In Shouguang City, Shandong Province, there is a special pasta dish - bar head fire, its nickname is Sign Zi Bun, also known as Xiao Shandong Pot Cake.
The head of the bar burns
It is a kind of cake baked with white noodles, about ten centimeters in diameter, and because it has been baked in the oven, the outermost layer of the cake is golden brown crispy, the outer skin is crisp and hard, but the inside is soft and fragrant. Break it open from the middle and you can immediately smell a seductive noodle fragrance.
Hearing the name "bar head" always gives people a feeling of hard state, and it makes people feel that the word seems to express the meaning of "thorn head". Why should a good scone be called such a diaphragm?
To say this name, it means that the texture of the fire itself is relatively hard; the other is to say that when this snack is made, because the noodles are too hard, it is necessary to press the noodles with a very thick wooden bar, so it is named "bar head fire", and the locals refer to it as "bar head".
Make a bar head fire
Speaking of "hard face", this is also a major feature of the fire of the bar head. The reason why it is hard is because the noodles used for fire in the head of the bar are very little water used in the harmony system, and the noodles that come out, hard, if you want to knead it by hand, it will be ineffective with effort. Therefore, in the workshop where the bar head is burned, there must be a bar that is fixed to the wall. Usually, people would dig a hole in the wall and stick a bar the thickness of their arm in the hole. Place a large board in front of the hole, place the noodles on it, hold the other end of the bar, and press the noodles rhythmically up and down. And this work is the most arduous step in the whole production process.
Knead the dough, just roll it into a homogeneous dough, roll it out on the board into a thin round cake with a thin side in the middle, and bake it on a tin and eat it.
Inside a workshop where the processing bar head is burned
The roasted bar head is burned, the aroma is fragrant, rich in the aroma of the noodles, a bite, the outside is crisp and the inside is soft, and, because it has little water content, it is not easy to deteriorate. Therefore, in the past, the bar head fire was strung up with hemp rope by people, and when they went out, they carried it in their bags as dry food on the way. It is said that the Shandong people once brought this kind of food when they broke into the Kanto.
Today, this kind of food is still a food that people often bring when they go out. Moreover, under the improvement of people's processing, the bar head is burned, which not only becomes more beautiful, but also more in line with people's tastes.
Now the bar head fire is not only a local food, but also a regional cultural symbol, its hard and thick appearance, but also reflects the tough and strong spirit of generations of Shouguang people!
The new style of bar head burns
However, the bar head fire has a history of four or five hundred years from its invention to the present, but no matter how it is improved, its hard and fragrant characteristics are still retained. Therefore, for people who like to eat, they are fond of it; and people who do not like to eat hard food, the first bite, will not continue to eat. The so-called "turnip greens, each has its own love", this situation does not negate its position in the hearts of Shandong people.