Pea yellow is a traditional snack in Beijing. According to Beijing custom, you should eat pea yellow on the third day of the third lunar month. Therefore, whenever pea yellow is listed in spring, it will be supplied until the end of spring.
Folk pea yellow
Folk rough pea yellow is a typical spring food, which is common in spring temple fairs. For example, in the flat peach palace on March 3, "jujube thick pea yellow" is a seasonal fresh product, and the vendors shouted "Hey, jujube thick pea yellow, big chunks!" It seems to give people a message of spring and bring warmth.
Exercise:
"Coarse pea yellow" is made by peeling white peas, stewing them with twice as much water as peas, then frying them with sugar, then mixing them with gypsum water and cooked dates, putting them in a big casserole, cooling them into blocks, deducting them, cutting them into diamond-shaped blocks like cutting cakes, and putting a small piece of golden cake on them for decoration. It is usually sold on a unicycle covered with wet blue cloth. The operators of this industry are mostly Pinggu and Xianghe in JD.COM.
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"Fine pea yellow" is improved on the basis of folk red dates and coarse pea yellow. The preparation method is more elaborate. Peas are cooked and sieved into paste, then added with white sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus. After solidification, they are cut into small squares two inches square and less than half an inch thick. Put a few honey cakes on it, which are good in color and fragrance, delicate and pure in texture, and melt in the mouth, belonging to the top grade. After the Republic of China, Tang Yilan Restaurant and Fangshan Tea House in Beihai Park sold first-class pea yellow, packed in cardboard boxes, with ten capsules per box. It is called court snack, with kidney bean cake and steamed corn bread.
Production method:
Use good white peas, slightly grind and peel them, and soak them in cold water for 3 times. Boil water in a copper pot (iron pot is not allowed), put peeled peas in the pot, add alkali, cook peas into porridge, then add the original soup into the basket, add sugar in the pot and fry for 30 minutes. The temperature should be well controlled, neither too tender nor too hot. Too young to solidify into pieces, too old to solidify will have cracks. In the process of frying, it is necessary to fish it up with wooden boards at any time for experiments. If the bean paste drips down slowly, the dripped bean paste will not immediately merge with the bean paste in the pot, but gradually form a pile, and then gradually merge with the bean paste in the pot (commonly known as broken pile), and then the pot can be served. Pour the bean paste in the pot into the white iron mold, cover it with a smooth paper towel to prevent it from cracking and clean it. It will turn into pea yellow after cooling.
Classification of pea yellow
There are two kinds of pea yellow in Beijing: palace and folk. The flower peas produced in Zhangjiakou are the best. Pea yellow, a traditional snack in Beijing, was introduced into the Qing Palace with kidney flowers. When dining in the palace, it is usually packed in exquisite boxes and decorated with golden cakes. Red and yellow. It is said that Cixi likes eating. The street vendors generally add dates and sell them piece by piece. Shouting "pea yellow-big!" Pea yellow is light yellow in color, delicate, cool and sweet, and melts at the entrance. It is a good summer product.
The legend of pea yellow
It is said that one day Cixi was sitting in the meditation room in Beihai when she suddenly heard gongs and shouts coming from the street. She was puzzled and asked what she was doing. The eunuch on duty reported that she sold pea yellow and kidney flower rolls. Cixi was happy at the moment and sent a command to call this person into the park. When someone saw Galeries Lafayette, they quickly knelt down with kidney rolls and pea yellow in their hands. Please come to lafayette. Cixi tasted it and was full of praise. She left this man in the palace to make pea yellow and kidney bean rolls for her.