Every time I go home to Yan'an Railway Station, I will hear the sound of selling long pancakes, they are all industrious and generous sub-elders, in order to maintain their lives, many people will do pancake business. Pancakes are also a delicious snack for Shaanxi people, spread throughout Shaanxi, but in the Shaanxi region, the pancakes in northern Shaanxi are the best and most famous.
People living in the mountains of northern Shaanxi, there are more buckwheat plants, buckwheat is an annual herb, short growth period, strong stress resistance, extremely hardy barren, buckwheat has a wide variety of types, with bitter buckwheat has the most nutritional value. It can be ground into flour, and buckwheat flour is the ingredient needed to make long pancakes. Zichang pancakes are not only the most famous traditional snacks of Zichang, but also loved by people in other regions. Zichang County is also a model county town for double support in the country. Originally an Anding County, it was renamed Zichang County in honor of the revolutionary martyr Xie Zichang, and it is the hometown of Comrade Xie Zichang, which is the foothold of the Central Red Army's Long March and the starting point of the Anti-Japanese Crusade, known as the "Red Capital" and "General County".
In the zhouyuan area of the hometown, wheat corn is mainly planted, and pancakes are mainly made of wheat noodles, but the wheat noodles are not as good as the long pancakes, and the long pancakes are as thin as paper, silver and white, and can be made of large cakes and small cakes according to different tastes. I have a long colleague, and I am a unit to work, his aunt just opened a shop next to the Yan'an Railway Station to sell long pancakes, the shop name is Yang Da Pancakes, the guests are yingmen, the business is booming, her pancakes have a wide variety of pancakes, there are dried tofu pancakes, hot tofu pancakes, cold vegetable pancakes, crispy meat pancakes and chicken pancakes. Freshly sold to ensure that passengers can eat the freshest, hottest pancakes, eaten with garlic juice, spicy oil, etc., mellow, sour and spicy flavor. I often go there to buy it because it tastes good and I don't get tired of eating for a long time.
The raw material of the pancake is buckwheat, buckwheat should be peeled to form a grits, or stirred with soba noodles with water to form a paste, but also filtered and spread on the iron chain, the spread of the pancakes into a circle, the size of the bowl, toughness. Different from the Guanzhong region, the sub-long pancakes are eaten with cold dishes, stir-fried vegetables, pork head meat, chicken, hot tofu and dried tofu, etc., and the types of zichang pancakes are various, so the price is also different, when eating with garlic juice, chili oil sesame seeds, etc., there are also tomato sauce in northern Shaanxi, depending on personal taste. In addition to being enjoyed by the people of Zichang during the New Year's Festival, pancakes are also a must-have delicacy when entertaining distant guests.
The long pancakes made of soba noodles belong to the multigrain pancakes, which have high nutritional value, and have the effect of "relieving heat and reducing three highs", which plays a very important role in the health of the human body. However, although soba noodles are good, but not everyone is suitable for eating, Li Shizhen once said: "Spleen and stomach deficiency, poor digestion, for some people with allergies should not eat." Whenever I think of zichang pancakes, I am hungry and drooling, and I am even more reminded of the revolutionary martyr Xie Zichang, in the battle of the estuary, Xie Zichang disregarded his personal safety, and in the front-line command operation, unfortunately his chest was hit by enemy bullets and he was seriously injured. He suppressed the severe pain and continued to command until the final victory of the battle. At that time, due to limited medical conditions in Yan'an, his injuries continued to worsen and eventually died. Nowadays, the delicious flavor snack of the long pancake is inseparable from the hard work and hard work of the industrious and simple chief.
About the Author:
Qiang Jinghui, (1983) Shaanxi Baoji Fufengren, enlisted in the army in 2001, discharged in 2013, employee of the first branch of Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Pipeline Transportation, party member, like to sing, walk, love life; the work "What is most important in the face of the epidemic" was selected into the Baoji Education System "Poverty Alleviation and Anti-epidemic" Story Call for Excellent Works "Light up the Lamp of the Soul", a registered member of Yanhuang Literature Society.