So Lei Ge couldn't help showing off on the Internet, but someone commented: The pancake fruit you made is too authentic, the materials used are wrong, and the way and method of making it are wrong. While being hit, Lei Ge couldn't help thinking.
This article is divided into three parts. The first part is to show the pancake fruit made by yourself; The second part is the history of authentic pancake fruit; The third part is the reflection on the concept of' authenticity' and the rhetorical question extended from it.
Normal pancake fruit also needs lettuce, fried dough sticks and crispy. Because of the hasty preparation, I didn't have these materials at home, so I only used ham sausage, tofu and cucumber, cut these three into thin strips, and cut a chive into chopped green onion. Lei Ge thinks that it is the lack of materials that is the main reason why some people think it is not authentic.
Add 200 grams of flour to neutralize the flour to make a batter, and leave it for 20 minutes. You don't need much flour to make pancake fruit. We are prepared to eat for three people.
Heat the electric baking pan, brush a thin layer of oil inside, pour the batter into the electric baking pan and spread it evenly with a shovel. As thin as possible, the better, thinner is easier to cook and tastes better. This step is a key step, which tests the technology very much.
When the batter is a little hard and will become a cake, beat an egg on it, without mixing it into egg liquid, and beat the egg directly on the cake, which looks better. The egg white is snow white, the yolk is golden yellow, and the yellow and white are intertwined and reflect each other, which makes it look more beautiful.
Before the eggs are solidified, sprinkle some black sesame seeds on them, then sprinkle chopped green onion in them, and wait for three minutes. At this time, the bottom side is almost cooked, and the omelet looks very beautiful, which is somewhat like pancake fruit.
Carefully shovel the cake from the electric baking pan and turn it over. Neatly place ham strips, cucumber strips, and tofu strips, and apply special sauce to taste of pancake fruit. Dao is seasoned by sauces. The pancakes on the breakfast stand outside are very rich in sauces, including sweet noodle sauce, hot sauce and bean curd.
In another three or five minutes, the pancake fruit will be cooked, rolled up and put on the plate. One after another * * * made three pancake fruits. The first one was a little thick, and it was broken when it was rolled up. It was not successful. The better it was done in the end, it was a bit pleasing to the eye. I didn't expect the pancake fruit I made at home to be so beautiful.
The family sat down to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Although it was not as crispy as the pancake fruit bought at the breakfast stall, it tasted delicious and delicious, and they felt that the nutrition was perfect.
When it comes to the source of pancake fruit, friends will think of Shandong and Tianjin.
First of all, pancakes originated in Shandong. According to folklore, pancakes were invented by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period. Once Zhuge Liang lost the battle and was besieged by Cao Jun at the Yishui River in Shandong. Because all the cooking utensils of the rotor army were lost, Zhuge Liang asked the soldiers to cook on the gong, so he created pancakes. Nowadays, pancakes are still the staple food of local people in Linyi, western Shandong.
The history of pancake fruit originated from the Ming Dynasty. At that time, there were frequent business exchanges between Shandong and Tianjin. Some businessmen from Shandong brought pancakes to Tianjin, and people in Tianjin created a classic snack of pancake fruit on the basis of pancakes, which quickly swept the country north and south.
People who sell pancake fruit can often be seen at breakfast stalls and community gates in every city. A car and a set of delicious pancake fruit can be made in only three minutes. Moreover, there are many grades to choose from, such as adding eggs and not adding eggs, adding intestines and not adding intestines.
Pancake fruit has a fragrance of bean noodles, rolled with eggs and crispy, smeared with spicy sauce and seasoned chopped green onion. No matter the taste of the chewed head and the mouth, it is very exciting and refreshing, giving people a hearty feeling. You can enjoy such delicious food for only a few yuan, so pancake fruit is favored all over the country.
The raw material of traditional pancake fruit is mung bean flour, but in the later period, there are many ways to use white flour, yellow bean and black bean flour. But the stubborn Tianjin people still like the traditional mung bean noodle method best. Now, the pancake fruit in Tianjin has become an intangible cultural heritage.
Tianjin Food & Beverage Association established Tianjin Pancake Fruit Branch in 20 18, and in May of the same year, it issued the technical specifications for pancake fruit making and processing, which made unified specifications and requirements for raw materials, auxiliary materials, sanitary conditions, processing equipment, making process and technological process of pancake fruit.
In the field of food, the word' authentic' is particularly popular. When a food is labeled as authentic, it represents the nobility of blood and can stand out from the crowd. Moreover, people also agree with authentic food very much. If the materials and practices of the same kind of food are different, even if the taste is better, it will be regarded as not authentic.
Brother Lei can't help asking: Why did this authentic food come from at first? Did authentic food suddenly fall from the sky? Push forward 100, what kind of food is authentic? Push forward 1000, what food is authentic? What kind of food is authentic when human beings are still eating and drinking blood?
Any kind of food is created by continuous improvement on the basis of ancestors. Even the most basic ingredients such as vegetables, fruits and grain. It was also our ancestors who selected the original seeds that were most suitable for eating, and after generations of optimal cultivation, they evolved into what we see today.
Every dish of food comes from careful study by people, or from accidental mistakes. For example, tofu milk and tofu skin are new varieties that appear only after tofu has been damaged, so beautiful mistakes abound in food sessions.
Just like today's pancake fruit, it is also a delicious food created by Tianjin people on the basis of pancakes. If every kind of food pretends to be authentic, and other practices and eating methods are heretical, how can there be thousands of varied foods in our great country?
Although unified standards and norms are good, they are more conducive to safety management and opening chain stores, but they undoubtedly affect the creativity and imagination of practitioners. Lei Ge hopes that gourmets will try, integrate, improve and innovate constantly on the existing basis, and develop more new dishes and delicacies.
Authentic only represents your taste tradition, and you have inherited the achievements of predecessors, and there is nothing to be proud of. What you are really proud of is that you have made some improvements and innovations to make traditional food more suitable for modern tastes.
I still remember someone said before that authentic hot pot must be heated with copper hot pot and charcoal fire. I don't know where such an authentic hot pot is living now. The ingredients are changing, the fuel is changing, the kitchen utensils are changing, and the tastes of diners are changing. Why can't authentic food change?
Lei Ge believes that the standard of appreciating food, according to the traditional color, fragrance and taste, plus the requirements of modern nutrition and health, meets the above points, which is the best food. As for the authenticity, just look at it as a feeling, as long as everyone is free.