Laiyuan pancakes

Pancakes can be found all over the country, but with different flavors. Laiyuan pancake is a unique variety. The uniqueness of Laiyuan pancake is mainly the materials used. According to the folks, Laiyuan pancake is a three-meter cake, the main ingredients are corn, millet and soybeans, and then a proper amount of pepper, aniseed, onion, ginger and garlic are added as auxiliary materials. In order to make pancakes stronger, some people like to add a little wheat. These raw materials are mixed together, soaked with water, and then ground into paste with a stone mill. Laiyuan pancake has "four unique skills", one is large, and the largest diameter of Laiyuan pancake pan can reach more than one meter, generally not less than two feet; Second, it is extremely thin. It is no exaggeration to say that every pancake is as thin as paper. The third is golden, and the color of Laiyuan pancakes is like gold; Fourth, the ribs, each pancake can be lifted and slipped, feeling like silk. To sum up, it is "as big as a cover, as thin as paper, as golden in color and as stiff as silk". There are many ways to eat Laiyuan pancakes, and the easiest way to eat them is to eat them directly while they are hot. However, most people fold the pancakes into a rectangle and bake them in a pan. The skins are burnt and crispy, and then they are torn into small pieces. They are put into bean curd soup, egg soup or shredded mushroom soup prepared in advance and soaked in these soups. The most famous way to eat pancakes is to fry pancakes and roll meat, and the best and most exquisite thing is to roll cooked pork head and face meat. Spread the pancakes, roll them with chopped pig's head and minced green onions, then roll them into rolls and flip them back and forth. When the skin is slightly burnt, cut them into sections and serve. Just out of the pot, the fried pancake rolls are tender on the outside, and the bite is full of oil, which is extremely crispy. There is such a jingle among the people: Go to Nanjing and break into Beijing, but the pork wrapped pancakes in Laiyuan are delicious. Indeed, it is a great pity to go to Laiyuan without eating fried pancake rolls. In addition, there are fried pancakes, fried pancakes and other ways to eat. However, the most authentic is fried pancake rolls. Every household in Laiyuan rural area will spread pancakes. In the past, there was a lack of flour and rice, so people cooked coarse grains during the Chinese New Year holidays. In the twelfth lunar month, every family spread two or three buckets of food pancakes, folded them into rectangles by heat, neatly packed them in baskets, and kept them for eating slowly in the first month. It is said that two brothers came from Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty, one of them settled in Laiyuan and the other in Shandong, and they brought the technology of making pancakes to the local area. Therefore, Laiyuan pancakes and Shandong pancakes are brother pancakes. There is no way to prove the truth of this statement, but Laiyuan pancake has formed its own unique flavor after hundreds of years of independent development, which is unique in China and is really a must.
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