Because the grain crops are mainly sorghum, grains and miscellaneous grains, people's staple food is sorghum noodle cake and millet (grain peeled) rice. Because in the old society, the working people's food is difficult to ensure food and clothing, so people developed the habit of drinking paste and eating yam eggs (potatoes), however, because of long-term consumption, paste and yam eggs are also eaten out of taste, so after the liberation of the people can not forget the paste and yam eggs, breakfast after eating the staple food but also drink a bowl of paste, because like pea flour, bean flour, lentil flour to make a paste is very fragrant, and now people have been put in the paste! Nowadays, people have been selling the paste as a local specialty to foreign travelers. After lunch, you must eat a few hard-boiled yam eggs, not only because it is fragrant, but also because it is the only way to feel full and comfortable. Weixian catering meals flavor snacks, some are unique, some are on its name can be heard all over the country, but its flavor, shape and make and other places are by no means the same, the following examples of a number of special food and flavor snacks.
Yellow cake Yellow cake is the most characteristic food in Weixian County, it is made of yellow rice (millet peeled) surface, it is a unique food there, is to entertain friends and relatives, held in red and white celebrations, as well as the New Year's Day of the top dishes, as the saying goes, "yellow cake meat dishes, love to go to love in the (to stay)", the yellow cake can be further made into a deep-fried cake. The yellow cake can also be further made into fried cake. Other places to eat dumplings on New Year's Eve, our Uixian New Year's Eve to eat fried cake, meaning that the reunion.
Buckwheat noodles either buckwheat or buckwheat noodles is one of the specialties of Uixian County, it is highly palatable, but also to entertain friends and relatives, red and white celebrations, as well as the New Year's Eve of the top dishes. It is not complicated to cook and do, as long as a look can be learned, so the family can cook, with a bed of buckwheat kneaded buckwheat dough pressed into powder and pressed directly into the pot of boiling water, a few moments, hitching a ride into the cold water, that is, ripe for eating. It is high-quality pliable and long, white color, once pressed into a number of times can be eaten in more than twenty hours or in winter or in the refrigerator to freeze it, can be a long period of time the quality of unchanged, color unchanged, the aroma does not diminish. Buckwheat noodles is a spoon food, spoon material is essential, generally divided into two kinds of meat soup and vegetarian soup, meat soup is often shredded pork as the main product, vegetarian soup more to yellow flowers, local mushrooms (portobello mushrooms) as a condiment, if you add a little more pepper or chili oil, it is extraordinarily rich in flavor.
Hair buns Hair buns are made of millet flour into a paste, fermentation and then mixed into the appropriate alkaline water can be spread into a golden yellow cake-like food, we call it hair buns. It is because there is a unique fireplace in Weixian County, a pot of snow-white, delicate, slag-free coal ash (local coal burned ash is such), put on a white fire-resistant clay made of huochuan (small fireplace), about twelve or thirteen centimeters in diameter, twenty centimeters high, under which there is a hollowing out of the ash air inlet, the mouth of the inside of the frame of a round bar between the empty bottom of the cast-iron stove, and then leaning on the top of the three ventilation holes, the most upper there are three furnace ear to put a pot of sand, and a pot of sand. Set up a casserole, the stove can be used coal can also be burned with straw, generally used for cooking and boiling water. Put a special round brand (biscuits vis-a-vis) set on the stove, you can spread hair buns. Brand is made of cast iron, the center arc raised, the perimeter of the formation of grooves, a spoonful of batter poured into the inside, the batter slowly flow around, immediately with the cover buckle, warm fire heating, a few minutes on the good. In Weixian families do it once a year, there is a kind of commemoration of the holiday, but I can not remember which month and which day.
The Ulsan Dawei Dawei, as well as the other Ulsan Dawei products, such as jujube cakes, pepper cakes, and dry buns, are also unique. The coal produced in Weixian is a high-quality domestic coal, which in turn creates a unique process of food processing. Its ovens can be heated from above and below at the same time, so the flavors of Weixian Dacian, Jujube Cake, Peppercorn Cake, and Dry Bun Bun processed in this way are unique in the whole country.
Small rice pancakes Small rice pancakes are the traditional snacks in Uixian, affordable, unique style. It is different from other places where the tip of the cake is expensive in thin, diameter up to sixty or seventy centimeters, thick as thin paper, tough as woven silk. It is a large pancake, yellowish color, popular, because its original journey to play fried food, so called "pancakes". It can be eaten in many ways, in the market can be soaked in marinade soup to eat, you can also buy home to cut into shreds and fried to eat, you can also clip on the meat as a pie to eat. You can also dry the pancakes to make them dry, which makes them crispy and fragrant.
The most important thing to remember is the fact that the noodles are the same as the ones you eat in other places, but they are also unique. There are crystal powder, yellow powder, and white powder. Crystal powder is a cold food with local flavor in Uixian County, which is named after its transparent color. Sell all kinds of powder weight with iron cymbals to powder weight rubbed into a slender strip into the bowl, plus seasoning, delicious flavor, soft and not sticky, slippery and not greasy, cool summer, is the best cold snacks. Whenever the heat of the summer, the town of people on the market, dry mouth, if you eat a bowl of powder, not only taste hunger, and can drive away the heat, refreshing.
Five-spice dried tofu At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the civil war, the city of Uixian Huang Lao Er, Liu Xiang two people made five-spice dried tofu is second to none, famous throughout the county, year-round best-selling, demand exceeds supply. People in Uixian County who go abroad to visit friends and relatives, are to buy some five-spice dried tofu gifts for friends and relatives, outsiders to Uixian County to buy some five-spice dried tofu to others to taste. Dried five-spice tofu making method should be seized three points: First, the tofu into blocks or strips, by sunlight constantly turning the sun for four hours after the storage up; second is to cook dried tofu before the dried tofu soaked in water for one to two hours, the dust washed clean; third is to cook dried tofu when the first to put an appropriate amount of salt, pepper, fennel, dai miao, cinnamon and other seasonings burned simmer for ten minutes, and then into the dried tofu, cooked over a slow fire for three hours or so, can be eaten, after two back to pot, more delicious. After two times back to the pot, more delicious and tasty. The texture and taste of dried tofu from other places does not reach this level.
Five-spice sunflower seeds Five-spice sunflower seeds were first operated by Chen Valuable, Su Fu two people in the fourth street of Uixian City, their five-spice sunflower seeds processing method is quite sophisticated. First of all, the sunflower seeds in the soil and stone, sand, secret and other impurities with a sieve and dustpan to remove, to maintain the purity; secondly, cook with salt water, every ten pounds of sunflower seeds with three pounds of salt, put on the right amount of ginger, pepper, fennel, dashi, cinnamon and other seasonings with a slow fire cooking and boiling, slightly added lye, to facilitate the peeling. Cooking sunflower seeds in the process to be turned every twenty minutes, about five times, less soup can be fished out; and finally fried dry with a slow fire, you can get a delicious and tasty five spice sunflower seeds.
Sesame oil Sesame oil is the cooking oil used in our county. And in the field with cooking oil due to different regions and different, usually soybean oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, sesame oil, etc., and sesame oil (sesame oil) is the top but can not be used to stir-fry vegetables and vegetables, can only be used for cold dishes. The hemp oil used in Weixian County can be used to stir-fry vegetables and vegetables, and can also be used for cold dishes after cooking. It is similar to sesame oil, its raw material is coffee-colored sesame, locally called houma, so it is also called houma oil, especially fragrant, more fragrant than other cooking oil. So it is better than other cooking oil.