Mention the eight monsters of Shaanxi, those who have traveled to Shaanxi will definitely be able to say a few words. For example, the house is partially built, and there are stools that do not sit up and squat.
Today we also want to say a sentence, this sentence is also related to eating, that is, Shaanxi pot helmet.
The pot helmet is one of the eight monsters of Shaanxi, which is widely spread, mainly due to the gifts given by the grandmother to her grandson He Miyue, which later developed into a flavored convenience food. The production process of pot helmet is exquisite, and it is known for its "dry, crispy, white and fragrant". Dry and chewy, crispy on the inside and crisp on the outside, white and glowing, mellow and delicious. In the folk called "open eyes pot helmet like pot lid", that is, like a helmet, as the name suggests, also called pot helmet.
When it comes to the history of pot helmets, it is quite long. The earliest can originate in the Zhou Dynasty. According to legend, when King Wen of Zhou was cutting the silk, the pot helmet was used as a ration by some soldiers because it was easy to preserve and carry.
In the Qin Dynasty, the advantages of the pot helmet were carried forward and widely popularized in the military. However, at this time, the pot helmets made by the Qin people were large, thick and porcelain, and the pier cakes distributed by the soldiers when the Qin army marched, one of which weighed five or six pounds, and the diameter of a pier cake was about fifty or sixty centimeters, and the soldier's way of carrying it was also very unique, two pier cakes were in a group, drilling two eyes on each pier cake, tied with a cowhide rope, hung on the neck, and the front chest and the back chest were each built, just like the jacket commonly used by the people in the past.
This special way of carrying also provided shelter for the Qin army to avoid random arrows. Legend has it that during a surprise battle, the mound cake played the role of armor. The arrows fired by the enemy army were stuck on the mound cake, and after being pulled out by the Qin soldiers, they could be used to shoot the enemy army. The pier cake can be used as a shield, which is relished in the Qin army. Later, the soldiers called the mound cake "pot helmet", that is, the hard-faced armor made from the pot. The "pot helmet" has also gained fame from this.
In the Tang Dynasty, the legend of the pot helmet changed again. This legend originates from the joint burial tomb of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian, Qianling. Qianling was built on Liangshan, 3 kilometers north of Qianxian County, and tens of thousands of craftsmen and migrant workers were requisitioned due to the huge project. At that time, there was a young man named Dongwa, who had been dependent on his father since childhood, and when he was requisitioned as a migrant worker, he did work for his father, because the food was often not eaten on time, and he was miserable. One day, he was so hungry that he could not hold on, so he quietly dug a dirt nest on the side of the road, put on his helmet, put the noodles and evenly placed it in the helmet, and burned firewood under the helmet. He was very happy, so he told his companions about this method, and let everyone switch to using an iron pot to burn it, and as a result, he ate crisp, smelled incense, and passed on ten or ten hundred, forming this unique pot helmet bun.
The pot helmet is round in shape, about a foot in diameter, 1 inch thick, and weighs 5 pounds. Take wheat flour, press the stalks and noodles, and bake them in a shallow pan over low heat. The appearance is yellow, the incision is sandy white, crisp and palatable, can be put for a long time, and it is carried
With the social changes, the pot helmet not only carries the traditional culture, but also becomes the daily meal of people in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province. For example, in Shaanxi, Qianxian, Baoji, Wugong, Xi'an and other places have the habit and tradition of making pot helmets, and the more famous ones in Guan are Qianzhou pot helmets, Changwu County pot helmets, Qishan county pot helmets, and Fengxiang County pot helmets. In Xindi County, Shanxi Province, there is another kind of pot helmet, which is semi-circular in shape and has sesame seeds in the middle part.
As a diet, the pot helmet naturally improves with society and living habits. Now the usual practice is flour, water, yeast noodles, alkali noodles, etc. and into dough, placed on the case with wooden bar edge folding edge pressure, in the process of pressing, and then add flour, direct pressure to the surface of the light and moist, when the yeast surface is uniform, divided into a pound of three or two small pieces, and then respectively with the wooden bar side pressure edge rotation, made of round diameter of eight inches, thick six points of chrysanthemum-style round cake, on the hammer baking. After mastering the heat, it takes about ten minutes to bake.
One side feeds the other. A kind of diet, a piece of history, pot helmet with history, with social changes and changes, while witnessing history, but also become a symbol of local culture, accompanied by people, experience every flower blossoming and falling...