Hello everyone, I am Tianyu, I just posted a picture on the headlines, wrote a Guanzhong steamed bun culture, two days ago and took a video of the production of pot helmets in Huashan area, was loved by a message, some friends left messages, private messages to exchange pot helmets, so I will write a picture for Huashan pot helmets today, focusing on the production method of Huashan pot helmets, as well as the culture of Guanzhong pot helmets.
After watching my pot helmet video, the friends said in a private message: "Isn't the pot helmet just a white ji cake with meat sandwich in Shaanxi?" "This Tianyu said, it is really not, the meat sandwich bun of the baiji cake, lao Tong Guan cake, belongs to the cake sub-category, his production method is, first burned and then baked, the pot helmet in the Huashan area, is branded out, the local called pot helmet bun, people classify it as steamed bun, the steamed bun, compared to the steamed bun, less water, easy to preserve, eat chewy.
In addition to the chewy food in Guanzhong, so that people can go out to carry it conveniently, it also has the function of people in Guanzhong to communicate with each other as a gift, such as the full moon of relatives' children, bringing a pot helmet to the child when walking relatives, the elderly to live, to bring a pot helmet, etc., the early formation of this tradition, the reason is that, first, the pot helmet compared to the steamed bread economic value is high and affordable, second, the pot helmet is round, representing happiness, consummation, meaning beautiful, so the pot helmet in the Huashan area has become a good gift for visiting relatives and friends.
The following Tianyu introduces the production method of shimonoseki Zhonghua Mountain Pot Helmet:
Ingredients: 2 pounds of medium gluten flour, 2 eggs
Seasoning: salt, peppercorn powder, pepper salt, cumin, chili noodles (Qin pepper)
Preparation steps:
Step 1: and noodles, 1, prepare 2 pounds of flour (about 3 cakes), beat two eggs into the flour, 480 grams of water, 5 grams of salt, 5 grams of baking powder (pay attention to the use of the bag, choose the green onion cake on the line), prepare about 30 ° warm water and noodles in winter, cool water in summer can be, gradually add water, first mix the flour into a flocculent, then knead the flour into a ball, knead for 5 minutes, put in the basin, cover with plastic wrap, wake up the noodles for 20 minutes; 2, after waking up, knead the dough (rub oil on your hands to prevent sticking), Put into the basin, cover with plastic wrap, put the basin in a pot with 40 ° C warm water, cover the waking noodles, wake up for an hour, wake up to time, the volume of the noodles is twice as large as before waking up, use your hands to ramen, the noodles are silk mesh-like, the noodles are good; 3, rub a small amount of oil on the hand, smear a small amount of oil on the board, divide the dough evenly into three pieces, take out a piece, slightly gently exhaust, knead the dough into a round dough by the way, and then use a rolling pin to roll out the dough into a round pancake (half a centimeter thick), sprinkle the crepes with an appropriate amount of salt, cumin, a small amount of oil (like to eat pretzel, Chili noodles, green onions can be sprinkled), and then rolled up, layer by layer, rolled into strips, rolled up the back seam upwards, flattened the noodles with the palm of your hand, rolled up from one end, rolled tightly, rolled flat on the board, and then slowly pressed the noodles down with the palm of your hand, pressed to the thickness of the circumference, thin inside, pressed the noodles to 1 to 2 times larger, and then used the rolling pin to roll up and down slowly (to prevent retraction, forming gluten), rolled into the size of a hammer (pan), and then smeared a small amount of oil on the dough cake, and then woke up for 3 or 5 minutes, you can bake the cake;
Step 2: Prepare the tweezers, boil on high heat, boil hot, smear a small amount of oil, oil heat, turn the fire into a small fire (gas stove, inner circle maximum fire), put in the waking dough cake, cover the lid, one-sided burner for 5 minutes to turn over, after both sides are burned, and then turn back and forth, burn for 3 minutes, just fine;
Step 3: After baking, put it on the grate, cover it with a clean linen cloth, use the residual temperature to let the cake cook for a while, you can cut into pieces, sandwich vegetables, stir-fry green peppers, oil and spicy seeds to eat, chat about grin;
Notes:
1. Flour selection of medium gluten flour
2, the second time to wake up the noodles, pay attention to the room temperature of 40 ° C environment, it is best to put in the steamer, temperature, humidity are guaranteed, after waking up, slightly kneading will exhaust, can not be kneaded hard, kneading for a long time, so as not to knead out the gluten, the pan helmet becomes hard,
3: Make a good pan of flour cake, roll out and apply a small amount of oil to the surface, and let the noodles become soft after waking up for 3 or 5 minutes
4, when burning, first let the tweezers heat, then turn to a small heat, stove fire, the inner circle is the largest
5, if you want to bake the cake harder, the second time to make noodles, you can make noodles at room temperature, hair for 20 minutes, but when making pot helmet cake blanks, be sure to be thin (more than 1 cm on the line)