At the southern end of Jinzhong Basin in Shanxi Province, the food culture of Lingshi County

Yellow stripes

Yellow stripes are also called hair, which is also one of the staple foods in the morning. Raw materials include white flour, bean flour, miscellaneous flour, rice flour, Hosta flour, sorghum flour, and also two-sided flour (two kinds of flour are mixed together) and three-sided flour (three kinds of flour are mixed together).

To make yellow strips, first of all, it is called leavening. Add flour to baking powder or reserved leaven (fermented dough), mix it with warm water or cold water (the noodles should be soft and moist, so that it is delicious), and leave it for a certain period of time before leavening (usually it is made in the evening and the next morning). Add a proper amount of alkaline flour or baking soda to the dough according to the fermentation situation (it must be appropriate, if there is too much alkali, the color will turn yellow, or even it will not evaporate, and if there is too little alkali, it will be sour and not delicious). Take it to the steamer and spread it into a big round block. If possible, insert some jujubes on it, steam it and cut it into small squares with a thin thread or a kitchen knife. In order to facilitate ventilation and quick cooking, put it in the cage for a while, and after the noodles are fixed, you can tie a number of small holes evenly on them with chopsticks to prevent external cooking and internal growth due to lack of ventilation in the middle. Yellow stripes are similar to cakes, soft and delicious, and easy to digest.

kneading Baba

is also called kneading a knot in one's heart. It is traditionally used as a supplementary food other than the morning staple food of Wowotou or steamed buns in rural areas, and is also eaten as a staple food.

there are flour, sorghum flour, fine jade, etc. to make the dough, and vegetables are generally two kinds of mixed vegetables. Wild vegetables include alfalfa, chicory, Shapong, corn flour, brooms, etc. Vegetables include potatoes, sweet potatoes, red and white radishes, leeks and sauerkraut. According to your own requirements, choose different raw materials, add seasonings such as salt, pepper noodles and chopped green onion to the flour, then put the cut or rubbed vegetables into the flour, add a little warm water or cold water, mix the noodles with the vegetables evenly (more vegetables and less noodles, so that they are delicious), knead them into oval balls of similar size, steam them in cages, then make some mixed juice of fried green onion, and add some soy sauce, vinegar and people.

Tantan

is one of the most popular foods, especially for the elderly and children. However, because it is troublesome and time-consuming to make, people seldom eat it, but on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year, it is a must for every family to eat. Dachengguo College studies the legend that this day is the day when the dragon looks up, and making stalls is commonly known as pulling the dragon's skin, which is intended to tame the dragon king, so that he can serve the people in the new year, ensure the good weather and get a good harvest.

Although it is time-consuming and laborious to make a stall, the process is not complicated. According to your own taste, you can choose white flour, bean flour (wheat mixed with mung beans, mangoes and adzuki beans), miscellaneous flour (flour mixed with Hosta, sorghum and soybeans), sorghum flour and fine Hosta flour, and add a proper amount of salt, chopped green onion and flowers. Make a D-shaped scraper with sorghum stalks, apply a little cooking oil to the hot seeds, scoop a spoonful of good batter on it, spread it with a T-shaped scraper into a round cake with a diameter of 2 to 3 cm and a thickness of about 2 to 3 mm (the thinner the better), turn it over with a spatula and bake it, and a stall is made. In this way, one spread is repeated until the batter is finished or enough to eat. If you spread cold mung bean sprouts or chopped green onion sauerkraut on the stalls and roll them into rolls, it will taste better. Under normal circumstances, if you eat a stall, you have to drink mixed rice. Boil miscellaneous rice, similar to eight-treasure porridge, that is, mix whole grains such as millet, wheat, cowpea, soybean, Hosta, etc., add some dried turnips and boil into thick porridge. Eating a rolled vegetable stall and drinking mixed rice, you don't have a taste in your mouth.

Oil cake

is one of the top-grade snacks in Lingshi flavor, and it is also a necessary item for Lingshi people to celebrate festivals, entertain guests, weddings and funerals, and worship gods. As the saying goes, "Don't eat cakes on the winter solstice, kids look across the door", that is to say, no matter rich or poor, every household must eat cakes on the winter solstice, which means that luck will rise step by step in the coming year and life will be sweet (stuffed).

The traditional method of making oil cakes has a long history. With the gradual improvement of living standards, many patterns have been added, which can be roughly divided into two types: rice flour cakes and white flour cakes. Rice flour cakes include soft rice flour cakes and Jiang rice flour cakes. No matter what kind of cake, its making method is basically the same. First, make stuffing, put adzuki beans and red dates in the pot, cook them thoroughly with stable fire, add a little brown sugar to improve the sweetness when the water is exhausted, and grind them into bean paste with a spoon. The worse the better, the bean paste is made. Add a little boiled water to the cake surface, knead it into a steamed bun shape, then dip it in a little cooking oil and make dough, divide it into several small pieces with the same size, like wrapping jiaozi, wrap it with bean paste, flatten it into a round cake with a diameter of about several centimeters, and then fry it in an oil pan to eat. The history of white flour cake is later than that of rice flour cake, and the production methods are not the same. Making stuffing: First, stir-fry sesame seeds, peanuts, walnuts, melon seeds, etc. and grind sesame seeds into powder, then chop everything else into pieces, and then add appropriate amount of white sugar and stir well to make the stuffing. Making cake crust: steam sweet potato (sweet potato, sweet potato) in a cage, peel it completely, grind it into mud, add proper amount of white flour and mix it evenly, then make stuffing, knead it into a round cake shape, or knead it into a semicircle shape, and fry it in an oil pan until golden brown. Whether it is rice flour cake or white flour cake, it is bright, sweet and delicious, and it is one of the popular foods welcomed by the people.

bone fatigue

is one of the most representative lingshi flavor foods, which is soft and delicious, rich in nutrition and widely praised by people. On the sixth day of November, the 26th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty, Cixi and Emperor Guangxu went west to Xi 'an Road and passed through Lingshi. When they were in Hefu, an official family of two families, they had a tired and harmonious meal, and their appetite was wide open and they were full of praise. When he left, he told Li Lianying to write down the materials and the whole production process and bring them back to the palace. According to legend, when Cixi returned to Beijing, she often asked the chef to make her a meal of peace and harmony. Since then, the anecdote that Cixi likes to eat tired bones and harmonious meals has been widely circulated among the people.

It is impossible to verify when the production of bone fatigue began. So far, it still preserves the traditional craft of the predecessors and has new development. In the past, it was made of coarse flour such as red flour, miscellaneous flour and corn flour. Nowadays, it is mostly made of white flour or a little corn flour or rice flour. Bone fatigue can be divided into vegetable bone fatigue and meat bone fatigue. Vegetable bone fatigue is more common, and there are many varieties, such as acacia flowers, elm money, brooms, alfalfa and other wild vegetables. There are also yam eggs, fennel, red and white radishes, beans, Chinese cabbage, shallots, sauerkraut and other vegetables. Different kinds of vegetables have different tastes. No matter what kind of bone fatigue, the method of making it is basically the same. Chop the mixed vegetables with a knife, or rub them into filaments with a boil, add appropriate amount of water and seasoning, and then add appropriate amount of flour to fully stir, until the shredded vegetables and vegetable blocks are evenly covered with flour into granules or strips, then steam them in a cage and eat them. Add onion and garlic and fry them in oil before eating, and the taste is better. The production of meat and bones is slightly different from that of vegetables and bones. First, the pork is cut into cubes as big as soybeans, stirred with egg flour and fried in an oil pan. Then the fried diced meat is wrapped in a white flour sieve and steamed in a cage. After steaming, the onion and garlic seasoning are added and fried in oil, which makes it a delicious food with delicious flavor and mouth watering.