Each place has its own special snacks, and in the summer, Hebei people love to eat a snack called grilled cake, which sounds like a pastry, but it is actually a snack similar to cold powder, dipped in vinegar and garlic juice to eat. Grilled cake is made of soba noodles boiled into a paste and then pressed into cakes, when eating, cut into small pieces and put in a bowl, mixed with sesame oil sauce in the summer, appetizing and sweating is particularly enjoyable, in winter, it is cut into slices and fried in hot pot, the taste is different.
It is very popular to make steak cakes in the Gaomiao Temple in Shenze, Hebei, and it is said that everyone in a village can make it, which has a history of more than 100 years. At that time, people made grilled cakes, not only sold in Shenze County, but also popular in Baoding, Shijiazhuang, a steak cake is about two or two, pure handmade, there are also the handprints of the makers, because there is no food additives, it is a real qualification of healthy food, so many foreign tourists also come to visit, a village to do at least five thousand a day.
On the way to the High Temple, we came across a steak cake stall, the owner is a sixty-something uncle, he said that the people in the village go to the big market to sell steak cakes, and they ride a small tricycle around a few nearby villages and they are almost sold out. Uncle from the tricycle took out a round grilled cake, do not need a cutting board directly with a knife in one hand and a hand to take the cut cake cut in the bowl, a 2 yuan, but also poured a cup of dipping sauce, which has sesame sauce, garlic paste, vinegar, sesame oil, etc., Uncle said that the correct meal is to dip in the grilled cake, and the remaining half cup of small ingredients last drink, the taste is endless, think of it and drool.
Don't look at this is just a small village, uncle's equipment can be a lot, chef clothes chef hat looks very clean, small three wheels are also very new, a look is the newly added equipment, uncle said that he from twenty years old to now more than forty years, from a pick to a small three wheels, to feed a family, it is not easy.
The method of this grilled cake is very simple, the main ingredient is buckwheat noodles, plus peppercorn cumin salt and other spices, stir evenly cooked, and mixed into a paste after the dough is kneaded into a round cake, the method is simple and healthy, with garlic paste and other spices after the garlic flavor is full of flavor, soft and chewy, the taste is also good, and eating more buckwheat is also very good for the body, in the summer can be a staple food, but also as a flavor side dish, appetizing and thirst-quenching, it is really not tired.
If you don't have time to go to the temple, you can also try to do it at home!