Tobacco seed is a unique tool in Shandong province, and it is a tool for making pasta from ancient times to the present. Pancakes are the staple food in Shandong. Today, there is a traditional custom that "every family supports cigarettes and every household bakes pancakes".

1967 Dongyanglou Village, Shengzhuang Town, Tai 'an City discovered the "separation contract" in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, which contained "a plate of cigarettes and 23 kilograms of pancakes". As a result of the appearance of "Xunzi", we can be sure that the modern pancake making method existed at the latest in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

Shandong pancakes originated from Mount Tai and have a history of more than 1000 years. It can be seen that pancakes were already the staple food of Taian people at that time. Legend has it that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Huang Chao Uprising Army was stationed in Mount Tai, and the local people sent pancakes to each other. Pancakes are the most common and distinctive food in southern Shandong and southwestern Shandong.

The traditional way of heating tobacco is to burn firewood and straw at the bottom of tobacco, and smoke and burn. By the early 1980s, firewood was gradually withdrawn from the market. With the pace of reform and opening-up, pancake machines came into being, and pancakes became commercialized.

Jinao is a kind of rotary cylinder, and the inside of the cylinder is heated by burning coal.

Since then, the custom of "every family supports cigarettes and every household bakes pancakes" has gradually faded out of people's sight. Through the development of the market for decades, people feel the importance of eating handmade pancakes, and citizens need health. With the development of science and technology, new energy, and the birth of electromagnetic pancakes with electromagnetic heating technology, electromagnetic pancakes have been low-carbon and environmentally friendly, and pancakes have bid farewell to smoky fires.

Extended data

There are three main tools for flipping pancakes:

One is round, made of iron, with large, medium and small sizes. The medium-sized tobacco has a diameter of about 65 cm, a slightly convex center and three legs. The lower part is heated with firewood or coal, and pancakes can be baked on it. Xunzi is a special tool for baking pancakes. There is a note "Xunzi" in Kangxi Dictionary, and there is a phrase "Cooked Xunzi" in the book of the government and the people in the Tang Dynasty, which shows that pancakes have a long history.

The second is to hold a tool used to push the paste. The locals call it "Chi Zi", which is a wooden plate-shaped arc with a handle. After putting the paste on the hot tobacco, push it around with a chizi, and the paste will spread thinly on the surface of the tobacco. Some of them use a shovel, and some use a "bamboo chop", which has the same effect, but the pancakes baked have their own characteristics.

The third is the oil wiper, which is called the oil wiper by the masses. It is a square wiper sewn with more than ten layers of cloth, and it is soaked with cooking oil to wipe the tobacco, so as to prevent the pancakes from sticking.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tobacco Seed

Baidu Encyclopedia-Shandong Pancake