It belongs to Qinyang City, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, and was called Huaiqing House in ancient times. It is known as "Qinhuai Ancient County, a famous country of rivers and moons, hometown of merchants and hermits". There are spectacular natural landscapes such as the Danhe Canyon, historic places of interest such as the Sansheng Pagoda of Tianning Temple, and of course, there are also delicious snacks full of the flavor of northwest Henan. Among them, Qinyang Baiwan, which has local characteristics, is a must when you arrive in the local area.
qinyang white pill: a traditional snack with regional characteristics
qinyang white pill, also known as bleaching pill, is a traditional snack with regional characteristics in Guhuaiqing prefecture. In Qinyang, the most famous white pill is Li Jiabai Pill.
The production technique of Lijiabai Pills can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty. During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, Li Zhenhe of Dengta Street, the county seat of Hanoi, drew lessons from the local common donkey meatballs, and made meatballs with yam, chicken and eggs as the main raw materials, which gave birth to the embryonic form of early white meatballs.
in the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China, Li Yingtang, the second generation descendant of Lijiabai Pill, perfected the production technology of Baiwan, using only egg white for eggs and only chicken breast for chicken. After egg white, yam and chicken breast are mixed and stirred, the meatballs made of Shui Piao near the boiling point are white in color, so they are called white pills.
After that, Li's white pill making process became more and more elaborate. In 1914 and 1915, Li Yingtang rented two facade houses in the front street of Chengyang, Qinyang, and hung up the signboard of "Lijia Baiwan". Since then, as a synonym for Qinyang Baiwan, Lijia Baiwan has become a delicacy on the table of local urban and rural residents.
after more than 12 years of inheritance and development, at present, Lijiabai Pill has become a famous flavor food in Jiaozuo area. In 1998, Li Jiabai Pill won the first prize of the third flavor snack competition in Jiaozuo; In 25, Li Jiabai Pill won the special prize of the first Shennong Cultural Festival Flavor Snack Competition in Qinyang City; In April, 29, the production skill of Lijia Baiwan was announced by Qinyang Municipal Government as the first batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage projects.
Qinyang Baiwan is a local snacks with chicken breast as the main ingredient and egg white, yam and flour as the auxiliary materials. When making, you need to chop the chicken breast into paste with the back of a knife, cut the yam into paste with bamboo chopsticks, and separate the egg white and yolk of the egg.
When mixing the ingredients, firstly, the egg white is mixed with a certain amount of water, and repeatedly stirred into foam with chopsticks. During the stirring process, the chicken breast paste, yam paste, sweet potato powder, etc. are added in turn, and then seasonings such as refined salt, cooking wine, lard, etc. are added, and it is fully stirred to make it a soft noodle for kneading. Then, soak the small round balls made of soft noodles in hot water of about 9 degrees Celsius, and slowly heat them with warm fire until all the white balls float on the water, and then take them out of the pot.
According to Li Xiaoyou, the fourth-generation inheritor of Lijiabai Pill, the white pill made by the above steps is white in color, crystal clear, moderate in hardness, soft and weak inside and elastic. Whether making white pill soup or burning white pills, the taste is crisp and delicious.