What do you mean by snowballing?
In fact, snowballing usury is a snack, which is one of the traditional snacks in Northeast China, old Beijing and Tianjin.
Many people like snowballing usury because of its sweet taste, soft entrance and unique flavor. Many foreign tourists are interested in this delicious food and want to try it.
Why is it called snowballing?
The ancients were also puzzled by the origin of snowballing. Yan Dou's "Snack Miscellaneous Poems" said: "Brown sugar and water stuffing are skillfully arranged, and yellow noodles are buried in flour beans. He Shiqun is called snowball, and his name is almost humorous. " There is also "soybean glutinous rice", which is steamed, wrapped in brown sugar water stuffing, rolled in fried yellow bean and sold on a plate. It is really incredible to call it' rolling'. " It can be seen that the name of "snowballing" has been established. Now it can be bought in snack bars all year round, but most snack bars have changed from yellow wheat to glutinous rice noodles, because the color of Juan yellow bean is yellow.
Chengde area is rich in millet, and Chengde is called yellow rice, which is sticky. Bowling is a popular millet snack with a history of more than 200 years in Chengde. Snowball is a long roll made of yellow rice stuffing. It is named after laying soybeans under rolls and rolling long rolls on bean powder when eating, which looks like donkey rolls. The raw materials of "snowballing donkey" are rhubarb rice noodles, soybeans, sand, sugar, sesame oil, sweet-scented osmanthus, green shredded pork and melon seeds. Its production is divided into three processes: blank making, filling and molding. The boiled "snowball donkey" is covered with bean powder, golden in color, sweet and soft, and unique in flavor. It is a traditional snack suitable for all ages.
Is snowballing usury delicious?
Bean flour cake, also called snowballing usury, is one of the ancient snacks in Beijing (but it is called horse snowballing in the south of China). Its raw material is steamed in yellow wheat with water, and the dough is slightly softened with more water. In addition, soybeans are fried and rolled into flour. When making, the steamed yellow rice flour is wrapped with soybean flour and rolled into sheets, then wrapped with red bean paste (brown sugar is also acceptable), rolled up, cut into small pieces of about100g, and sprinkled with white sugar.
When making, the stuffing is required to be rolled evenly, with distinct layers and yellow appearance, which is characterized by fragrance, sweetness and stickiness, and strong bean flour flavor. Soybean is the main raw material of soybean flour cake, so it is called soybean flour cake. At present, there are snack bars all year round, but most of them have changed from yellow wheat to glutinous rice noodles, because the color of soybean noodles is still yellow, which is a favorite snack of the masses.
What happens if you eat too many snowballs?
Although snowballing usury is delicious, it is a pasta dessert after all, which contains more sugar and is easy to get fat after eating, leading to high blood sugar and so on.
Because glutinous rice flour is the common raw material for making snowballing, cakes made of glutinous rice should not be eaten too much, which may easily lead to indigestion.