I am Liqin Debbie, a food lover and creator, as a Yunnan native, I want to introduce a food that has been popular since the anti-war period...
Kunming, Yunnan has a famous snack, looks very "modern", fried yellow candy, oily, round cake, like a spiral, and like a modern girl's coiled bun, it looks very fashionable, its appearance is authentic Chinese pretzel, its taste, but not like Chinese noodles, sweet and rich but quite a bit of Western pastry flavor, in the era of its birth, is quite "modern".
"Modern", which is a transliteration of the English word "modern"), this mille-feuille wheat noodle pretzel cake, which has a combination of English and Kunming names "modern rice dumplings"
The "Modern Cang" was called in the 1940s, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when the American Volunteer Air Corps (Flying Tigers) stationed in Kunming and brought Western cream and bread.
Old Kunming has a kind of food called "pretzels", which is a traditional Chinese noodle, rolling cake, oiling, sprinkling pretzel, baking on the stove. Very unmodified, even a bit old-fashioned.
Inspired, the shop that sells pretzels kneads the dough with milk, sugar, etc. and mixes well, rolls it into thin slices, spreads the cream on the dough, rolls it into strips, evenly cuts it into multiple bars, and then pulls the dough and twists it straight and flattens, rolls it into a cake shape, rolls it into strips, spreads it into a pan and spreads it with cooked rapeseed oil, and burns the raw embryos on both sides of the pan.
Butter, milk as the main ingredient made of modern rice dumplings, because of the modern eating method, unique aroma, so that modern women especially like, in the past Kunming people called beautiful women "modern", "modern" is to see, "rice dumplings" is eaten, the combination of the two, in response to the old saying "beautiful color can be eaten", so it is called modern rice.
In the memory of the old Kunming people, it is a food landscape with stories and historical commemorative significance.
Mr. Wang Zengqi, a famous writer and gourmet, was studying at Southwest United University, and in the article "Cuisine of Kunming", he wrote: "Modern rice dumplings are baked noodle cakes, but they are baked with pine wool (the needles of masson pine), and there is a fragrance of pine needles." This kind of pasta is only sold freshly baked by a family in Fengyi Street. Girls at Southwest United University love to eat. Kunming people call female college students "modern", and this kind of noodle cake is also called "modern rice dumplings", and it has become an official name. ”
In fact, modern rice dumplings appeared in an era that was not modern, but under very heavy conditions, Kunming, a city in the southwest that shouldered the heavy responsibility of the history of the War of Resistance.
<h1>The story of modern</h1> rice
The legend of modern rice is not the same, it has many versions, but the background of the times is the same:
1, the first version: eating rice are beautiful women
Anti-Japanese War, the arrival of the American Flying Tigers, bringing more fashionable fine white flour, butter, white sugar, and the American soldiers are not accustomed to the local taste, near the Southwest United University, there is a small baked cake shop, combined with the method of bread and local pretzels, adding butter, milk and white sugar to make modern rice dumplings, very popular with the American soldiers, and then the streets and alleys, and because the people who bought this kind of burnt cake at that time were dressed very fashionably female compatriots, these female compatriots were called "Modern" Miss, this kind of burnt cake, Since then, there has been a combination of English and Kunming dialect name "Modern Cang"!
2, the second version: selling rice are beautiful women
Who invented it? Legend has it that the beauties of the three streets were made out of:
Legend has it that a handsome bakery lady in Fengyi Street, Kunming, was given the elegant name of "Shanxi Shi" every day when she was selling delicious modern rice dumplings. The soup she made was yellow, crispy, soft, loved by people, and had the reputation of "modern rice dumplings", which swept Kunming.
There is also a legend that there is a beautiful woman in Longxiang Street who opened a small shop of modern rice dumplings, because she is wearing a more fashionable and selling rice dumplings and has a more foreign butter in it, which is very delicious, so it is called modern rice dumplings. Her modern rice dumplings were made of butter that was very rare at the time, fragrant, crispy, soft, crisp, delicious, the price was only equivalent to a bowl of rice noodles; and a free cup of tea, which could be eaten and drunk at the same time, was particularly popular.
There is also a saying that in the 1930s and 40s, it was the anti-Japanese period, as a large rear, the Allies gathered in Kunming, especially the Americans, the Americans ate not very accustomed to the taste of China, there were two sisters of the original Kunming Appeasement Road, on the basis of the local old pretzels in Kunming, combined with the Western pastry practice learned from the Americans, adding milk and butter to and noodles, now hot to sell, very popular, because the two sisters look beautiful, dressed very fashionably, this kind of pie is called "modern" style by the old beauty in Kunming, " The name "Modern Rice Dumpling" comes from this. Since then, it has also been called out in the barracks and Kunming, becoming a brand of Kunming snacks.
3. The third version: the story of the Flying Tigers and the female students
This story is about a female student at Southwest United University, who is beautiful, but her family is very poor, in order to make a living, she took out the butter given to her by the boyfriend of the American Flying Tigers and made it into a very fragrant and foreign flavor, which was sold on the street and immediately caught fire. Because the people who sell the rice dumplings are beautiful, the people who buy the rice dumplings are fashionable, and the rice dumplings themselves are western things that combine Chinese and Western walls, so people call it modern rice dumplings.
<h1>The production of modern rice dumplings</h1>
Method 1: (Pan Version)
Ingredients: fine flour
Accessories: milk powder, cream, baking soda, cooked rapeseed oil
Seasoning: White sugar
make:
1, flour on the board, add milk powder, sugar, baking soda, yeast mix well, knead into a dough, feed for more than 2 hours, until the dough is completely fluffy;
2: Knead the dough and roll out into thin slices; spread the cream on the dough and roll into strips.
3. Knead the noodles evenly and cut them evenly into multiple bars.
4: Pull the dough and twist it straight and flatten it, and roll it out into a cake shape.
5: Take out and plate the raw embryo of the modern rice dumpling under the pot, and when the two sides are golden.
Method 2: (Pan Crispy Version)
Ingredients: 1000 g of refined flour (20 meters), 100 g of milk, 100 g of sugar, 50 g of cream, 5 g of baking powder, 50 g of cooked rapeseed oil.
1: Pour flour onto the dough, add milk, sugar and baking powder to knead into a soft dough (cold water and noodles depending on the dough), let it sit for 10 minutes, and add 20 seeds;
2, press the flat to spread the cream, roll the long strips, press the flat, and then roll into a cake shape, flattened;
3. Soak the dough in corn oil for 15 minutes;
4: Heat a frying pan, add cooked rapeseed oil to the pan, add the cake and fry it on both sides.
Method 3( (Electric Cake File Version)
raw material
Flour: 200g, Yeast: 5g, Milk: 100g, Salt: 0.6g, Sugar: 20g, Butter: 10g
steps
1, the flour + yeast + sugar + milk kneaded into a dough;
2: Add salt and butter to the dough, then knead the dough until smooth;
3. Ferment the dough to 2 times larger, and then discharge the air in the dough;
4: After waking up for 15 minutes, divide the dough into 70 grams (can be divided into 4 pieces).
5. After rolling out the dough, apply a layer of oil, and then roll the dough into long strips from one end;
6. Flatten the strip;
7. Roll up the squashed strip from one end and wake up for 10 minutes;
8: Fry the dough after squashing and thinning, bake the electric cake stall on high and low heat for 3 minutes, then reduce the heat until it is cooked;
Modern Rice Making <h1>Essentials and Tips:</h1>
1, the first method is more loved by catering enterprises, afraid of trouble is also recommended to use, but the best bread brush oil rolls after the refrigerator, refrigerated for twenty-four hours after the stereotype, sliced and fried, the finished product has a good effect.
2, the third alternative is less sugar, less oil taste is relatively light, adhering to the health of the person to choose;
3. Add an appropriate amount of milk powder and condensed milk when making noodles, and the milk flavor is more fragrant;
4, under the pot system, one side of the slightly yellow set can be turned over, two sides of the golden, change to medium-low heat, not easy to burn.
<h1>Modern and more modern system:</h1>
Modern rice dumplings can also be made into puff pastry or stuffing, and the taste changes more.
Dried nuts, dried fruits, dried roses, dried osmanthus flowers or sprinkled with cheese and meat floss can be added to make the taste richer and more stylish.
Fried modern rice dumplings, put on the plate, like petals as delicate blooming, roasted modern rice dumplings pull the "noodle head" can be eaten all the way to the "end of the noodles", a circle of circling, the color is golden and oily, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, the aroma of milk, butter is refreshing, not to mention the crisp skin of the entrance, the other parts are soft and easy to chew, the taste is sweet but not greasy, and there is a creamy fragrance. Modern rice dumplings have both the aroma of traditional Chinese salt shortbread and the richness of Western pastries. At that time, it was quite foreign, and the taste was also very modern, and people are still addicted to its aroma.
Eating modern rice is like meeting a fashionable and beautiful woman, and its taste is wonderful.
On the special day of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Kunming's modern rice dumplings represented the spirit of international integration and unity against Japan: Canadian flour, American butter, Cuban sugar, Chinese pretzels and fashionable beauties, all of which were kneaded into small dough cakes, emitting aromas and charming charms.
Such a delicious food that carries historical memory, do you say it is modern or not?
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