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thin pancake
Let's start with pie. One hundred years ago, the pie used its own rural common name-collapse cake, which was divided into four types: Chao, Pan Xiang, Crab Shell Yellow and Wa. Ban Chao grows into a cake today; The mainstream of Pan Xiang school is the pie school; Crab shell yellow is now an independent portal, belonging to a different "level" from pie.
"The crumbling owner of the cake runs a good enterprise and bakes it in the cake oven." One hundred years ago, it was the cake breaker who yellowed the board, coil incense and crab shell. In addition to the above three kinds, there is also a kind of ceramic tile, which is said to sell well. At present, the breakfast stalls in the streets and lanes of Shanghai are cooking "Four donkey kong", especially pie. The craft is a little different from before. There are not many authentic dishes, and there are even fewer baked crab shells.
deep-fried dough stick
Fried dough sticks and pies are inseparable "brothers", which has already begun to appear in the teahouse picture of Dianshizhai Pictorial. But early street vendors separated them. 1909 "Selling Fried Juniper" in Pictorial Daily depicts a vendor with fried dough sticks and bamboo boards on his head. It is said that Qin Gui, a traitor in the Southern Song Dynasty, killed Yue Fei. Later, the world hated Qin Gui, made a model of flour, and fried it in Millennium boiling oil for ten thousand people to chew.
The fried gingerbread sold overhead can't be eaten hot, so it will be fried more crisply, just like the old-fashioned ones now. In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a new play in Shanghai called "Fighting the Sage with Tea Dishes". Uncle Cha is a rich man in the play. He spends all his fortune on eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, so he has to make a living by selling fried juniper. The fritters are fried now, so eat them while they are hot. It is best to eat with pie or rice, which is rich in flavor.
Steamed rice made of glutinous rice and round rice.
It seems that the containers selling rice in the street are not particular, and most of them are wooden barrels. But a hundred years ago, the barrel of steamed rice was much higher, showing a round table shape with a big top and a small bottom, and the charcoal fire under the barrel could keep warm. Just like now, glutinous rice is very suitable for people who go out to eat in the morning.
soya milk
Now Shanghai is a businessman in grinding bean curd, selling tofu and soybean milk at the same time. Grinding bean curd, the 204th issue of Pictorial Daily 100 years ago, said: "In grinding bean curd in the middle of the night, the tofu manager lamented the hardships. The goddess who opened the shop came to help, and the soybean milk was ground out countless times. Rotten mud drips on the grinder, and bean dregs are piled up for grinding. The girl who opened the shop is exhausted, and she wants to make soup and eat a bowl of tofu pulp. "