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Spinning powder-an old Beijing snack

Source: Date of publication: July 2005-18.

Traditional snacks in summer in Beijing. Spinning powder is a kind of food that can be eaten both hot and cold. Its nature is the same as red sesame seed cake and bean jelly, but the seasoning is not soy sauce and vinegar, but thin marinade. If the sound disappears, Beijing calls the copper basin a copper rotator. Spinning powder is as big as a copper basin, so it is called spinning powder. Cut this large vermicelli roll into strips with a knife, put it in a bowl and pour it with light salt water, and you can eat it. Vegetarian brine is made of oil, salt, sauce and some seasoning ingredients, such as chopped mushrooms, yellow flowers (day lily) and egg flowers. Thicken with thin flour and pour it on the vermicelli. It is also one of the snack foods in summer evening.

Spinning powder skin is bluish white, translucent, soft and smooth, cool and refreshing.

Raw materials: pepper, yellow flower, coriander, auricularia, Tricholoma, Jiang Mo, soy sauce, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, alum, sesame oil and dried starch.

Production method: Boil dry starch and alum in cold water into a thin paste, heat sesame oil with strong fire, fry in Jiang Mo until yellow, then add soy sauce mushroom soup, yellow flowers, auricularia auricula, refined salt and mushroom slices, pour cold water to boil, and then pour starch juice into a pot and stir evenly; After cooking, add monosodium glutamate and coriander powder, sprinkle pepper oil on coriander powder to form plain brine, and let it cool for later use; Pour cold water into the pot, when it is about to boil, put the cleaned spinner flat on the pot to float on the water surface, stir the starch paste evenly with a spoon, scoop out a small amount of paste and pour it into the center of the spinner, and immediately turn the spinner from inside to outside by hand for four turns, so that a thin vermicelli is formed inside the spinner; Tilt the spinneret, pour in some hot water, scald the surface of the vermicelli, soak the spinneret in cold boiled water for a while, remove the vermicelli by hand, fold it in half and cut it into strips, and then soak it in cold boiled water with alum. When eating, put the vermicelli in a bowl and pour cold salt water on it.