<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Qishan snacks: rolling dough skin, pot helmet</h1>
Text/Li Xiqi
Qishan is the sacred place of the Zhou people Zhaoji, and throughout the ages, Qishan famous food is popular for its antique flavor and exquisite and unique cooking techniques. Qishan was rich in wheat and of excellent quality, and had been feasted on by King Wen of Zhou, and had treated the Zhuge Shu and Sima Wei armies that had confronted each other on the banks of the Wei River in Wuzhangyuan and Wei River. Most of the people are mainly pasta, everyone is bright-voiced, sexually stubborn, and uses a lot of sounds to speak, such as turtles biting iron shovels. Folk song: Gokyo powder, cheek noodles, put on a pot helmet to open the face, give a county magistrate do not change.
Gokyo powder is Chiyama dough skin. What is "Gokyo powder", there is a county record as evidence: during the Kangxi Dynasty, the imperial chef Wang Tongren made "dough skin" full-time in the imperial dining room of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, so it was called "Gokyo powder". Wang Returned to his hometown in Qishan and received apprenticeship at Bamugou (also known as Bamugou (also known as Bamugou, where Eight Scholars, including Boda were buried during the reign of King Wen of Western Zhou). After Wang's death, this technique was monopolized by the people of Bamugou Village, and it was not taught to those who were not in the village for nearly a hundred years. Later, during the "Tongzhi" and "Guangxu" years, due to the marriage of children and other reasons, the techniques flowed in all directions. In recent years, there have been innovations in the art of making, in addition to the traditional steaming skin, there are still varieties of rolling steaming, steaming and other varieties.
Originally a summer and autumn food, Gokyo powder is now sold throughout the year. In the land of Fengming, men are not divided into strong and strong, and women are not divided into concubines and daughters-in-law, all of them have a taste of food and are happy to be tireless. Yujing powder is ground into powder with high-quality winter wheat essence, and the production process is rigorous from twelve courses, namely: kneading, washing, passing, dian, clearing, hair, mixing, rolling, wiping, steaming, cooling, and stacking. Then cut the dough into thin or wide pieces, mix the right amount of salt water, balsamic vinegar, sesame paste, garlic water, spicy oil, add a little gluten, and stir well in an iron pot. The mixed Gokyo powder tendons are not hard, cotton but not sticky, white is green and white, red is bright red, fragrant, and the lips are salivating. Its characteristics: white, thin, light, soft, tendon, fragrant. In recent years, villagers from all counties in Xifu have gone to Qishan to learn art, broadcast the three Qins, and walked through the prefectures and counties, showing the shape of a spark, radiating and spreading to the surrounding provinces and cities, with a great potential to rush out of the northwest and go to the whole country.
Most of the practitioners of this art are advertised as "Shaanxi noodle skin".
One of the ten monsters in Guanzhong: the pot helmet resembles the pot lid. The cover is flat, the helmet is concave, hard as iron, knocking on it, raining also as an umbrella, can be bulletproof on the battlefield; the skin is thin and thick, the color is yellow and white, the bite is fragrant, and the food is crisp; the toothless concubine is very happy, the bite is crunchy, the chewing is crisp, the food is relished, and the foreigners are miserable.
Since the Tang and Song dynasties, Qiyi has been the place where Xida Lintao must pass through, and the north must pass through Qianlong. Qishan City Duoyi store, merchants come from east to west, north to south, Qishan pot helmet as a past merchant often take the journey to eat dry food away from home. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, people who sell pot helmets have spread all over the county. During the local Republic of China period, Qian'er pot helmets enjoyed a high reputation, and the Yi people competed to buy food. Qian'er pot helmet for Fengming Town Wangjia Lane people Zhao Qian management, the use of exquisite materials, the use of wheat noodles, spices, sesame, clear oil are the top product, the process has always been in accordance with the law, the finished product is soft and palatable, the oil crisp taste.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Dry pot helmet</h1>
Qian'er pot helmet is also called Wenwang pot helmet. A pot helmet is a kind of cake made from wheat noodles and baked on an iron pot. It is named because it resembles the bottom of a pot and is as large as a pot lid. It is not only the staple food of Shaanxi people, but also the dry food that they carry with them when they go out. Speaking of the origin of the Qishan pot helmet, it also dates back to the era of King Wen of Zhou in the era of three thousand years ago, when it is said that King Wen sent troops from Qishan Zhouyuan to cut down the sword, and the pot helmet was the soldier's military food. Therefore, the Qishan pot helmet is also known as the "Wenwang pot helmet".
Qishan pot helmet, known as "dry, crisp, white, fragrant" famous in the West Province. Its production process is: take nine pounds of refined flour and a pound of yeast head mixed well, and then half a pound of cooked lard with two pounds of warm water to open the sprinkling noodles, mix into flour, put on the board, people ride on the top of the wooden bar, do up and down jumps, more often sweat, while pressing the side sprinkled dry flour, into a hard ball, and then sprinkled salt and five-spice powder, so repeatedly pressed, the dough is bright and moist, round cake embryo-like, take the damp cloth cover strict plate, wait for sex, and then roll, sprinkle sesame seeds on the front of the pot. When burning, first use wheat grass to heat the pot, it is better to heat the pot evenly, turn the round cake in the pot three times and turn it twice, the cake surface is slightly yellow, the bottom of the kettle is drawn, and the remaining heat can be baked for ten minutes.
There are two types of Qishan pot helmets, one is "five spices" and the other is "puff pastry". Authentic Qishan puff pastry helmet from flour to processing, all pure handmade craftsmanship, without any additives, and the color yellow skin is crisp, the taste is particularly soft, cotton, but also particularly fragrant, is a real green food.
The pot helmet seller picked up the burden and walked through the streets and downtown, looking for an empty space to stomp down, showing out the long-leaf saber, shaking, and shouting: Pot helmet! Cutting is bevel cutting, half a pound eight two, not bad at all, if you solve the cattle, the edge is more than enough. Few people who sell pot helmets are robbed by miscreants, and the reason is that the cockroach thief is afraid of his sharp blade to seal his throat, and the second is that the pot helmet is a shield for defense, and the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will cover the soil, and it will be indestructible.
In the 1970s, there was an old man in Yangliu Village in Qishan Who had his eightieth birthday, and he specially instructed his children and grandchildren to eat Bizuzi noodles, gokei powder and pot helmets. On this day, the theater box is broadcasting Zhou Enlai's National Day reception in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The old man rubbed the red spicy oil on his mouth with his cuff and said, "Chairman Mao Zhou, the premier of the zhou dynasty, must be a pot helmet." ”
Excerpted from the "Selected Literary Works of Li Xiqi and Prose Volumes" published by Gansu Culture Publishing House in 2002, it was first selected by the Reader's Vernacular Humanities Edition, and then included in the book "Chinese Cuisine", the ten-year essence compiled by the Reader's Vernacular Humanities Edition.
About the Author
Li Xiqi is a native of Yongchuan Town, Qishan County. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a director of the Gansu Writers Association, a director of the Gansu Majiayao Cultural Research Association, a member of the Gansu Calligraphers Association, a member of the Shaanxi Provincial Artists Association, a special researcher of the Institute of Literary Creation of Chang'an University, and one of the first 100 contracted writers of The Reader Magazine. In the 1980s, he began to create amateur literature, and so far he has published more than 4 million words of literary works in newspapers and periodicals such as Kunlun, People's Liberation Army Literature and Art, and Feitian, and published seven works such as Jinchengguan, Dazhouyuan, and Snow in March. The novel "Jinchengguan" won the Yellow River Literature Award in Gansu Province and is known as an encyclopedia of Lanzhou and Gansu culture.