From the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, eating spring cakes became more and more popular, and it was recorded that the emperor gave spring cakes to officials in the spring.
Spring cakes are simple in materials, convenient to make, flexible and chewy in taste, and can be eaten in a variety of ways. They are wrapped as side dishes, eaten as staple food alone and fried cakes.
Spring cake, also called lotus leaf cake and pancake, is a kind of pancake. It is a traditional food in China. It is simple in materials, easy to make, flexible and chewy in taste, and can be eaten in a variety of ways. It can be wrapped as a side dish, eaten as a staple food alone and fried cakes.
Spring pancake is a kind of double-layer pancake baked with hot noodles, and it is eaten without cover. Nowadays, all restaurants use duck cakes with rolled roast duck instead. The dish that rolls spring cakes is called "He (pronounced" or ") dish", which is made of bean sprouts and vermicelli with seasoning, stir-fried or mixed. In addition, it should be served with hot dishes such as fried spinach, fried leek and scrambled eggs, as well as cooked meat called "box lunch", such as elbow flower with sauce, bacon with sauce and oven meat (all of which should be shredded).
If you eat at home, these dishes are all bought from "box restaurants" (shops selling cooked meat, such as Xidan Tianfu). Cooked meat shops will put cooked meat in exquisite boxes when delivering goods, and put the boxes on their own dining tables when eating. After the customer has finished eating the meat, the butcher shop will take back the box. Vegetables are called "box vegetables" because they are packed in boxes, while cooked meat shops are called "box shops" because they are full of spare boxes against the wall.
Eating spring cakes in restaurants can be ordered according to your own taste. If you are alone, you can have a "fried quilt cover"-a yellow dish (egg) at the bottom of the bowl, which is more vivid!
You can also order some meat, onions, coriander and sweet sauce, and roll them up to eat. Very delicious.
The earliest spring cakes were pancakes baked or steamed with wheat flour. When eating, it is often eaten with fried vegetables such as bean sprouts, spinach, leeks and vermicelli, or with spring cakes and Chinese cabbage. Legend has it that eating spring cakes and all kinds of vegetables wrapped in them will make farm animals flourish. Some areas believe that eating spring cakes wrapped in celery and leeks will make people work harder, live longer and have a more prosperous family business. With the development of time, the shape and eating time of spring cakes vary from place to place.
In beginning of spring season, spring returns to the earth, and the green onions are tender. Eating spring cakes dipped in sweet noodle sauce and rolling green onions is called "biting spring". But Beijingers pay more attention to cooking when they eat spring cakes. They want to shred leeks, vermicelli and spinach, fry them, mix them together, and call them "Cai He" to roll spring cakes. In addition, there are ways to eat cooked meat such as shredded pork with sauce, shredded chicken and shredded belly. Pay attention to wrapping it up and eating it from beginning to end, which is called "having a head and a tail".
There are a lot of raw materials for spring cakes. To put them into your mouth smoothly, the kung fu lies in the rolling method of spring cakes. Add chopped green onion, sweet noodle sauce, cut sauce meat, scrambled eggs, fried spinach and leeks, yellow vermicelli, bean sprouts, etc. Put them on the spring cakes in turn, and the code is neat. At this time, you will use an important tool-chopsticks.
Put chopsticks on the spring cake, roll up one side of the spring cake along the chopsticks, wrap the lower end up, hold it with your hands, roll up the other side, roll it up and put it on the plate, and then take out the chopsticks one by one. Skilled people will roll out spring pancake rolls as big as their mouths for easy biting. This rolling method is also suitable for roast duck.
In terms of eating time, the ancient custom of eating spring cakes is still popular in most areas, and some areas in Fujian and Guangdong eat pancakes around Tomb-Sweeping Day. In Zhangzhou, Fujian, there is a legend about Tomb-Sweeping Day eating spring cakes: in the early Qing Dynasty, Zheng successfully attacked Zhangzhou, killing dozens of people. Because there was no coffin to bury, he had to sacrifice and sweep, and then eat pancakes as a souvenir.