The North-South I'm talking about is not the North-South of the Yangtze River, but the North-South of the Yellow River. Isn't there a hysterical saying? Henan and Hebei - two provinces. I said the noodle soup, Henan called sweet soup, Hebei called pimple soup, the flavor has a thousand different, do not believe you go to taste?
Pimple soup, is the old home of Ji'nan's home cooking, an ordinary can no longer be ordinary noodle soup. Cooking is a little more complicated than Henan noodle soup. First of all, take two tomatoes, boiling water to remove the skin and chopped; ready onion and garlic, garlic to be more flavor; wash a handful of spinach and cut a small section of spare. All ready, hit the fire hot pot cool oil, the onion and garlic burst out of the flavor, pour into the tomatoes fried soup, put salt and chicken essence, add water. Before the water rolls, take a large point of the basin, put the right amount of flour, with a small spray bottle sprinkle water, sprinkle water while shaking, shaking speed should be fast, the dough lumps naturally generated, and then mix well. At this point the pot is boiling, pour in the lumps and push them apart to prevent them from sticking to the bottom of the pot. When the water boils again, beat in two egg flowers, add spinach after molding, drizzle a few drops of sesame oil, and then it is ready to be served. Pimple soup, red, green and yellow, color, flavor and aroma, mouth-watering.
Hebei pimple soup has a history, according to legend, a long time ago, there is an old woman, to see her daughter married for many years. Daughter could not get a decent meal to entertain, in a hurry, the existing things out of the family, made a bowl of soup, put potatoes, vegetables, eggs, honoring the mother. Mother ate, very happy to say: "really delicious, really fragrant." The daughter then put her heart down. As long as her mother came to see her, she would give her mother to do a bowl of goosebumps soup, she thought as long as her mother liked is the best.
In the western part of Henan Province, the noodle soup is called sweet soup because, without any spices, it is simpler to cook than the lumpy soup in Hebei, without all those oil and salt vegetables. Making noodle lumps is also different from Hebei. First, take half a bowl of flour, add water and stir into dough, pour water to soak the dough in water, this is called wake up, wake up is to let the dough form gluten process, of course, a little longer better. Then, pour out the excess water in the bowl, stir vigorously, stir vigorously, stir the appropriate consistency, can naturally slide down the pan is appropriate. Slowly pour the batter into the pot, stirring slowly if you want to eat big lumps, stirring faster if you want to eat small lumps. Most people in Henan like to eat small lumps, or no lumps. When the pot opens again, beat two egg flowers into it. Sometimes, the pot is opened to beat a few eggs, then stir the batter; sometimes, the eggs are not beaten, look like Hebei paste couplets paste, not so thick just. The sweet soup, bright and transparent, original flavor, exudes the sweet smell of wheat, light and refreshing.
It is said that Henan women sit in the month, a month does not go out, the mother-in-law every day to the daughter-in-law to do sweet soup, said sweet soup nutritious milk, you do not believe that the daughter-in-law in the month, each eating white and fat, can not help but say that the sweet soup moisturizing. Sweet soup is commonly known, Henan first big complementary God soup.
Henan and Hebei, separated by a river, the practice of noodle soup is very different, let a person sigh, sigh, I suddenly found that there are a lot of different: not only is the name is different, Hebei called pimple soup, Henan is called sweet soup; practice is different, Hebei is called mixing pimple, Henan is called stirring the noodle soup; taste is also different, Hebei pimple soup is mostly salty, Henan most of the sweet, can be sweetened; Legends are also different, pimple soup is a daughter to honor her mother to eat, and the pimple soup is a daughter to honor her mother to eat, and the pimple soup is a daughter to honor her mother to eat. is a daughter to honor her mother to eat, sweet soup is a mother-in-law to serve her daughter-in-law to eat during the month; more interestingly, Hebei morning, noon and night are eating pimple soup, and Henan mostly eat in the morning and evening, especially at night mostly. So, when Hebei people meet, will ask you to eat? Henan people meet in the morning at noon to ask, eat? Evening never asked, but asked: "drink soup?" Answer: "Drink, bun vegetable soup." The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do it.
As the saying goes, one side of the water and soil to raise a person. This is the charm of food culture, this is the difference in regional customs, you know?
Hebei Province, Jize County Party Committee Propaganda Department? Li Jianjun