In Yunnan to Dali to play, in addition to the ancient city of Dali, some rural market towns on the Erhai Sea are also worth playing and seeing, Xizhou is such an ancient town.
As far as I am concerned, in addition to the ancient houses and the invincible Erhai scenery of Haizhi Park, Xizhou also has a special diet called "Broken Crispy Rice Dumplings".
Before arriving in Dali, we have seen the charm of broken crisp buns in Kunming, and during that time in the travels of Yun Guichuan, we have also seen the status of rice dumplings in the food industry of Yunnan Guichuan, and the broken puff pastry sounds like the glutinous rice noodles have made a puff pastry effect, Mei feels that this is a bit magical, it is worth seeing and seeing.
Xizhou cracked crispy rice dumplings
Although it is called rice dumplings, it is actually made of flour and has nothing to do with rice dumplings. Logically speaking, it is baked after the filling is stacked on the puff pastry. Purely from the value of the production technology, it is far less powerful than the broken puff pastry. Broken crispy rice dumplings have salty and sweet tastes, 10 yuan a, salty standard version of 10 yuan, and 15 yuan a luxury version, ask the boss how to a luxury method, the boss said that the meat foam on the cake is more than the standard version, in addition to the meat also added an egg, so it is 5 yuan more. When such a quality cake is sold at this price, it cannot be measured only from the perspective of diet.
After eating and looking at it, what attracted me more than the broken crispy rice dumplings was the stove used to make the broken crispy rice dumplings.
Cracked crispy stove
There is a charcoal fire under the pan that makes the crispy pan, the lid of the pan is a brazier with charcoal, and after the cake is put into the pot, the lid of the brazier is covered to the pan below. It turned out that this broken crispy rice was actually baked with up and down fire, and in the absence of an oven and no oven, it was really powerful to invent this kind of stove to achieve the baking of the upper and lower fire.
The last time I saw this magical stove was in Yuncheng, Shandong Province, where the stove used by the early vendors who sold burned cakes resembled the stoves used to bake Xizhou rice dumplings. The owner of the bakery said that she was selling the hanging stove baked cake, and the hanging stove said that this kind of stove.
Yuncheng hanging stove baked cake
Hanging oven baked cake
Selling only one dollar a hanging oven baked cake is not so much, the dough cake with pepper salt or sugar as the filling, the formation of salty and sweet flavors, after wrapping the filling, the dough cake smeared with a little oil rolled twice to crisp can be put into the pot, and then the brazier lid is covered and baked on the line. This kind of stove is called a hanging stove, probably because the lid of the brazier on the top is hot and heavy and difficult to move, and it is necessary to use leverage to achieve the opening and closing of the stove.
A stove for hanging ovens to burn cakes
Comparing Xizhou and Yuncheng, two kinds of stoves that can achieve upper and lower fire baking, I think Yuncheng is better. Yuncheng's stove made a shell of mud with the lid of the brazier on the top, and the pot below was embedded in the closed hearth, which would be more reasonable in the use of heat energy, at least not soot flying around.
Who invented this kind of stove first, and who followed him to Xizhou and Yuncheng, this is an interesting question. Now it is very simple to achieve baking on and off the fire, the most basic electric oven can be done, but in the past era, there is really no better way than this.
Now larger cities pay attention to environmental governance, and stoves like this that burn coal and burn charcoal are afraid to withdraw from the stage of history...