In Xihe, almost every courtyard has a stone mill to grind the paste for pancakes. In the past, most of the paste was corn, wheat and beans. Now Xihe people have developed more than 30 varieties of rice, millet, sesame, sorghum, red dates and vegetables for merchants to choose from. Xihe pancake is made by hand with traditional processing technology. The grain should be washed many times, soaked overnight, and then added with 1/3 or half of the ingredients, so that the ground paste can be branded and the pancakes spread out are more refreshing. It takes a lot of time to grind paste. It takes two or three hours to grind twenty or thirty kilograms of grain. You have to be an experienced veteran to feed the grinding eyes. You must reduce the frequency of addition to make the paste fine and even.
Communication and branding require extremely high skills. If you want to practice this unique skill, you have to use Xihe people first? Sambo? : tobacco, scraper and tarpaulin. Tobacco, iron, round, slightly convex in the center, three feet below, heated with firewood below, and pancakes can be baked on it. In the Tang Dynasty's "Jin Zaiyi Ruling and Ruling"? Are you familiar with it? Linguistically, we can see that pancakes have a long history. A wooden plate-shaped arc scraper with handle shovels the paste onto the cooked seeds and thinly coats the left and right sides. Oil wipe, also known as oil pad, is a square wipe sewn with more than ten layers of white cloth, dipped in edible oil to wipe the dumplings to prevent pancakes from sticking to them.
Because pancakes have many advantages, Xihe people regard them as their own meals, and spreading pancakes has become a skill that women must master. It is said that in the past, it was difficult for girls to find a good husband's family if they could not spread pancakes well. Generally speaking, pancakes have four characteristics: first, they are as thin as paper, easy to cook or heat, convenient to eat, and can be rolled up and eaten with various dishes. Children in school often spoil their mothers. Sticky pancakes roll eggs, and you won't think about it after eating them. ? Second, pure grain production, rich in fiber, sugar-free, easy for human digestion and absorption. Third, it should be preserved for a long time, should not deteriorate, and does not need to add preservatives, because it contains little water and has been dried before sale. Fourthly, the hardness and toughness are higher than those of other wheaten foods. Chewing for a long time can promote the production of body fluids, strengthen the stomach, stimulate appetite, drive facial nerve movements, maintain the acuity of visual, auditory and olfactory nerves, and delay aging. It is a natural green and healthy food.
Nowadays, Xihe pancakes have been loved by people. From the past, solving food and clothing has become the backbone of the villagers to get rich. According to statistics, there are more than 0/000 pancake processing households in this town, and more than 40 self-employed households mainly selling pancakes, with annual sales of more than 3 million kilograms and sales of 1000 million yuan. With the strong support of the town government, Tianjishan, Apollo, Yongjie and other pancake sales companies signed long-term supply contracts with farmers, forming a? Company+farmers? Our products are exported to Beijing, Shanghai, Heilongjiang and other large and medium-sized cities.
Nowadays, the people of Xihe who have embarked on the road to prosperity are still eating pancakes, pickles and tofu, and living a real and rich life for the people of the world, calm and calm.