The delicacies in Qingxu County include Meng Feng Cake, Xugou Jar Slag, Xugou Dried Bean Curd, Dipping Slice, Xugou Enema, Ba Cake, Qingxu Shaomei and so on. Mengfeng cake: It has a long-standing reputation for its fragrance, crispness, softness, sweetness and coolness, and is praised as the best cake. Xugou tank slag: tank slag has a history of hundreds of years. At first, some people inadvertently put the residue left after eating buckwheat noodles in a pottery rice pot, steamed it, seasoned it with vinegar and garlic after cooking, and had another flavor, so it was named pot residue.
The delicacies in Qingxu County include Meng Feng Cake, Xugou Jar Slag, Xugou Dried Tofu, Dipping Slice, Xugou Enema, Ba Cake, Qingxu Shaomei and so on.
1. Mengfeng Cake: Mengfeng Cake is a unique traditional food in Mengfeng Village, Qingxu County, and has a long-standing reputation for its fragrant, crisp, soft, sweet and cool characteristics. Anyone who has tasted it will call it the best in the cake. For a long time, no matter visiting relatives and friends on holidays, people always try to buy some Meng Feng cakes for their own holidays, and secondly, they can be given to relatives and friends as gifts to show respect for people.
2. Xugou tank residue: tank residue is also called enema, palm filling, bowl taking off and official tasting. Pot slag has a history of hundreds of years. At first, some people inadvertently put the dregs left after eating buckwheat noodles (Xugou people call noodles and soup-like things dregs) in a pottery rice jar, steamed and roasted them, seasoned them with vinegar and garlic after cooking, and named them jar dregs.
3. Xugou Dried Tofu: Xugou is a historic town, Jinyang granary and Hedong trade distribution center. In the early Tang Dynasty, Xugou area was rich in grain, and merchants tried their best to open grain processing shops. According to legend, Xugou dried bean curd originated in this period. Xugou tofu is hard and tough, salty and chewy. First, the raw materials are excellent, second, the water quality is suitable, and third, the production technology is refined.
4. Dip the slice: Shanxi pasta is famous all over the world, and there are many kinds of pasta, among which Qingxu Dip the slice is one of the special pasta. Dipping the film, also called dipping the tip and dragging the leaves, is a kind of pasta cooked with various vegetables dipped in noodles. First, add water to wheat flour or sorghum flour, bean flour and eggs and grind them into paste. Then, dip the vegetables such as Yugu leaves (also called Qinggu leaves and Laolaiqing), beans, eggplant, potatoes, Chinese cabbage leaves and spinach leaves into the paste and cook them. The noodles are even, clear, smooth and refreshing, which makes people never tire of eating.
5. Xugou enema: Xugou enema is a unique local snacks in Xugou Town, Qingxu County, with strong local characteristics. The enema is made of buckwheat noodles, which are gray as porcelain, translucent, non-sticky, soft, tough and elastic. With vinegar and garlic juice, it can be eaten cold or fried hot, which has a unique flavor.
6. Baked bread: Roll the white dough into a round cake the size of a pancake, but twice as thick as a pancake, put it on the half-baked pebbles in the special roller for baking bread, then bury the half-baked pebbles in the prepared strainer on the dough cake, and cover it until the cake is cooked. This kind of small cave formed on the cake surface because of pebbles is still a scar, so it is named Ba cake, which is crispy and delicious, with a strong aroma, and is a famous folk food in Qingxu County.
7. Qingxu Prunus mume: Qingxu Prunus mume is a kind of steamed food, also called steamed dumplings. It is thin and filling, delicious and refreshing, fat but not greasy, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it is. It is not only famous near Qingxu, but also in Jinzhong and Taiyuan.