Tongchuan is located in the middle of Shaanxi, on the southern edge of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, with east longitude1083520 "-1092904" and north latitude 3448 16-3535 16. It borders Baishui County, pucheng county County and Fuping County in Weinan in the east and southeast, Xunyi County, Chunhua County and Sanyuan County in Xianyang in the west and south, and Luochuan County and huangling county County in Yan 'an in the north and northwest.
Snowflake sugar
Yaozhou snowflake candy is a specialty of Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province. Yaozhou snowflake sugar, commonly known as "dross sugar", has been praised by people for a hundred years and is the first of the four major sugars in Guanzhong. It is sweet and crisp, with unique flavor, and has the effects of invigorating stomach, moistening intestines, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
Yaozhou snowflake sugar, commonly known as "slag sugar", is a traditional specialty with a long reputation in Yaozhou, which is well-known all over the world. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has been a tribute of the imperial court for many years, with a long history of hundreds of years.
Snowflake sugar has been praised by people for a hundred years, and it is the first of the four major sugars in Guanzhong (Xianyang Amber Sugar, Sanyuan Polygonum Flower Sugar, Fuping Guo Qiong Sugar and Yaozhou Snowflake Sugar). It is sweet and crisp, with unique flavor, and has the effects of invigorating stomach, moistening intestines, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. During the Republic of China, there was a folk song: "Yaozhou City is surrounded by four directions, and snowflake candy is delicious. It can strengthen the stomach, moisten the intestines, and has strong antitussive and expectorant effects. If you have money, don't buy anything, buy snowflake candy first. " Nowadays, elderly Yaozhou people can recite snowflake candy fluently from time to time when they mention it.
Big cherry
Big cherry is the earliest mature tree species in deciduous fruit trees, and is known as "the first branch of spring fruit". Its bright color, delicious taste and rich fragrance are known as fruit treasures. At present, it is the concentrated listing period of cherry in greenhouse. Although the greenhouse cherry is only listed more than a month earlier than the open cherry, the price can be several times higher. Nowadays, planting cherries in greenhouses has become an important channel for farmers to increase their income and get rich. However, large cherry fruits are not resistant to storage and transportation, and often rot due to improper post-harvest treatment, thus reducing or losing the commodity value. Therefore, the harvesting, packaging and storage methods of big cherry are introduced as follows:
Big cherry fruit is more suitable for harvesting when it is eight ripe. Keep the fruit stalks when harvesting, and handle them gently; The bottom and sides of the fruit basket should be covered with paper to avoid damaging the fruit. Harvest should be carried out on sunny days with low temperature and in the morning or evening after dew drying.
Wo Wo noodles
Yaozhou Wo Wo Noodles is a special snack in Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province. Yaozhou Wo Wo noodles are brightly colored, and the meat foam enters the noodle Wo Wo. Due to the mushroom broth, the taste is tender, smooth and fragrant, which can be described as full of color and flavor.
Yaoxian County (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City) was called Yaozhou in ancient times, and it still retains a famous snack-Wo Wo noodles. Wo Wo noodles in history are not pasta, but essential soup for local weddings, funerals, 4: 08 festivals and ordinary people's banquets in Yaozhou. As the name implies, "Wowomian" is named because its material is like nest-like pasta.
Wo Wo noodles pay attention to ingredients and special cooking, which is a typical kung fu. The method is as follows: mix the best white flour with egg yolk, knead it into hard dough (it is said that a young person will sweat all over and breathe for a long time when rubbing 10 kg of hard dough), then roll the dough out, cut it into dice, and press the dice dough into nests one by one with a special tool similar to the semi-circle of chopsticks head; The key is to choose the best Tricholoma, pour chicken and broth on it and steam it in a cage for later use. When cooking, put the steamed Tricholoma into the chicken and broth pot for stewing, and put a proper amount of meat into the soup pot to break it into seven-cooked meat foam, and then put it into the basically cooked nest noodles. Before cooking, add chopped green onion, Jiang Mo, fried egg slices, coriander and walnut slices.
Camellia oleifera paomo
Camellia oleifera bread in soup is a common traditional dish of Han nationality in Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province. Locals often cook breakfast.
When eating, the camellia oleifera is chopped, put into a boiling water pot, put into salted noodles and stirred into a paste. Then break the steamed buns (Guo kui, sesame seed cake, steamed buns) into small pieces in the bowl, pick up the fried camellia oil and pour it two or three times until it is thoroughly poured. Finally, fill it with Camellia oleifera, sprinkle a little onion and Jiang Mo. Taste mellow and delicious, salty and delicious, oily but not greasy, hunger and satiety. In addition, eggs can be added to camellia oleifera to make it more delicious.
This kind of camellia oleifera is not only mellow and palatable, but also rich in nutrition and has the effect of nourishing the body. Because the production is simple, many Yaoxian people are used to frying some in winter. Early in the morning, according to the number of people, cooking bowls on the stove and soaking them in steamed bread is a convenient and nutritious breakfast. This is beneficial to those who have old people and patients at home, which can nourish their bodies and promote their health.
This kind of camellia oleifera is not sesame almond oil tea, but a kind of camellia oleifera fried with animal oil and flour. It has a long history. It is understood that it was sold in the Qing Dynasty and is still popular among the people. This kind of camellia oleifera is generally made by mixing refined cattle and sheep oil with a little lard and vegetable oil, melting in a pot, adding flour, and repeatedly stirring and frying with a shovel. When the oil and noodles are evenly fried into a yellow paste, they are considered to be ripe, then they are scooped into pots and bowls, cooled and solidified into pieces for eating. The proportion of ingredients is one catty of oil, one catty of half flour or two catty of flour.
Honey pumpkin
Nutritional efficacy:
1. Detoxification: It contains vitamins and pectin, has good adsorption, can combine and eliminate bacterial toxins and other harmful substances in the body, such as lead, mercury and radioactive elements in heavy metals, and can play a detoxification role;
2. Prevent diabetes and lower blood sugar: Pumpkin is rich in cobalt, which can activate human metabolism, promote hematopoietic function and participate in the synthesis of vitamin B 12. It is an essential trace element for human islet cells, which has a special effect on preventing diabetes and lowering blood sugar.
3. Protect gastric mucosa and help digestion: Pectin contained in pumpkin can also protect gastric mucosa from the stimulation of coarse grains and promote ulcer healing, which is suitable for patients with gastric diseases. The ingredients contained in pumpkin can promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion;
4. Elimination of carcinogens: Pumpkin can eliminate the mutation of nitrosamine, which is a carcinogen, and it can prevent cancer, help the recovery of liver and kidney functions, and enhance the regeneration ability of liver and kidney cells;