I spent my childhood in the countryside in the suburbs of Beijing, and there are many delicious things in my memory.
1. Oil residue pancake
Oil residue is the residue left after refining with pig fat oil, water oil and intestinal oil. First, make oil residue with hot water, then chop it up, add wheat flour, and make it into harder pancake noodles. Then roll it out on the big case with a needle and roll it as thin as possible. Fourth, in order to increase its salty taste and more layering, we should spread some peanut oil on the cake, sprinkle some fine salt on it, then roll it up, then roll it into a disc, then gently roll it out, make it into a pancake and put it in a woodpot.
Its cakes are fragrant, fleshy and have many layers. Oil is in it, but it is more beautiful when exposed. Lard is a high-grade food in the era of material shortage. Its price exceeds that of lean meat and it is also very popular. Buying it usually requires a reservation. Of course, no one wants lard now, and few people make pancakes with oil residue. Neighbors once laughed and said, "In the past 30 years, everything has gone up except big oil."
2. sesame paste candy cake
Sesame paste candy cake can be regarded as a good staple food. In the cross talk "Fishing", "Second Dad" said, "Ernian, bake me two candy cakes, and I'll go there with my eyes closed to get 180 pieces!" This candy cake is extraordinary!
The method of sesame paste sugar cake is very simple, which is similar to making ordinary pancakes: wheat flour and pancake noodles are proofed, then the noodles are rolled into round pieces on the panel, coated with sesame paste, sprinkled with brown sugar sauce, rolled from bottom to top, then rolled into a round shape, sprinkled with fine noodles, rolled into cakes, placed in a woodpot, and brushed with peanut oil when baking. Its cakes are soft and delicious, and its porridge is delicious. Now some staple foods also sell sesame paste candy cakes in the kitchen, but I still think my mother baked the best.
Break the egg
I can't find the right picture. Boiled egg, also called "iron spoon egg", is a snack that rural old women often make for their children. Slang often says, "If you have a headache and sweat, I will break an iron spoon for you." In the past, in the countryside, when a child was possessed or greedy, the old lady would beat an egg in a bowl, add some salty salt, put it in a hot iron spoon, turn it over and lick it. There are also people who directly beat the eggs in an iron spoon, but the spoon must be hot and rotate quickly, and there is no need to add any oil to the spoon. This kind of cracked egg keeps the natural fragrance and beauty of the egg, with a little salty taste, which is very suitable for the stomach. Especially the fresh eggs laid by rural chickens are more interesting. Now that the material is rich, eggs are bought in the supermarket, and chickens in chicken farms have laid eggs, and no one eats like this.
4. Yu Qian
In spring, some elms will grow a bunch of light green seeds before flowering. These seeds are small and round with a round bulge in the middle. This is the seed of elm, which is elm money. Yu Qian, pronounced as "Yu Qian 'er" in spoken language. Because it is round and thin like a coin, it gets its name, and because it is a homonym of "surplus money", there is a saying that eating surplus money can have "surplus money"
Spring is a delicious time. Out of date, old, you can't eat it. At this time, friends climbed the tree, brushed elm money basket by basket, and took it home to cook a lot of food. For example, glutinous rice, glutinous rice cake, glutinous rice cake ... The simplest and most skillful way is to pick the big and good fresh glutinous rice from the tree and put it in the basket after eating enough. When the children who can't climb the tree want to eat the fresh elm money under the tree, the children on the tree will pick the place where the elm money grows densely and throw one or two branches for them to eat. This is a childhood fun, and it is still sweet to recall, but today they can't climb trees and enjoy it!