Pea yellow has a history of hundreds of years.

-A brief introduction to history

Seasonal food in Beijing in spring and summer. Originally a folk snack, it was introduced to the court. Pea yellow in Qing Dynasty was made of first-class white peas. The finished product is light yellow in color, delicate and pure, instant in mouth and sweet in taste.

Cool and refreshing. Famous for Cixi's love of food. Its preparation method comprises grinding peas, peeling, cleaning, cooking, frying in sugar, solidifying and cutting into pieces. Traditionally, it is also embedded with jujube meat. Fangshan Hotel is the most famous.

Folk rough pea yellow is a typical spring food, which is common in spring temple fairs. For example, in the flat peach palace on March 3, "jujube thick pea yellow" is a seasonal fresh product, and the vendor shouted "Hey, this jujube thick pea yellow, come in chunks!" It seems to give people a message of spring and bring warmth.

"Coarse pea yellow" is made by peeling white peas, stewing beans with twice as much water as peas, frying them with sugar, adding gypsum water and cooked dates, stirring them evenly, putting them in a big casserole, cooling them into pieces, drying them, and cutting them into images.

A diamond-shaped piece like a cut cake, decorated with small pieces of golden cake, is usually sold on a unicycle covered with wet blue cloth. Most people who run this business are villagers in Pinggu, Xianghe and Jingnan, JD.COM.

"Fine pea yellow" is improved on the basis of folk red dates and coarse pea yellow. Its production method is more elaborate, which is to cook peas and sieve them into paste, add sugar and osmanthus, and cut them into two inches square and less than half an inch thick after solidification.

Small cube with a few honey cakes on it, with good color, fragrance, delicate and pure texture, which melts in the mouth and belongs to the top grade. After the Republic of China, Tang Yilan Restaurant and Fangshan Tea House in Beihai Park sold first-class pea yellow, which was packed in cartons, each containing 10 yuan.

As a court snack, it is equivalent to Duyun cakes and steamed buns.

There is a poem in "Hundred Poems of Gourmet in the Old Capital": "Gourmet has always belonged to Yanjing, and pea yellow has long been famous. Red dates are inlaid with gold chips, and ten pieces are bought in Huang Qiong. "

Pea yellow is a seasonal food in Beijing in spring and summer. Peas are beneficial to diuresis, quenching thirst, regulating middle qi, relieving sore toxin, diminishing inflammation, relieving summer heat, lowering blood pressure, reducing fat and losing weight. Originally a folk snack, it was introduced to the court. The pea yellow in Qing Palace is made of fine white peas. The finished product is light yellow, delicate and pure, which melts in the mouth, tastes sweet, cool and refreshing. Famous for Cixi's love of food. Its preparation method comprises grinding peas, peeling, cleaning, cooking, frying in sugar, solidifying and cutting into pieces. Traditionally, it is also embedded with jujube meat. Fangshan Hotel is the most famous.

Pea yellow is a traditional snack in Beijing. According to Beijing custom, you should eat pea yellow on the third day of the third lunar month. Therefore, whenever pea yellow is listed in spring, it will be supplied until the end of spring.

There are two kinds of pea yellow in Beijing, one is the so-called palace snack made by imitation food in Beihai Park. The other is the rough pea yellow sold on the street. These two kinds of snacks are called pea yellow, but the materials, technology and price are very different.

Let's start with the court snack pea yellow. Select the best white peas, remove impurities and shriveled beans, wash and stew them, make them too thin, precipitate them, add white sugar and osmanthus, let them cool, cut them into pieces and put them into beautiful gift boxes, and attach a few golden cakes to each corner of pea yellow, which are in harmony with red and yellow. Very suitable for gifts to friends and relatives. Especially this one.

Wandou cake

Pea yellow is a court snack, which is said to be the favorite of the western empress dowager. With such publicity, its value is even more arrogant. However, the color of pea yellow is not completely natural, and the cooked peas are not so yellow. The price of this pea yellow is staggering. Who could afford it then? Pea yellow sold along the street is a snack for ordinary children.

Vendors use a sand drum (a thick flat-bottomed circular casserole) to cook peas, add cooked dates, solidify and cool them, knock them out of the pot and cut them into pieces for sale. The peddler pushed a cart with several pots of boiled pea yellow on it. cry out

"Pea yellow-big!" This kind of pea is yellow and thick, and its skin can be seen all over the pots in Huang Er. Thanks to the sweetness of jujube, it is delicious. For the children of ordinary families at that time, there was usually a lack of snacks.

If you can eat a piece of pea yellow like this, it will be quite delicious. It is also this practice that makes peas yellow and maintains the true color and original flavor of peas.

Excerpted from Baidu netizens, thank you.