Spring pancakes are also a special delicacy during the Spring Festival, so where is this specialty? How to make spring pancakes delicious? Let’s introduce them together!

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Eating spring cakes is one of the Chinese folk customs of eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring. In some areas, there is a custom of eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring. Spring cakes in the Northeast and Beijing are the most delicious. It is said that spring cakes, as a traditional Chaozhou snack, are derived from the ancient Chaozhou folk snacks. The evolution of spring pancakes needs to be verified. Spring pancakes are pancakes baked with flour, usually rolled into vegetables. At first, spring pancakes and vegetables were put on a plate, which became a "spring plate". "Baojing" records: "At the beginning of spring, we eat radish, spring pancakes, and lettuce, and we call them spring pans." From the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the popularity of eating spring pancakes became more and more popular, and there are records of the emperor giving spring pancakes to officials at the beginning of spring. The Ming Dynasty's "Yandu Tour Chronicles" records: "On every spring day, (the emperor) gives spring cakes to all officials at the Meridian Gate." By the Qing Dynasty, the vegetable fillings eaten with spring cakes became more abundant. Now, people prepare side dishes or various When cooking and eating spring pancakes, you can randomly put them into the pancakes. Eating spring pancakes at the beginning of spring means welcoming spring and praying for a good harvest.

Where is spring pancakes from?

Noodles eaten at the beginning of spring in ancient times Pancakes, baked very thin, are also called pancakes. When eaten with several kinds of lettuce, they are called spring pancakes. Every year at the beginning of spring, Beijingers eat spring pancakes, which are called "biting spring pancakes". There are also spring pancakes in the south of the Yangtze River, but the cooking method is different. North.

How to make spring pancakes

--Put the flour into a bowl, slowly pour in the boiling water, and stir into a flocculent form.

--Knead the dough Form into a dough and set aside to rest for 30 minutes with the lid closed.

--Knead the rested dough until it is smooth again, roll it into a stick, and divide it into small portions.

--Each portion Flatten and roll it into a round dough.

--Take a piece of dough and apply some oil, then cover it with another piece of dough, so that 6-8 pieces of dough are covered to form one point.

--Roll out the dough into a slightly thin round shape, rolling both sides in turn

--After the pot is hot (do not add oil), turn to low heat and put the thinly rolled dough into the pot. Flip over after baking for about half a minute.

-Use a fork or chopsticks to lift the baked side from the side and place it in another basin (cover it with something).

-- Repeat this in turn until both sides are cooked, then lift them up.

How to eat spring pancakes

There are many ingredients for spring pancakes. It takes a lot of effort to put them into your mouth smoothly without falling apart. In the rolling method of spring cakes, put the croissant onions, sweet noodle sauce, chopped clear sauce meat, eggs, fried spinach, leeks, yellow flower vermicelli, bean sprouts, etc. on the spring cakes in order. Tool - chopsticks.

Place the chopsticks on the spring cake, roll up one side of the spring cake along the chopsticks, wrap the lower end upward, hold it with your hands, roll up the other side, and put it away Put the chopsticks out one by one on the plate. People with good skills will roll out spring pancake rolls as big as their own mouths, making it easier to bite. This rolling method is also suitable for roast duck.

In terms of eating time, the ancient custom of eating spring pancakes at the beginning of spring is still popular in most areas. In some areas of Fujian and Guangdong, pancakes are eaten before and after Qingming Festival. In Zhangzhou, Fujian, there is a custom of eating spring pancakes before Qingming Festival. Legend: In the early years of the Qing Dynasty , Zheng Chenggong attacked Zhangzhou and killed dozens of people. Since there was no coffin to bury, they had to be buried in a sweep. Later, they rolled up pancakes to commemorate them