Noodles, the ancient name "river leakage". Legend has it that during the Kangxi years of the Qing Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor assigned a special person to the country's flavorful snacks for statistical reporting, "river leakage" as one of the reported to the court, because of the name of the oddity caused by the Kangxi Emperor's attention, he ordered people to do a good job of tasting, eating after the praise. But because of the name "river leakage" of the harmonic and governance of the river is not coordinated, the heart is not happy, so the pen will "river leakage" changed to "noodles".
Shahe is located in the Xinghan junction area, noodles are considered a kind of native edge. Especially people who have experienced the difficult times, must not forget the years of sweet potatoes. At that time of the year, every family's crop field, in front of the house, behind the house will be planted with sweet potatoes, everywhere into the world of sweet potatoes. Once the frost came, the ground under the sweet potato seedlings cracked and rumbled, and the sweet potatoes were ripe. In order to facilitate better preservation of sweet potatoes, people will be sliced sweet potatoes, when the white flower wet potato chips were a pile of a piece of sheet spread out to dry through, into the stone mortar mashed, and then on the mill on the grinding of sweet potato noodles.
The specialty of noodles is the practice. Fine as ash sweet potato flour was put into the basin and stirred on the water, by the skillful housewife carefully kneaded and, in the twinkling of an eye, a lump of dark brown sweet potato flour smooth and clean out of the living. It is an important part of the process of making noodles by steaming it on a drawer into a potato noodle nest.
Every three days, the housewife wants to improve the food for the whole family, will certainly do a fried noodles to eat to the family to relieve their hunger. The beds of noodles are not available in every house, and there are only a few in a village. Therefore, a day to eat buckwheat, there are buckwheat beds of the family early in the long line, no matter whose family to eat a sweet potato buckwheat noodles are like a festival like a grand. At this time you can always see the naked boys, carrying strange shaped stools on their shoulders, in the streets and lanes in a hurry, in fact, carrying is the noodles beds: four-legged stools, stools in the center of the surface of a round hole, the bottom of the hole masked with iron, iron drilling countless fine holes. A sturdy wooden bar fixed at one end of the bench, bar waist installation of round wooden piston, inserted into the round hole seamless, up and down freely.
The bed of the noodle has just been put in place, the sweet potato noodle nest is out of the pot! The housewives, while puffing their cheeks and blowing away the steam, rushed out of the steaming kitchen with steaming, dark brown, crystal-clear nests. The steamed potato flour nests are put into the bucket of the bed of noodles while they are still hot, and with a strong pressure, the thick and solid nests are crushed into thin lines in the twinkling of an eye, and fall down neatly, paralyzing the panels under the bed of chrome noodles. Dried sweet potato noodles pressed out of the noodles not only gluten, soft and long, and exudes a sweet potato flavor, this flavor through the nose into the lungs, will induce people to salivate. A sumptuous meal has already taken shape.
The pressed noodles are spread out and cooled, and can be eaten cold or fried. The oil in the frying pan is hot, first choking the pan, and then put into the noodles, in the process of stir-frying, quickly stirred to avoid sticking to the pan, take advantage of the situation into the seasoning, can be out of the pot in the blink of an eye. Instantly, a cooked aroma to the face. The dark brown noodles are oily, which are interspersed with turquoise greens, with golden scrambled eggs, the color is pre-eminent! Take a bite, tendon soft and creamy, fresh, salty and sweet; and then mixed with a large spoonful of chili oil, that's the real hearty! After eating, a wipe of the mouth, soothe the muscles and bones, the body has an indescribable pleasure! Although not luxurious, but very satisfied.
A lot of Shahe people since the beginning of remember, noodles are all the way along with the growth of delicious. When used to quench the appetite of coarse food, now has evolved into a health eating and local specialties. From the point of view of local flavor, local characteristics to summarize the bowl of fried noodles, nutritious and delicious, simple and simple, subtle and refreshing, not enough to be generous, but more than a reminiscent of it can be used as a unique label it.
In fact, noodles are not unique to Shahe, in many parts of the country are circulating a variety of customs to eat noodles. But in Shahe, a bowl of vegetarian fried sweet potato noodles simple mellow flavor, I do not know how many people haunting, as long as the word see "fried noodles", many people's tongue taste buds lightning will be mixed with the memory and flavor swept away.
Especially those who are in the countryside, as long as the traveler remembers the thick oil smoke in the mother to do the bowl of fried noodles, a sour eye nest, all is nostalgia. Fried noodles is the carrier of hometown flavor, continued for many years, will continue.
Author: Bi Luo, the Financial Secretary
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