The Enshi area is commonly known as corn as baogu. The content of linoleic acid in corn is as high as 60%, and it also contains lecithin, vitamin a, e, etc., which can reduce blood cholesterol and soften arterial blood vessels, and is an ideal food for arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and fatty liver.
The industrious and intelligent Xuan'en farmers make full use of the special quality of Baogu and skillfully improve on the basis of the traditional baogu production process, making baogucang a famous specialty snack in Xuan'en. At present, along the 209 National Highway in Jiaoyuan Town and Gaoluo Township of Xuan'en County, there are dozens of Baogushu stores, and the more they sell, the more famous they are, and they are well-known inside and outside the state, and passers-by are competing to buy. Xuan'en Bao GuCang has also been taken by tourists to Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places to taste, and even Korean guests have brought Xuan'en BaoGucang to their home countries.
Bao Gu Cang
Bao Gu Cang Method
The raw materials of baogu are very simple, that is, sweet baogu, high-quality glutinous rice, millet, and white sugar.
First, beat the high-quality sweet bun into a bag of grain flour and set aside, then select the high-quality glutinous rice with long and full grains and soak it in cold water overnight, while soaking a little millet overnight.
In the early morning of the second day, the grain flour is properly mixed with mountain spring water and a little white sugar (according to personal preferences to determine the amount added) and stirred evenly, and then stirred again according to a certain proportion with the glutinous rice and millet soaked the night before to make it into a bag of grain paste.
Fold the wide and thick rice dumpling leaves picked in the deep mountain forest into a funnel shape, then put the rice dumplings evenly into the rice dumpling leaves with a spoon, wait to be loaded to the mouth of the "funnel", fold and cover the remaining rice dumpling leaves in half, and then place them in the steamer basket in turn, steaming for about 25 minutes on low heat.
Enshi Baogu rice has a sweet and nutritious taste. Gently peeled off, the color is crystal clear, golden and brilliant, and its taste is soft and sticky, which is very different from the rice dumplings and rice dumplings made with glutinous rice. Its taste is slightly sweet and light, sweet but not greasy, both the aroma of corn and the fragrance of rice dumpling leaves. At the same time, as a naturally grown, non-toxic and pollution-free rice dumpling leaf for packaging, it has the functions of clearing heat and stopping bleeding, detoxification and swelling. Therefore, Xuan'en Bao Gucang is especially loved by middle-aged and elderly friends and children.
The method of eating Enshi Baogu is generally to buy and eat. If you buy in bulk and eat it after it is cold, you can take the following methods: put it in the microwave to heat or cook rice in a rice cooker and then eat it; or eat it after roasting it with charcoal, gas or electric stove, especially after baking a dark yellow pan on both sides, the taste is better; or cut into small pieces and fry it in oil and eat it.
At present, this traditional ethnic snack has become one of the famous specialties of Enshi. Local farmers aimed at the market, have opened a large and small Baogu Cang distribution shop, attracting the past crowd to buy, the daily sales of more than 40,000, daily sales of nearly 30,000 yuan, to promote farmers employment and income growth. According to media reports, there is a villager named Zou Tongxin in Xuan'en Pepper Garden, who made a fortune by making bao gu shu with his own skills. In July 2007, after 6 days and 6 nights of development, he steamed his unique first cage of grain dumplings. Today, his Baogu Rice Dumplings are exported to both inside and outside the state, and have also been brought abroad by Korean guests, and can be called the "King of Rice Dumplings" As an Enshi person, Baogu Rice Dumplings are our necessary rations. The Daughter City Folk Museum has Xuan'en BaoGu Rice Dumplings, which the curator personally adds firewood to make, and the taste is authentic! Can go and taste! I'm waiting for you in Daughter City