Pot helmets are a specialty food in western Henan, mainly prevalent in Hancheng, Lotus Pond area! It is very simple to make, and anyone who can steam a bun can do it! Dough, add condiments (green onions, defense powder, oil) into a long cake, a cake about four two flour! With a large iron pot with a little water dry hard chewy, crispy inside and outside, white and shiny, mellow flavor. Pot helmet is Shaanxi, Gansu and other places have been passed down for a long time folk snacks, from grandma to grandchildren to congratulate the gift of the month, after the development of flavor and convenience of food. People often say, "Qianxian have three treasures, pot helmet, hanging noodles, tofu brain."

Pot helmets are no exception, from the beginning of the white flour soon developed into salt and pepper, brown sugar and then a variety of fillings, all can think of ingredients can be paired with pot helmets. In the past, white flour and salt and pepper were still sold in popular stores, but brown sugar pot helmets have been hard to find. How to make a pot helmet: Let the dough rise for a while. When the pot is hot, put in the rolled out noodles (one centimeter thick). After a minute, use chopsticks to poke a few eyes, reverse the buckle in the pot, do not press down. Cover the pot with a lid. Turn down the heat, very small yell. Simmer for twenty minutes.

Shaanxi eight strange pancakes like a pot lid, this is what people call the pot helmet, also known as dry buns, the earliest legend of the pot helmet, there is an ancient time of slavery, really hungry, with a helmet as a pot set up a fire to bake the cake, people call this cake helmet helmet helmet helmet is one of the eight strange in Shaanxi. People say "open-eyed helmet like a pot lid", that is, like a helmet, as the name suggests and called the pot helmet. Helmet production process is fine, known as "dry, crispy, white, fragrant". Dry hard chewy, crispy inside and outside, white and light, mellow flavor.

Become a helmet through the branding, salty mouth and pancakes, a bit of salt and oil and a little five-spice powder, live surface (low gluten flour) slightly harder, do a good job as a round cake a little thicker, by the branding of hard helmets, due to the water contained in very little dry and hard hard and not easy to be bad, can be stored for a longer period of time, it is convenient to travel and carry convenient to eat. Take so far to go certainly not made delicious.