased the price, right?
In the 1970s, the material life in the countryside around Lunan is still very scarce, the main food of the people is pancakes, the main raw material of pancakes is dried sweet potatoes, the conditions are better can be slightly put a little wheat, just burned pancakes when the hammers are cold, you need to burn the tweezers to rub some oil to easily remove the pancakes from the hammers, so that the pancakes are very thick, wait a while, the pancakes are cold and hard, it is difficult to swallow. Therefore, people call the first few and last few pancakes when baking pancakes as slippery pancakes or slippery pancakes. Such pancakes are difficult to swallow, but it is a pity to lose, the shrewd peasant women will be Cabbage, potato shreds, vermicelli, tofu chopped and added a little lard, put on the pepper noodles, pepper noodles and salt, made the so-called vegetable pancakes, so that not only the slippery pancakes are solved, and the pancakes made are also particularly delicious, so that ten or ten passes a hundred, so the vegetable pancakes spread in every household in the countryside!
At the end of the 1980s, the rural areas had been implementing the responsibility system for co-production contracts for many years, and farmers were busy farming during the busy agricultural season, and when farmers were idle, they had surplus time, and some rural women went to the streets to sell vegetable pancakes to earn some pocket money. A tricycle, a plate of small cake tweezers, a honeycomb stove, a cutting board, several seasonal vegetables, diners ordered on the spot, the owner burned on the spot, a simple livelihood, becoming a beautiful scenery on the streets around Lunan. Many rural people have one more opportunity to earn money for their families, and people have an extra flavor snack in their lives. By the end of the 1990s, even some men had taken to the streets to sell pancakes.
Vegetable pancakes from the farmhouse table of the difficult to climb the elegant hall, to the city's restaurants and star hotels, there are countless shops and stalls operating pancakes on the streets, more than a dozen dishes are selected by diners according to taste, made fresh, hot fried hot to eat, simple and flexible, well received by domestic and foreign gourmets.
In Zoucheng, why is it called an old lady dish pancake? It is said that an old lady has been selling vegetable pancakes for more than 20 years, not only has she also paid nearly 100,000 yuan in foreign debt due to the death of her wife, but also two underage sons have learned from school to start a family, all relying on this vegetable pancake stall. In fact, diners not only value the quality and taste of the pancakes of the old lady's dish, but more importantly, the honest and trustworthy service brand. At present, the old lady dish pancake has become a famous local snack in Zoucheng, and chain stores are all over Zoucheng District.