The aroma of pancakes in the style of farmhouse cuisine
Author | Feng Enchang
Linqu belongs to the old district of Yimeng, and people have the habit of eating pancakes. Standing on the mountain in the morning twilight, looking at the villages of all sizes, the roof ridge in the courtyard rises with cooking smoke, which reminds people of the place where the cooking smoke rises, there must be a peasant sister-in-law spreading pancakes. If you walk into the streets of the village, the smell of pancakes will overflow in front of your home. In YimengShan Township, aunts, eldest brides, sisters-in-law, daughters-in-law, and girls almost all spread pancakes. I loved to eat pancakes in my childhood, and often helped my mother push pancakes, and observed the image of her pancakes very carefully, and later wrote a poem "Pancakes": "The tweezers are a hot field, and my mother is carefully cultivated in the morning light / Who knows how many seeds of youth she sprinkled, and the golden plum blossoms bloom layer by layer / I picked a few flowers for the grandfather who was shepherding, and he smiled and spent his eyes / I put a stack on my father's palm, and he weighed it and seemed to be very heavy: 'Child, This is the flower of your mother's soul', I was silent, looking at this plum-like pancake. Later, he also wrote a "wife's pancake song" published in the magazine "Home of Old Cadres", and wrote a poem "Cooking Tobacco", which was published in "Shandong Literature", which caused repercussions among readers.
Pancakes are made from real grains, millet, corn, rice, sorghum, millet, etc., all of which can be ground into pancakes. Pancakes are made of different ingredients and taste different. In terms of my taste, corn pancakes taste the best, with a beautiful sweetness, refreshing aroma, how to eat the basic taste remains unchanged. Secondly, millet and soybean pancakes have a strong fragrance. Wheat pancakes are strong, and chewing is not smooth. Rice pancakes are a bit idyllic, dried melon pancakes, and the aroma is not strong. With the commercialization of pancakes, there have been some new varieties, such as hawthorn pancakes, persimmon pancakes, sugar shortbreads, pancake fruits, etc., all of which have their own strengths and their shorts, hawthorn pancakes are sweet and sour, belonging to the snack type of food, when the daily meal is tasteless. I have carefully observed the persimmon pancakes of the farmer's sister-in-law's stall, when spreading corn pancakes, poke a small hole in the baked persimmons, drip the persimmon liquid on the pancakes of the stall, scrape a circle with a scraper, and it is really delicious, crisp and raw, sweet and fragrant, much more delicious than the sugar crisp pancakes bought in the supermarket. However, when eating rice, it is not suitable, and there is always some lack of stomach after eating, that is, machine-processed persimmon pancakes, which can only be used as a snack. In YimengShan Township, in the past, people also ate pancakes with sour heads, the taste was good, but I think the production was unscientific, no matter how hot the day was, grinding and fermenting at night, immersed in a lot of bacteria, eating was not good for the stomach, easy to have stomach disease or cancer, so to eat freshly ground pancakes, resolutely can not eat sour pancakes.
There are many ways to eat pancakes, especially scraping pancakes, the storage time is about half a month, and you can eat it in different ways. When I was a child, I broke into Kanto, on the train back to my hometown, I was squeezed in a hut for more than two days, so I relied on my mother to bring a bag of fried pancakes, eat some when I was hungry, drink some cold water, and keep going back to my hometown. The corn pancakes from the new stall, with some green onions and burned into pancake rolls, can be preserved for ten days and eight days, eat crisp and fragrant, nibble on two dishes, drink some boiling water, and feel very comfortable in the stomach. Pancakes can be eaten steamed with crushed noodles or eaten with pancakes.
Pancakes are rich in nutrition and beauty, and they are also being recognized. On the table of the hotel and the hotel, there is a stack of pancakes on the ground, so that guests can eat small dishes, which has a unique flavor. Now pancakes have also been upgraded to gourmet food. Stacked into stacks or baked into pancake rolls, boxed and given away, it becomes a good gift. Pancakes made with new grains are particularly flavorful, and there is a saying in my hometown: "At the end of July, in August and a half, the new rice pancakes mung bean (rare) rice, rolled with toon sprouts, fried eggs, eating really comfortable." "In my later years, I used pancakes as my main food, eating pancake rolls at both ends for three days, eating bean foam, and drinking porridge, so that I was healthy and healthy.
Feng Enchang was born in 1937 in Linqu, Shandong. He once served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the county party committee and the chairman of the Literary Association, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Chinese Folk Artists Association, a director of the Shandong Prose Literature Association, a standing director of the China Vernacular Poets Association, a famous poet and writer of the National Pastoral School, a representative of the "Rural Small Courtyard School", and was known as the god of Oriental poetry. His works have won many awards at home and abroad, and have won the honorary title of lifetime achievement of the highest award of folk literature in the Asia-Pacific region, "Golden Flying Eagle Award", and have been named the title of world cultural celebrity and national first-class artist, the inheritor of the legend of Feng Weimin, and has published 23 literary monographs, "Sugar Gourd" and "Hometown Cicada Song", which have been selected to read textbooks in full-time middle schools nationwide.