Fern powder skin

The snacks in Ankang area are most famous for Hanyin. Hanyin's snacks are also famous for "fern vermicelli". It is better than "Hanzhong Rice Noodles" and "Qin Zhen Rice Noodles". Because of its remoteness and small population, it lacks the taste of celebrities and the rendering of literati, which makes it "hidden in the mountains and unknown." "Fern powder skin" is made of fern powder, a local specialty in the mountains. Hanyin is located in the center of Qinba Mountain area, where wild ferns are abundant. There is a lot of starch in its roots, the content of which is as high as 40% ~ 76%, which can be made into fern powder after processing. Fern powder is delicate, waxy, pollution-free and nutritious, and it is a nourishing food, which is better than lotus root powder. There are also therapeutic effects such as expelling rheumatism, relieving fever and diuresis, reducing swelling and calming the nerves, removing greasy, helping digestion, refreshing and fighting cancer. Its preparation method: firstly, the fern powder is mixed with water into powder slurry, and the slurry should not be too thick or too thin, and it is suitable to be thin paste. Then put a thin layer of powder slurry in a special tin flat-bottomed round pot, put it in boiling water, cook it a little, take it out of the pan, soak it in cold water a little, spin it along the pot with chopsticks, and buckle it backwards, and a piece of fern powder skin with a reddish purple color will be made. When eating, fold the vermicelli, cut it into finger-wide strips with a knife, put it in a bowl and add seasoning. Fern powder skin is soft, smooth and delicate, moist and refreshing, with special game fragrance, excellent taste and attractive appetite. The seasoning of fern powder skin should be complete, and vinegar, garlic water, Jiang Mo, monosodium glutamate, pepper, sesame oil, refined salt and sesame sauce are all available, especially pepper. Otherwise, there will be less soul and less taste. Look at that beautiful woman, no matter how delicate and elegant she is on weekdays, if she doesn't eat a red mouth circle at this time, she will never leave it at that. Fern vermicelli is an excellent snack for Hanyin people to entertain guests. No matter how big or small the banquet is, even a bowl of fern vermicelli is in the center of the table, and it is the most popular and the first to eat. As soon as the wanderer who "left home when he was young" returned to Hanyin, he would eat the fern powder skin for the first meal. Even the terminally ill patients, who are too ill to eat, still want to eat some fern powder skin to open their stomachs and even die without regret. However, due to the scarcity of fern powder, it is mostly replaced by yam powder and potato powder, and its taste is not as good as fern powder, and its flavor is greatly reduced. Real fern skin is rare.
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