Shanxi stone cake
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Also many years ago, traveling to Shanxi, many attractions near there is a slightly larger than the burnt cake, slightly bumpy small cake, a stack of a few, sealed in a bag for sale. We bought a few bags and picked them up, because of the temptation of each meal with specialty rice, put it in the bag and forgot about it. It was not until climbing to the top of the Mianshan Peak Jiegong Ridge, there were no merchants, and the belly was empty, that it came in handy. How can you feel that stone cake is so delicious when you are hungry? In the blink of an eye, I ate several of them. Eat to the end, only chew slowly, taste different: the entrance is slightly fragrant and chewy, just eat a little water is full, very suitable for hunger and short food.
Later, when strolling around the market, a middle-aged couple made stone cakes on the spot to attract our attention, and we watched carefully, only to see that there was a hot iron pot sitting on the briquette stove under their eyes, which had a half pot of small pebble-like black stones bubbling in the heat transfer of the stove, and the black stones were polished under the constant flipping. The man kneads the dough and rolls the well-fed dough into thin shapes on the board, and the woman places them on a hot stone in a pot. After a little heat, the cake is also covered with stones. After only a few minutes, the stone cake was ripe, clipped out, and it was all bumpy round stone prints. The baked pies are golden in color and give off a seductive noodle aroma. In the railway station, supermarket, street, and temple entrance in Jinzhong, you can see people selling stone cakes, and I always have to appreciate and "study" it.
It turned out that stone cakes were popular in the Fenyang area of Shanxi,
It is a traditional famous spot in Shanxi, a traditional Chinese branded food. Stone cake is also known as stone bread, called stone cake in the Tang Dynasty, called natural cake in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has obvious ancient stone cooking relics.
The Yellow River human use of fire has experienced a long historical process, and the emergence of stone cooking should be said to have a certain relationship with the consumption of grain food such as human grain and wheat. This cooking method mainly uses stone transfer, evenly with fire, and its cake taste is crisp, crisp, salty and fragrant.
Look at the literal introduction: the main raw materials of stone cake are white noodles, sesame oil, and yeast. Add some alkali juice to make. It is not only crispy and salty, resistant to storage, but also unique in production. Before making, wash the stones, pour them into an iron pot, and rub some oil (to prevent the stones from sticking to the dough). The use of cloth heat is mild, heat dissipation is slow, heat transfer is slow, control the heat, stone cooking into cake.
Northern valley feeding began in ancient times. The ancestor of the Yellow River people, shennong, pioneered agricultural production and taught people to eat grain. The ancestors invented the method of "burning valley on the stone". Ancient humans used nature to bake food in the simplest way.
When I visited the Qiao family compound in Qixian County and the history of the development of Jin merchants such as Rishengchang and Daju in the ancient city of Pingyao, I was impressed by the stone cake, why? Only in the history of Qiao Guifa, the founder of the Qiao family compound, who began to walk in the west mouth, exercised camel reins, pulled camels, and tossed around in the endless desert grassland, from the history of life without a living - wandering outside the mouth - shop guys - operating treasurers - Qixian rich people, it is not difficult to see that the stone cakes that are easy to carry, have a long shelf life, and are suitable for long journeys have made great contributions to the glory of their families and the prosperity of Shanxi's economy! To this day, it is still loved by the people and continues to enjoy the honor of history and the times. This is also the reason why it continues to this day and still occupies an important place in The Snacks of Shanxi!
