When it comes to cold food, people who don't feel like they live in big cities are really blessed. In the summer, there are countless cold drink shops on the street, including ice cream, orange water, and ice cream. However, in Xingping County, Shaanxi Province, many farmers on the plateau still have not used electric lamps, and when they live in cave dwellings, they use "foreign oil lamps" at night to illuminate them. In the summer, the cave is not ventilated, dry and hot kang people, daytime labor, sweat like pulp, want to drink cold drinks is more difficult, can only eat a cold food called "noodle caviar". Noodle roe, named after the image silver fish. It is more like a tadpole, made of soba noodles, off-white, and a very common cold food. Because it is both thick and thin, always bring some soup, let it cold to eat, the taste is not as sweet as the general cold drink, but sour, salty, and spicy. At the temple fair in the town, there are always a few stalls selling noodles and caviar on the street. In the stall room, there is a small table, there are three or five small benches, and there is a chopstick cage on the table, which is full of wooden chopsticks. On the side of the small table, there are two large pots covered with lids, one pot of noodle caviar, and the other pot of well water mixed with black vinegar, soy sauce, garlic paste, chili sauce, sesame paste, sesame oil, salted carrots, and pickled cabbage. When eating, use a colander to scoop the noodle roe from the basin, control the water, put it in a bowl, and then use the spoon to scoop the good well water. The method of dough roe is very simple, dilute the soba noodles with water, pour them into a colander, leak into the boiling water pot that is rolling, and sometimes, you can hold the spoon with your right hand and slap your right wrist with your left hand to leak the soba batter into the boiling water. To cook, scoop up with a colander, soak in cold water, and then change the well water to soak. This is the authentic way to eat Shaanxi noodle roe, but the use of raw water with soup, instant noodle fish does not meet the sanitary requirements, if replaced by cold boiling water is more ideal.
Hemp food is a kind of noodle product, the main raw materials are flour, diced meat, soybeans, dried tofu, green vegetables or diced chicken, diced ham, peanuts and rice and other ingredients. Use your thumb to roll the dough into a hollow dough roll in the middle of a core shape, and then braise it with a piece of stir-fry. Its main ingredients are integrated, the tendons are tough and smooth, and the local atmosphere is strong. The production of hemp food is very simple, there is no strict requirement for ingredients, it can be refined or coarse, it can be meat and vegetables, and ordinary families often use this to adjust the diet pattern.
It is named because Empress Bo, the mother of Emperor Wen of Han, liked to eat this cake, and later introduced it to the people. The above flour and lard are the main ingredients, which have the characteristics of burnt skin, crispy, layered meat, soft and delicious, and the oil is not greasy.