I have been out of a small mountain village for more than 4 years, and my local accent and eating habits have not changed. Especially when I am retired, I miss my childhood hometown flavor more and more.

Dried sweet potato pancakes are my favorite. Dried peppers and peanuts are burned at the bottom of the pot, which seems to be paste rather than paste. They are mashed with garlic mortar made of stones, and the peanut cakes are rolled into noodles, which are made into vegetable tofu with dried sweet potato leaves. Dried sweet potato pancakes are rolled with pepper and vegetable tofu. The aroma is accompanied by spicy taste, which will stimulate your taste buds and leave you with endless aftertaste. This is an unparalleled food in the world. I believe you will eat it for a lifetime.

My hometown is a remote mountain village in the southwest of Shandong Province. The village is very small, with more than a dozen families. Because most of them are mountainous and thin, the most suitable planting is peanut sweet potato. Generations of people have grown up eating dried sweet potato pancakes. Influenced by it, they have eaten pancakes every day since they can remember, and they are pure dried sweet potato pancakes.

Every autumn, first frost is the best time to harvest sweet potato seedlings. In our village, the daily work is to chop the seedlings in the fields, grind the sickle the night before, and prepare the pole and cowhide rope. The sweet potato seedlings cut back the next day should be chopped while fresh. At this time, the village is covered with chopped sweet potato seedlings. Every year, our family stores a large hoard (a garden hoard with a height of more than one meter woven by Amorpha fruticosa). The stalks are fed to pigs and the leaves are eaten by people, and the vegetables will be available in winter.

After first frost, the sweet potato stored enough starch, and the harvest was just in time. After the sweet potatoes are planed out, they are divided into families, and then they are put into pieces in the ground and dried, and then put on the shed (put a few pieces of wood on the beams, and then put the foil made of sorghum oranges), which is both rat-proof and moisture-proof, and the staple food for one year is reserved.

At that time, our family had a large population, and the hardest thing was my mother. On the day of pancake rolling, I got up before dawn, put on a donkey, and ground it to start the first process of pancake making-crushing dried melons. The ground noodles were not very fine, and I had to go through the basket again to make fine sweet potato powder. At about seven or eight o'clock, my mother took care of us after dinner, and we began to soak the sweet potato powder in water, which is called mixing the seeds. Then we put it in a coarse cloth bag, tied the mouth tightly, put it on a millstone and pressed out dark brown water with a big stone, and the raw materials were ready.

here comes the hardest last process-rolling pancakes. This is a technical job. A round rice seed with a square meter burns wood grain, and the heat is the most important. If it is too hot, the pancakes will be burnt, but if it is cold, it will be unfamiliar. The roe deer must also be wet and dry properly. Dig out a piece, make it into an oval shape, rub it with an oilcloth, start rolling, about two times, and a pancake will be finished. Finally, scrape off the thick and thin place with a bamboo batch, and a fragrant and crisp pure melon pancake will be finished, and it will be repeated. It will be busy until the evening, and dozens of kilograms of pancakes will be piled up for more than one meter, which is enough for the whole family to eat.

after more than 4 years, dried sweet potato pancakes have raised generations of people in my hometown, and the pure manual work of rolling pancakes has gradually been replaced by machines. The staple food in my hometown has also changed from pancakes to steamed bread, sesame cakes and other diversification, and people's lives have also changed from poverty to well-off. Pure dried sweet potato pancakes have also changed from staple food to snacks and even become a traditional snack to get rich. If hometown people go to town to visit their relatives, they are even more popular than delicacies.

In order to carry forward the pancake culture and avoid the loss of this traditional craft, beautiful countryside, my hometown, has made great efforts to build a rural tourism brand, re-established the shuttlecock, and performed the pancake rolling technology for tourists on the spot. The pancake rolling is rejuvenating her youth. The dried melon pancake welcomes visitors from all directions with its unique charm of sweetness and crispness, and continues to nurture generations of hometown people.