Inby

Inby, a snack in Beijing, is loved by men, women and children. Its crispy and oily taste really makes people unable to eat enough. Beijingers eat baked wheat cakes, often like to eat inby, and they must eat inby when drinking bean juice. Inby is an ancient food, and it is troublesome to make it. Because of the low labor efficiency, general restaurants are unwilling to make it, so it is often blocked for a while. To make inby, you need to melt salt, alkali and a little alum in warm water, add water and mix flour into dough, then knead the dough repeatedly by hand, knead it evenly and put it on a chopping board for 3 hours, then flatten the dough, cut it into strips with a knife, take it into strips and put it on the chopping board, hold one end with one hand and the other end with the other, and smooth it into flat pieces with a thickness of about 6 cm. Cut a knife in the middle with a small frying knife, and the two sides can't be cut through. When the oil is burned to 50% heat, hold one end of the raw inby blank with your hand and put it into the oil pan. Then use chopsticks to spread it from the middle to make it into a bracelet shape. After shaping, turn it over and fry it until it is purplish red, and control the oil, that is, it becomes a crispy inby. Su Dongpo once wrote a poem in the Song Dynasty, which is said to be the first product advertisement poem in China: "Hands are rubbed into jade, jade is fried into light yellow and deep, and sleeping in the spring at night is insignificant, which makes a beautiful woman wrap her arms around gold." In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica Valley also recorded: "People are short of salt, and the rope is twisted into the shape of a ring, and it is fried and eaten." Inby can be stored for ten days and a half months, and its quality is unchanged, crisp as ever, and crisp without peeling. It has been a favorite food for thousands of years.
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