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The origin of pot helmet bun
First of all, I first introduce what is the pot helmet, pot helmet is a specialty snack in Shaanxi, is made of wheat flour into a billet, and then branded with an iron pot into a kind of cake. Is out to carry the best dry food: about its origin legend many kinds of version; one said this is Zhu Geliang fledgling, after the fire burned Bowangpo, to help Xiang Yu to stabilize the heart of the army made. Another said that the Tang army in the construction of Qianling, due to the number of soldiers and artisans serving too many people, the lack of rations, often to eat and delay the construction process, and be punished. So a soldier in a hurry to put the dough into the helmet, and then put into the fire to bake, and finally branded into a cake, so its name evolved. Pot helmets have been made in Shaanxi for thousands of years, and the process of mixing, kneading, timing, fire, and baking the koan has become more rigorously scrutinized. The flour used to make the cake is the best wheat in the year, the tool to make the pancake should be made of special iron pots, the fire is also very important, some people in the pancake is either paste or not cooked, the reason is that the fire is not mastered well. The local people in doing this pot helmet burned wheat tip is also known as wheat orange, so the flavor will be more fragrant. In the pancake when a turn two turn three scratch is very important: a turn is to keep turning the cake to prevent the phenomenon of scorching, two turn is a good side of the grill and then turn over to grill the other side, three scratch is almost good time to scratch to listen to the sound if the sound of light crunching that proves that it has been good, and then sprinkled with a little sesame seeds can be out of the pot.