Introduction: Every traditional festival has a lot of delicious food, which is one of the important reasons why many traditional festivals have been passed down, because delicious food is remembered by people. On the traditional festival of February 2nd, the food often mentioned is spring cakes. Do you know why we eat spring cakes on February 2nd? What is the moral of eating spring cakes on February 2? If you don't know, just take a look at my introduction.

Why do you eat spring cakes on February 2nd

Eating spring cakes on February 2nd is also called biting "Long Lin", which is named after the round and thin shape of spring cakes like scales. The custom of eating spring cakes on February 2nd originated from the Qing Dynasty, in which meat such as sauce elbow, pork head, tea duck and vegetables such as leeks, radishes and bean sprouts are involved. There are many kinds of spring cake side dishes, but they have the same feature: fresh and tender seasonal vegetables and wild vegetables. If you bite them down, your mouth will smell of spring. In addition to traditional spinach, bean sprouts, shepherd's purse and mustard greens, the popular sprouts are also very good as side dishes. Scrambled eggs with Toona sinensis sprouts, radish sprouts mixed with dried bean curd and cold pea sprouts are very fresh when rolled. In addition, purple cabbage, chicory, lettuce and colored pepper can be used as new side dishes. In addition to the improvement of side dishes, the spring cake itself can also be improved. When mixing flour, add some miscellaneous grains powder to make miscellaneous grains spring cake, which is more nutritious.

The implication of eating spring cakes on February 2nd

The dragon's head rising also means the beginning of spring, which means that a new cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter is about to begin. Eating spring cakes means that every household can harvest abundant crops and grain in the new cycle. Because in ancient times, food was the sky of human beings, so people would eat spring cakes on the day when the dragon looked up, which was also a longing for a better life.

The dragon looks up and eats spring cakes, which is called "biting Long Lin" on February 2nd. Each spring cake is like a piece of Long Lin. On February 2 nd, the dragon looks up and eats a spring cake, which is a good sign. Spring pancake is a kind of thin-baked bread, also called pancake. Eating spring pancake on February 2nd is also called biting "Long Lin", which is named after its round and thin shape like scales. The custom of eating spring cakes on February 2nd originated from the Qing Dynasty, in which meat such as sauced elbows, pork heads and sauced duck meat and vegetables such as leeks, radishes and bean sprouts are involved. There are many kinds of spring cake side dishes, but they have the same feature: fresh and tender seasonal vegetables and wild vegetables. If you bite them down, your mouth will smell of spring.

There is an advantage to eating spring cakes. I was full at that time, and I won't feel "full" later, because there are many vegetarian dishes. China people like to eat jiaozi, one of the reasons is that they can change the stuffing of dumplings according to their own tastes, and spring cakes are more flexible, so they can order food at will and make stuffing on the spot. There are a lot of raw materials for eating spring cakes. To send them into your mouth smoothly, the effort lies in the method of rolling spring cakes. Put the croissants, sweet noodle sauce, cut sauce meat, scrambled eggs, fried spinach and leeks, yellow flower vermicelli, bean sprouts, etc. on the spring cake in turn, and the code is neat. At this time, you should use important tools chopsticks.

put chopsticks on the spring cake, roll one side of the spring cake along the chopsticks, wrap the lower end up, hold it with your hands, then roll up the other side, roll it up and put it on the plate, and then lift out the chopsticks one by one. People with high skills will roll out spring pancake rolls as big as their mouths, which is convenient for biting.

the method and side dishes of spring cake

preparation materials: 1g of shredded pork tenderloin, 75g of mung bean sprouts, 15g of spinach, 5g of leek, 15g of vermicelli or vermicelli, 2 eggs, 5g of soy sauce, 2g of salt, 6g of ginger juice, 5g of shredded onion, 6g of cooking wine, a little sesame oil and 1 serving of boiled dough.

Spring cake side dishes:

1. It takes some time to prepare the spring cake materials, and the tenderloin is washed and shredded.

2. Break the eggs, spread them into an omelet, shred them or soak the vermicelli in warm water for later use. If the vermicelli you choose is not cooked well, you need to cook it in advance.

3. Wash spinach and leek separately and cut into sections; Pick and wash the mung bean sprouts for later use, and then prepare a portion of dough.

How to make the spring cake crust:

1. Knead the dough evenly, roll it into long strips, cut it into several small pieces, then flatten the flour in turn, brush a layer of oil evenly on each flour, then stack the flour one by one, and flatten it into a round cake by hand.

2, the size of the cake will be more uniform by hand, or you can roll it with a rolling pin several times. You can make many sheets at a time without worrying about adhesion.

3. Put the crust into a container with oil brush and steam it in a steamer. Steamed cakes are spread gently by hand, which is a lotus leaf cake.