Today, I will share with you the authentic Leshan flavor - Ye Erzhuo, a traditional flavor snack throughout the urban and rural areas of Sichuan, a delicacy that only every household will make during the Spring Festival.
The custom of making leaf rakes during the Spring Festival has been spread in the Leshan area for thousands of years, whenever it enters the lunar month, every family has the custom of making leaf rakes, and even competes with who does more and eats longer, people will use leaf rakes and bubbles as gifts from relatives and friends. Leaf rake can be used as an early snack, as a snack, or even as a staple food.
Ye'ershu is a delicate small snack from Ganwei County, Leshan, paying attention to the "three non-stick", that is, "non-stick mouth, non-stick leaves, non-stick teeth", with glutinous rice and rice as the skin, the filling is salty and sweet.
There are two kinds of sweet and salty leaves, the sweet filling is bean paste plus walnuts or peanuts and other nuts, most of which are added with brown sugar on the surface, which is more delicious; salty is minced meat and sprouts. Fragrant and moist, mellow and sweet, lotus flavor, salty and delicious, non-stick teeth. Ye Erzhu is easy to carry, suitable for young and old, long storage time, heating for a few minutes can be eaten, is a rare natural delicacy, green food, is one of the famous snacks in Sichuan.
Local people later also learned to do and constantly innovated, divided into sweet and salty two kinds, not to mention, but also added different flavors of the core. Until now, the process has reached more than six steps, and there are more than ten kinds of raw material formulas. Many foreigners are full of praise for eating it, and they learn to make it themselves after they go back, but it is always not as good as the local taste. Later, everyone understood that there was no local "rice leaf" and the reason for the high-quality rice and water and soil.
Ye Ercang was originally called "Noontime Rice", and there is another story in this!
Legend has it that there is a Ye'er shu shop in Leshan, which is not eager to sell it every day after making it well, and must wait until noon, when the county grandfather retreats from the hall and rings three drums before selling, hence the name. Leshan's pickle and frozen rice are the "brothers and sisters" of Ye ErCang, which has a filling, while the bubble rice is fillingless, but it has been fermented and tastes softer; the frozen rice dumpling is added with lard oil on the basis of the bubble rice, and the taste is more crisp and soft than the bubble rice.
Leshan people know that the most famous seller of Ye Ercang is: Que Ji Shu Shop. It's been around for over thirty years! The types and tastes of rice in the shop are very rich, with more than 30 varieties of leaf rice, bubble rice, frozen rice series, glutinous rice series, japonica rice series, corn series, etc. From the beginning of pushing the cart to the streets, to now there are more than twenty branches. Walking on the street of Leshan, randomly find a person to ask que ji shop, nine out of ten people can say where there is a branch of que ji nearby.
Therefore, now, we don't have to wait until the New Year to eat leaf dumplings, and we don't have to worry about not finding a store.
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