Food and story, Bowang pot helmet

Bowang pot helmet is a traditional Han Snack in Henan Province. The tendons are supple and flexible, without the slightest feeling of being sandwiched. Among the famous pot helmets in Henan, the pot helmets in Bowang Town, Fangcheng County, Nanyang City, can be regarded as the best. Bowang pot helmet crisp flesh thick, sweet and delicious, and not bad for a long time.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang was just out of his infancy, leaving behind "Bowang to attack with fire, commanding Ruyi to talk and laugh." Naosu broke Cao Gong's guts and made his first achievements in the first place" is a good story. This burning of Bowang in the First Battle, directly killed Cao Jun's dead and wounded countless people, corpses spread all over the field, Cao generals Xiahou Chun, Yu Ban, li Dianhuang fled. The Shu army captured the City of Bowang, leaving the Five Tigers general Guan Yu to lead troops to garrison and resist Cao Cao's southern invasion. It was a drought and there was a shortage of water. The soldiers were hungry and thirsty, and the army was unstable. Guan Yu sent soldiers to ask Zhuge Liang to plot, and Zhuge Liang threw a letter into the tips. The teaching is to "use dry noodles, mix with less water, and hard blocks, pots and pans, and food as helmets", so as to "sound the soldiers and release the hearts of the army". Guan Yu instructed the people to make it according to the law, and sure enough, they got a pot helmet shaped like a helmet. At that time, the pot helmet made was as big as a shield, as thick as a wine bottle, and the soldiers ate crisp and delicious, which stabilized the hearts of the army, and Guan Yu held on to Bowang with the Bowang pot helmet. Since then, the "Bowang Pot Helmet" has become famous and has lasted for thousands of years and has been passed down to this day.

Preparation Method:

5 kg of flour (2 kg of water), 30 g of alkaline noodles. Yeast noodles are 350g in summer, 750g in winter, and 500g in spring and autumn.

1, Bowang pot helmet with fermented noodles, dry noodles repeatedly kneaded, made into a shield shape on the pot kang, after the two sides of condensation, the several pot helmets stacked up in the pot, without adding water, steamed with low heat until cooked.

2, the baked pot helmet is not scorched or paste, with the color of raw noodles, the taste of cooked steamed buns.