In the hot summer, due to the rise in temperature, most people have a decreased appetite, do not think about eating, physical weakness, tiredness, and feel no spirit to do anything, which is a bitter summer. But in our Shijiazhuang area, there is a snack that specializes in dealing with bitter summers - grilled cakes.
The main ingredient of the grilled cake is soba noodles, boiled with buckwheat flour into a gray paste, plus peppercorns, cumin and other spices, stir well, boil underwater pot, cook it while hot and make a small round cake by hand, let it cool and eat.
Generally, when eating, use a knife to process the round cake into horseshoe pieces, or cut into two thin and thick strips of thin strips in the bowl, pour the sauce stirred with sesame sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, and mix with garlic paste, ginger, mustard, chili oil, sesame oil and other condiments. It tastes smooth and garlicy. Especially in the hot summer, it can be used as a staple food, but also a small dish, to relieve hunger in the heat and have a unique flavor.
Grilled cakes can be called local snacks, covering almost all counties and districts around Shijiazhuang. In Zhao County, there are often people who use bicycles to drive steak cakes to the streets and alleys to sell, and there are also people selling at fixed stalls, generally together with cold powder. Some people like to eat a bowl of grilled cake and then a bowl of cold powder, and eat it in a different taste. If you feel that you can't eat enough, you can also put on the burnt cake or fritters.
The method of grilling cakes is very simple and is generally made by families. Bring water to a boil in a pot, pour in the soba noodles, stir quickly, and when the soba noodles are cooked thoroughly, put them on a plate and let them cool, cut into small pieces, and pour the sauce of various condiments. Folk call this method the rice cake. If the water surface is more uncomfortable than the water surface, the grilled cake is not too soft or hard enough to resist the mouth, and the grilled cake that is not stirred to a certain extent is sticky and sticky. The fire is large and the pot is boiled, and if the fire is small, it is not cooked.
In Shijiazhuang, Jinzhou and Fukazawa are more famous for their steak cakes. The grilled cakes in Changying Village, Jinju City, have a history of about 130 years. The production of steak cakes is still produced by small family workshops. The taste is strong, smooth and fragrant, and the grilled cake is thrown three or four meters high and thrown to the ground without breaking, but when eating, it must be dipped in the seasoned ingredients, garlic paste, vinegar, sesame oil, is the right taste.
Fukasawa Takami grilled cake is famous far and wide, Fukasawa grilled cake is based on buckwheat as the main ingredient, without adding any food additives, is a typical green food. Gaomiao alone has more than 40 households operating all year round, with a daily output of more than 5,000.
The color of the grilled cake is gray and black, which does not meet the standard of good color and fragrance. There is a song in Shijiazhuang that says: "The ugly color is a steak cake, dragging mud and water is a mess." To eat cut into elephant eye pieces, vinegar garlic smoked human mustard mix. "It means that when eating steak cake, the steak cake is cut into pieces like an eye-like lump, and the mustard, garlic paste, and light vinegar juice are poured on it. Sitting under the rice shed in the hot summer and eating a bowl of cold garlic paste steak cake can really be enjoyable to relieve hunger. Don't try the bowl yet.