As a good partner for lamb soup, pot helmet is also a favorite food of Fangcheng people. Bowang Town is located in Fangcheng County, southwest of Henan, and belongs to the hilly area of the Nanyang Basin. Since the Two Han Dynasties, noodles have been the mainstay here, and the industrious and simple Zhongyuan people's love for pasta is always simple and natural, and the special pasta that distinguishes it from steamed bread and burnt cakes has become an excellent choice for them.
Delicious on the tip of the tongue Bowang pot helmet is made in a unique way
The world's earliest military compressed dry food - Bowang pot helmet. The historical town of Bowang in Zhongzhou is not only the exotic land of the famous ancient diplomat Zhang Qiangong, but also the ancient battlefield where Zhuge Liang fledgling. HanZhuo, Bowang pot helmet, "Wangmei quenching thirst", "one step three eyes well" and other charms of Han relics, so that Chinese and foreign tourists will never return.
More than 1800 years ago, Zhuge Liang was inspired by the bread brought back by Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions, and innovatively invented the Bowang pot helmet, which can be called the originator of the world's military compression dry food. Nowadays, Fangcheng people visit relatives and hospitality, and always taste and gift Bowang pot helmets as a kind of hospitality. Nanyang fellow villagers go out to visit relatives and friends, and the first choice is bowang pot helmet, which not only makes dry food for the convenience of the road to fill the hunger food, but also as a local specialty to make the foreigners hungry.
Bowang pot helmet crisp flesh thick, sweet and delicious. It weighs about 2-2.5 kg and has a diameter of more than 1 foot (33 cm). Although it is 2 inches thick (0.6 cm) thick and cuts with a knife to make it look like raw noodles, it tastes supple and tender, and there is no feeling of being sandwiched. Bowang pot helmet, a specialty food baked with white noodles. The shape is like a pot, and a helmet, the whole body is white, like the raw noodles are dried, the diameter is more than one foot, the thickness is two inches, each weighs four pounds, the food is crisp and refreshing, chewy and resistant, and it is not bad for a long time.
In August 2007, in the first batch of Yu cuisine traditional dishes organized by the Henan Catering Industry Association, Bowang Pot Helmet was selected as one of the "Top Ten Flavor Snacks" in the Central Plains. This made the few inheritors of the Bowang pot helmet who struggled to stick to see hope and strengthen their confidence!
Bowang pot helmet selection of strict materials, the production process is complex, the pot helmet made such as the "Bowang pot helmet" universal encyclopedia wrote "the shape of the pot, and the helmet, the whole body is white, like the raw noodles dried, the diameter is more than a foot, the thickness is two inches, each weighs four pounds, the food is crisp and refreshing", saying that it is "delicious on the tip of the tongue" is not too much!
First of all, bowang pot helmet selection strictly ensures freshness and pollution-free.
Bowang pot helmets are made of simple ingredients, mainly flour (fine wheat noodles), yeast noodles, water, sugar, eggs, sesame oil. But it must "select high-quality wheat and select flour, which is accompanied by other multigrain noodles and ingredients." "Bowang Pot Helmet" Universal Encyclopedia wrote truthfully. In order to make an authentic and delicious Bowang pot helmet, first of all, the requirements for the selection of its source, that is, the raw materials, must be selected from high-quality wheat to pick flour, and to be fresh, can not choose the long-placed old noodles, eggs should also ensure that it is fresh eggs. Only by strictly requiring the raw materials can we ensure that the Bowang pot helmet is authentic.
Secondly, the production process of Bowang pot helmet is complicated.
1, kung fu is mainly on the noodles, with half of the noodles (fermented puffed and puffed noodles), add half of the dead noodles (directly with cold water and flour, there is also an appropriate amount of sugar, eggs, sesame oil), mixed together with the strength and, after fine kneading hard rubbing, until the dough is kneaded to delicate and smooth. After many times of kneading, squeezing, and parking, the moisture content per kilogram is only about one or two. Kneading dough is one of the most time-consuming and laborious steps in the whole process, and it must be kneaded continuously until the dough is soft and hard. The effort it takes to knead the dough is not something that you and I can easily practice as "mortals" who have no chicken power.
2, kneaded dough rolled into a round cake, made into a pot helmet prototype, with a kind of woodcut flower seal similar to the official seal pressed on its surface of the flower pattern, so that its appearance is more beautiful, this pattern printed with the flower seal to some extent is also considered to be a kind of anti-counterfeiting logo of bowang pot helmet.
3: Put into the pot. "Entering the pot is roughly divided into three stages, one is to enter the pot to see the surface, the second is to change the shape of the pot, and the third is steaming (dry steaming in a small stone pot). In the process of shaping and steaming, the temperature should be changed, and each pot helmet should be changed several times to ensure that the pot helmet is cooked thoroughly and evenly, and the taste is unique. "Bowang Pot Helmet" wrote. Grilling pot helmet to grasp the heat is the key, baked pot helmet is not scorched or paste, with the color of raw noodles, the taste of cooked buns, to achieve neither raw nor simmering, which is extremely strict to grasp the heat.
The production of bowang pot helmets is as the "Bowang pot helmet" universal encyclopedia said, "from the beginning of the noodles to the pot helmet out of the pot generally go through more than 30 processes, about 40 minutes." "The selection of materials is strict, the production process is complicated, and it requires enough patience but skill to ensure that every link does not go wrong. It is its unique production process that makes the Bowang pot helmet delicious on the tip of the tongue. On the surface, the Bowang pot helmet is a story of face and fire, but in fact it contains the wisdom of the working people of China.