rolling donkey, a Beijing snack

Bean flour cake, also known as snowballing usury, is one of the ancient snacks in Beijing. Its raw material is steamed with yellow wheat water, and the dough is slightly softened with more water. In addition, the soybeans are fried and rolled into flour. When making, the steamed yellow wheat is covered with soybean flour and rolled into skin, then covered with red bean paste (or brown sugar), rolled up, cut into small pieces of about 100g, and sprinkled with white sugar. When making, the stuffing is required to be rolled evenly, with distinct layers and yellow appearance, which is characterized by fragrance, sweetness, stickiness and strong flavor of soybean powder. Yellow bean is the main raw material of bean flour cake, so it is called bean flour cake. But why is it also called "snowballing"? It seems to be an image metaphor. After it is made, it is rolled in soybean flour, like the countryside really snowballing and raising dust, hence the name. This point has also been questioned by predecessors. "Yan Dou Snack Chant" said: "The brown sugar and water stuffing are arranged skillfully, and the yellow flour is buried in the dough beans. It is almost humorous for He Shiqun to call his name' snowballing'. " He also said: "Soybeans are sticky with rice, steamed, wrapped in brown sugar and water, rolled in fried bean noodles and sold on a plate. It's really incredible to call them' donkey rolling'." It can be seen that the name of "snowballing" has been established. Nowadays, many people only know the nickname, but don't know its proper name. At present, snack bars are available all year round, but most of them have changed from yellow wheat to Jiangmi noodles, because the color of soybean noodles is still yellow, which is a favorite snack of the masses.
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