2, free buns. In the early years, due to the lack of materials, some poor families in old Xining spontaneously developed a kind of pasta, which was made of fried white flour and chopped pig fat as stuffing and rolled into steamed bread with raw flour as skin. The most test skill is the process of making steamed bread. If you put too much white flour, the steamed bread will dry, and if you put too much lard, the stuffing will be tired and cannot be formed. After a long period of steaming, the skin is easy to break, and only white flour and lard are properly matched. Steamed buns made of Ciba will be silky, oily but not greasy, and have a long aftertaste. According to the older generation of Xining people, in the early years, due to the lack of materials, every holiday, many poor families would go to the meat stall to buy some pork suet, return home, fry the white flour (or miscellaneous noodles), chop the pork suet, add chopped green onion, take the fried white flour and lard powder as the trap, take the rolled raw flour as the skin, and knead it into buns instead of meat buns.
3, _ pot steamed buns; People who first arrived in Qinghai praised with one voice that "there are many people in Qinghai." People in Qinghai are not called steamed buns, they are called steamed buns. "Steamed bread" is just a general term. People of all ethnic groups in the agricultural and semi-agricultural areas of Qinghai often eat steamed buns in various forms, such as flower rolls, oil bags, oil cakes, curved faces, oily incense, stove steamed buns, steamed buns (big steamed buns for ancestor worship) and pot steamed buns. They are traditional gifts that relatives and friends often carry in festivals, and they are also the staple food that every meal can't be separated from.
4. "Naked naked hemp food", referred to as hemp food for short, means kneading dough bumps by hand, which is a common pasta for ancient Turks. First mix the noodles, knead them repeatedly, then cut them into small squares, and then knead them into small rolls with your thumb, which are shaped like ears, so they are commonly called "cat ears"; Finally, put the cooked hemp food into boiling water and cook it. After taking out, add various seasonings, or stir-fry, cold or stew. It can be eaten in many ways. Generally, sheep meat is put, broth is poured, and minced onion and garlic and coriander are used for seasoning. The practice of hemp food is more labor-intensive than noodles, and the key is to mix, knead and rub noodles. Because of its exquisite eating methods and rich varieties, it has become an essential staple food for Qinghai people to respect guests, welcome guests and get together. Huang Zhengyi, a gourmet in the Ming Dynasty, said in the book "Beads of Things": "Bare sesame food is made of flour and cooked into fried gravy."
5, fried cake; Traditional cakes in Xining. Fried cakes are beautifully made, with three characteristics: small size, thin skin and many patterns. Its patterns are divided into bean stuffing and sugar stuffing. There are four kinds of bean stuffing: adzuki bean, cowpea, lentil and kidney bean. There are two kinds of sugar fillings: brown sugar and white sugar, plus moss, rose, walnut kernel and preserved fruit. No matter what kind of oil cake stuffing, it tastes crisp outside and tender inside, with endless aftertaste. Speaking of fried cakes, many old people still remember them. The best fried cake is "Han's pimple". The 76-year-old Song recalled that the operator of fried cakes was surnamed Han and lived in Dongguan. He has a big pimple on the back of his neck and is often wrapped in a blue towel, hence the name of his fried cake.