When we were young, we called twist flowers hemp sugar. Now the people who follow outside are called twist flowers, but once they return to their rural hometowns, follow their parents and some elderly people, they are still called hemp candy. Young talents who have been working outside the home for many years do not care what, twist and twist, the name is sonorous and powerful, not ambiguous at all. Many of the words of the Fengxiang people in our hometown are different from other places, and even the eating habits are very different. When he was a child, his mischievous brother always made his grandmother angry. When Grandma was angry, she would often say such a sentence: Good Yang Liulang, not good to sell hemp candy. At that time, I didn't understand Grandma's deep meaning, and when I saw Grandma angry, Grandma hadn't opened her mouth yet, so we shouted at my brother in unison.
At that time, twist cost a dime a stick. Follow the adults to the street, a twist flower is the biggest reward. Ten twist kraft paper ropes are tied at both ends, leaving a section in the middle, which can be carried around relatives. There were no plastic bags, and the kraft paper rope looked unstable, making the oil stronger than anything else. The man fell, the twist flower shattered, but the kraft paper rope still stuck to the post. Therefore, when transferring relatives, other things children take, a bundle of twist flowers adults carry, hard to buy twist flowers, you can not come to the relative's house, only the oily end of the kraft paper rope!
There are basically as many twist stalls as dumpling stalls, and because they are cheap, they are very popular with people. The practice of twist is very simple. I went to the home of a classmate who sold twist flowers several times, and I was able to close my eyes and say what twist flowers were doing. Mix a certain proportion of boiling water and cooked oil, add pepper water, egg juice, and form a dough, put it in a bowl with a cloth or cover, and let it sit for more than 20 minutes. Take out the dough, rub it vigorously on the case, knead it until the dough is smooth and does not stick to the board, pull it into a fist-sized dough, smear it with clear oil and put it in the basin. A dough is a twist. Take a dough, knead vigorously, knead well, and then knead into a uniform and soft medium thick strip, fold in half, twist the rope like a continuous "8" shape, and slowly put it into the boiling oil pot. Look at the coloring, and then turn it over again to make the heat even. Wait until the next one is rubbed, and the pot can be fished out.
The twist flower is golden in color, crispy and delicious, and the price is cheap, which is very popular with people. The elderly go home on the street, and a twist flower can coax the grandchildren. Ten twists in a bundle, you can go to relatives. A bowl of mash, a broken twist, is a solid dry food.
With the improvement of living standards, fewer people buy marijuana flowers. Is the twist not delicious, or are there fewer people who love to eat twist flowers? I never had an answer. One has changed from a dime twenty years ago to a binary, the size has not changed, the color has not changed. Buy one and taste it, it seems to still taste that way. But unfortunately, after that era, the parents did not like to eat, the big brother who cried for a twist flower and cried to go to the street did not like to eat, and even the sister who had to lick her fingers after eating the twist flower before also picked and chose who was good and who was not good...
There are very few cannabis flowers about a foot long on the market in Tianshui. Occasionally, the glass carriages converted into small vans of foreigners are full of cannabis flowers and walk through the streets, and they are known as Tianjin cannabis flowers, but there are fewer questioners and fewer to buy. However, small twist flowers such as honey milk are very popular with people. One inch long, crispy and delicious. Some bought food, some hotels bought to cook, I heard that chicken gizzard twist is still a famous dish. In order to take care of a small number of diabetics, there are also salted twist flowers such as pepper and salt that are sold.