Baoji pot helmet-century-old, after three generations of evolutionary change and development. Baoji pot helmet has a long history and culture, exquisite workmanship, unique style, with fragrant, crispy, crunchy, tender and dregs and famous.
Shu Han period, Western Sichuan Prime Minister Zhuge Kongming troops Nanchong, to be the northern expedition, in order not to miss the war, the Shu army marching in the abdomen hungry, so set up their helmets, the face and uniformly placed in the helmet, helmet under the burning wood, a few moments, the helmet has been branded as a cake, called the "pot helmet" carry on. Later, the descendant of Bao Gong Bao Yuanheng with the army into Sichuan, learning the army branding helmet craft. For a long time, see the pot helmet shape round face thick, although hunger, but the lack of taste, crispy less than, think long and hard, change the central thin side of the thick, and then feel the aroma, crispy and delicious, since then Baoji pot helmet birth.
"Helmet" has a long history, the package of pot helmet development so far, its descendants follow the pulse of the times, in order to meet market demand at the same time, the taste is also constantly upgraded to meet consumer demand, pot helmet sandwiched between the cold noodles, pig's ear, chicken and so on a variety of spicy and flavorful Szechuan and Hui characteristics of the vegetable side dishes, it is a unique flavor, so that people! Mouth-watering. Fork in the mouth pot helmet, also known as "Fork in the mouth pot kui", also known as "shortening lasagna", has a long history of exquisite workmanship, unique style, with fragrant, crispy, crunchy, tender slag and thus famous in western Sichuan.
It is said that the "pot helmet" is Zhuge Liang invented after the fire Bo Wang. At that time to help Guan Yu "pay the soldiers, collect the heart of the army", the letter said: "more dry noodles, mixed with a little water, and into a hard block, the pot kang, get food for the helmet, to pay the soldiers". Later, pot helmets spread in the north, the practice also has a lot of different. Practice Choose high-quality noodles, mix with the right amount of warm water and repeat the operation, so that it is soft, hard and moderately flexible. The temperature of the water is inversely proportional to the air temperature. The dosage method is unique in that it is based on the principle of mixing the starter noodles (leavened noodles) with the child noodles (raw noodles) as they are beaten. The amount of noodles to be risen depends on how long it takes to mix the sub-mixed noodles. If the time for mixing the sub-men is long, more noodles will be mixed with it; conversely, less noodles will be mixed with it. Then use the pig's raw board oil with the membrane torn off, mixed with star anise, fennel, triple naphthalene, pepper, ginger, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and other spices, chopped up and uncovered velvet, smeared on the elongated skin, rolled and pressed into shape, fried on the frying pan, and finally put in the oven to bake crispy. The finished products are pumpkin, bitter melon, carrot, celery, mushroom, spinach, mixed grain and onion flavored. Our products are absolutely real, never add any food additives and coloring, but still can make the pot helmet presents colorful senses, and distinctive taste. A wide range of varieties, adaptable, highly adaptable and inexpensive. What is a "pot helmet"? After searching the dictionary, the author himself could not understand how to write these two words. This name, probably has been used for thousands of years, the earliest is not produced in public security. According to the folk named origin, the production of pot helmets, do not want to do both pots, made more and not like helmets, why but agreed, called into such a name. Ask the locals, the locals shook their heads; ask the folklore experts, experts at a loss. Asked anxious, people will plug a pot of helmets to you, a let you shut your mouth, two let you go to taste go. Public security people are anxious, often use action to make up for the lack of language. The origin of the pot helmet is really unclear.
Pot helmet, a baked pasta. An oil drum, remove the lid, the inside with fire-resistant clay paste into a belly of a small space, and then with a board, which can be opened. The production of pot helmet is generally two people, a person called white case, responsible for kneading on the board, constantly will be a ball of fermented noodles in the hands of rubbing, until you feel satisfied, and then put aside to wake up; the other can be called into the red case, according to the customer's needs, sweet on sugar, salt is added salt, and even add chili peppers, oil, oil, oil, and light, as you wish. Get the complete command, only to wake up the dough three times two, stretching wide and long, sometimes into a begonia leaf shape, sometimes into the sole-like, and then finally shake a tin box, the bottom of the box was chiseled into a sieve-shaped hole, the box inside the box filled with sesame seeds, more or less a few times, can be arbitrary. All this is done in three or two minutes, and the red-case master then quickly pastes the pasta into the hearth. At this time, people notice that the hearth is also burning a pot of roaring fire, either charcoal, or anthracite, which is the only energy source for roasting pot helmets. About only three or two minutes, the master will use a pair of special tongs, gently from the hearth nearly doubled the size of the pot helmet out, directly to the diners standing aside in the hand. At this time of the helmet, the outside of the burnt, tender, fluffy and suitable, holding seems to be a little hot, eating but feel quite good, seems to be in the unconscious, just now on the board of the dough, so disappeared. If there is not left in the corner of the mouth of a residual flavor, people even want to find just held a pot helmet where to go. Eat pot helmet, a do not help tools, whether chopsticks or spoon; two do not dishes to accompany the meal, whether it is savory or fresh vegetables; three do not tables and chairs and benches, pot helmet is appropriate to stand and eat or walk to eat. Some people eat pancakes to a bowl of bean curd brain, said dry chewing and swallowing; eating dumplings with a bowl of soup, the reason is that the original soup original food, only this helmet, as if there is not so much to say, how do you want to eat how to eat. A pot helmet 2 yuan, now the price has gone up. Even if it is to lead the car to sell pulp, sweat, at most, only one more. Whether it is the form or price, pot helmets are no less popular food. Strangely enough, that is, in public security local, slightly classy restaurant hotel, there is no helmet seats, to eat helmet, must go to the humble streets and alleys. In the public security county streets and alleys, want to find the public security of the pot helmet authentic. Surprisingly, compared with other local snacks, no one here said their own pot helmet belongs to what school. Whether you ask the gray-haired old man, or ask the young blood, they are gently smiled, is not to do the pot helmet it? In the countryside, even if it is to learn a general carpenter, there is a set of cumbersome almost religious rituals, only to do the helmet, will do the head to do, will not do the stand aside to see, see more, and then try to do. Do poorly, fill their stomachs, until they are satisfied with what they have done, they can come out and singled out. Folk saying, teach the apprentice, starve the master. Do pot helmet seems to have no master and apprentice to pass on the precepts. The streets are full of pot helmets, who has nothing to do with who. I remember the previous pot helmet, three cents a, of course, that time of the month to earn wages only more than thirty dollars, a pot helmet is just one thousandth of the average monthly income; now wages rose, the price of pot helmets fell by half. In the past to do pot helmet, a town only have so a fixed stall, the morning a while on the smoke disappears, eat people do not see more; now it is all over the blossom, from morning to night, smoke and fire, eat people still do not see less. Before the pot helmet is to put salt and scallions, now it is still just put sugar and salt, salty and sweet at will. Before people do not pay attention to, pot helmet popular, people pay attention to, pot helmet is still as popular as ever ......
and public security a river away from the city of sand, alleys also do pot helmet, tools and public security, the same as the iron barrel stove often hang a sign on the side of the book, "public security pot helmet! "A few crooked paint words. However, outsiders are likely to take it seriously, but the locals do not quite buy it. Although the master of the helmet to do a mouthful of public security accent, claiming to be the public security people, probably really public security people, but he did the helmet is not the public security of the local kind of indescribable color and flavor to the helmet. People are still willing to take the opportunity to pass by or special trip, in public security to eat pot helmet. The public security of the helmet, is the technical reasons, or soil and water reasons, a moment has not been finalized. Walking in the streets of public security, see the people eating pot helmet fashionable men and women, there are old people, there are people on the journey walkers, there are sleepy-eyed village women, think a kind of popular food, no ads, no hype, actually can be divided into North and South, the ground is not divided into the old and the young, elegance and popularity **** appreciation, it is really incredible! No one is proud to make a feature, made into a climate no one boast, the streets and alleys, as if about good, do not even a sign of the helmet, it is even more unbelievable. Hubei Qianjiang people like to eat pots and pans, and eat very fancy, mainstream pots and pans are Sesame pots and pans, onion pots and pans, cashew pots and pans, five spice pots and pans, bean paste pots and pans, lard pots and pans, cover no fire pots and pans, son of the noodle pots and pans, deep-fried Dengzi pots and pans, walking salt pots and pans, the day stove pots and pans ... the most local characteristics of the pots and pans is the helm of the hollow helmets, hollow helmets are not really hollow, is the inside of the hollow helmet, but also a very large, the early morning chef is very good. Hollow very large, early morning after the master will be done on the helmet with a knife cut a mouth, and then handed to you, hollow helmet is the best advantage is that the gap is too large, and the seal is particularly good, the feeling is connected to the 2 pieces of cake, and even the soup is poured into it will not leak out locals are used to put brisket and fritter in the gap inside the local flavor, don't have any fun.
Sichuan has a snack called pot kui, and pot helmets with the same sound, but not a category, mostly for snacks and snacks, and do not do the main food, and a self-contained system, according to the ingredients and practices, can be divided into more than thirty varieties. China's vast territory, snacks, although the difference between the word, but to go to the thousands of miles. To find along the way, one by one to taste, the road traveled, and more than a thousand miles.
Pot kui is rumored to be the Three Kingdoms when Zhuge Kongming created, Shu Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang Tun troops in Chengdu to prepare for the Northern Expedition in order not to miss the opportunity to fight, Kongming ordered people to make the flour into biscuits like dry food for the side of the army while eating, and then do the pot kui tuning place was called by the descendants of the town of Tuen Mun, the biscuits like dry food has become a pot kui! Changwu pot helmet originated from the grandmother to the grandchildren He Miyuki gifts, in the daughter of the month of childbirth on the second and third, the woman's mother-in-law with a large pot helmet and baby wrap to the daughter's home, will be a large cake buckle on the lid of the pot, with a broken fist, will be wrapped from the daughter's residence window thrown into the house, and then into the house to the wrapped belly pressed in the bottom of the seat known as the "hit the pot" to ensure that the birth of the smooth and the mother and child! Peaceful. Three days after the birth, the mother's family brought raw noodles to visit the daughter's home, commonly known as "milk"; 10-20 days after the birth, the mother's family and friends of the two families to visit the mother and the baby, carrying pancakes, eggs, noodles, red ponds and clothing, and wishing for the safety of the size of the child. When a child is born in January, it is celebrated as a "full moon", and on the day of the full moon, a sumptuous meal is prepared, friends and relatives come to congratulate the baby, and the baby's uncle's family gives the baby sheets, children's clothes, strollers, and clothes and hats. The baby's uncle's family presented him with sheets, children's clothes, a stroller, clothes and hats. At the luncheon, the baby's parents and grandparents were not prepared to put black and red color on their faces, and they chased and played with each other, so everyone was happy. In Changwu to Jujia town of pot helmet is most famous.
Pot helmets soaked in mutton soup, water tofu, resistant to cooking and soaking, the more you cook the more bubbles, the more tendons, the more flavor. It is resistant to storage, winter cold, ten days and a half months, the flavor of the first; hot summer, three or two days will not deteriorate. It is one of the traditional staple food of Changwu people, but also the northwest people like to eat the flavor of food. Changwu people go out to do business, visit friends and relatives, often take some Changwu pot helmet as dry food or as a gift of local specialties; outsiders to Changwu, not only to eat Changwu pot helmets, but also to bring three or five pounds when leaving to continue to enjoy, or for friends and relatives to taste. In Bozhou, the pot helmet is also known as the strong bun, is a unique food, originated from the grandmother to the grandson HeMiYue gift, after the development of flavor convenience food. Pot helmet overall round, diameter of feet, 1 inch thick, weighing 5 pounds, because the shape resembles ancient armor, round and hard, so the name pot helmet. Called the strong bun, because it is particularly hungry, palm-sized piece of helmet can be offset by two large steamed bread. It is a large piece of dough repeatedly kneaded disk, made into a basin of a large round cake, about inches thick, diameter of one foot to two feet, the surface of a layer of sesame seeds, placed on the pan on the fire dry kang, made after the outside of the crispy soft, golden color, eat the aroma. Some connoisseurs can also make some patterns on the surface of the pot helmet.
The most important thing to do is to do the pot helmet and the surface and slowly after the ground, kneading, kneading the dough to the full, to make the cake chewing up the texture is good. Helmet looks hard, eat is also tough, most people think it is made with "dead noodles", in fact, not. It is actually not true. When you make the dough, you have to use fermented dough and flour together, otherwise the dough will taste like a stone block. The pot helmet in the production did not add the slightest oil and materials, is absolutely light food, many people will eat some pot helmet after drinking, feel very refreshing.
In Gansu Longnan Xiho County, there is a special food has been favored by people from all walks of life and welcome, it is Xiho unique food flavor --- Xiho pot helmet! Legend has it that when Qin Shi Huang united the six countries, year-round war, food and grass is easy to interrupt. Thousands of soldiers couldn't eat, couldn't have enough strength. Helpless, a sergeant unintentionally pressed the surface into the helmet, placed on the fire, roasted a little, branded into a cake, actually crispy and delicious! This cake, the side of thin, thick heart, the surface of the drum, can serve the hunger, but also can be stored for a long time not bad, the crowd favored by the appreciated. Because like a helmet, so all said: "pot helmet". A helmet will continue to this day! Also contained, Zhu Geliang triumph Bo Wang, returned to the new wild, ordered the cloud long stationed to guard the camp. When the climate is dry, the fields have been dry for a long time, the horse is tired of soldiers. Grain and grass first! What to do? In order to stabilize the heart of the army, Zhuge Liang hand stroked his beard, bowed his head for a moment, then plan on the eyebrows. Immediately wrote a letter: "more dry noodles, mixed with a little water, and into a hard block, pot kang dry, get food for the feed (helmet), in order to ring the sergeant", Guan Yu get a shortcut, according to do, and indeed through the difficult times, and made a great achievement. From then on, the "pot helmet" became the necessary basis for military food. It has become a good story that has been passed down. Catering spring color to heaven and earth, reform and opening up to change the past and present. Today, the helmet is most prevalent in Xiho County, Longnan, Gansu Province. Accompanied by stories of magical colors, the people of Xihe County bold innovation, making the pot helmet in the quality of a large cut, another flavor. Body shape like a silver plate, like the moon. Diameter of more than feet, four inches thick square, weighing about 5 pounds or so. The production of pot helmets is also its attention to technology, its equipment is by the upper and lower sides of the evenly heated furnace to bake under the brand, so the operation, which is characterized by the overall warming, the effect of uniform heat. Even if the internal cooked through, the external is not scorched, fire color heavy, yellow through brown red, fire color light, white see milky yellow, a knife cut, flexible snow white, that the degree of softness as if the elasticity of a good sponge in general, fragrant and tasty, beautiful and generous. Some people will be branding pot is divided into three layers. The top is called "turtle cover", the center is called "fire cover", and the bottom is called "body". Next to set up a "baking pot", baking pot mouth built-in an iron net. Before branding, put the three-layer pot on the pot circle, make some ballast charcoal fire in the hearth, when the charcoal fire reaches seventy to eighty percent, use the clamping scissors to clip the big charcoal fire on the top of the "fire cover", clip the medium charcoal to the "baking pot" hearth, and leave the broken charcoal at the bottom of the "horsebit", and finally, leave the broken charcoal at the bottom of the "horsebit". The broken charcoal stays in the bottom of the "horsebit", and finally the three-layer pot is put into the original place, that is, it can be branded. At this time, but also pay attention to diligently turn and turn, commonly known as "three times two turn", branded to the fire color uniformity, the skin surface slightly bulging, the bottom of the skin is golden when it is cooked. The material of the pot helmet is also its exquisite. Wheat will be ground to extract its fine powder, so the flour white and tough, containing high protein, appetizing aroma; can be described as the perception of the mouth-watering, food so that people are greedy, smelling people's nose. Longnan of this pot helmet bun general storage half a month is not a problem, it is out of the good food to carry out of the night, but also friends and relatives simple gift of truth. Therefore, he quickly hit the market at home and abroad, become a delicacy popular and famous.