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What good things can represent the characteristics of your hometown?

Oil cotton, of course.

Yóu flour is flour made of naked oats, which is the general name of naked oats pasta in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei Bashang Zhangbei, Kangbao and Guyuan.

Oil cotton contains calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and other nutrients and pharmaceutical ingredients needed by the human body. Oil cotton contains a special substance-linoleic acid, which has obvious effect on human metabolism. The nutritional content of oat flour is more than 7 times that of other flours, which can be compared with refined flour.

In addition, oat noodle is a good health food, which is helpful to lose weight and beauty. It's just that oat noodles are not easy to digest (it's best not to eat more at dinner), so eat less every meal.

Oil noodles are special foods in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, Datong Basin in northern Shanxi Province, Tumochuan Plain in Inner Mongolia, Yinshan Mountain Area and southern Wulanchabu City, and mainly grow in mountainous areas with short frost-free period.

Naked oats are millet. The growth period is short, and the fruit is easy to break away from the shell after maturity. You can eat it after grinding it into powder, which is called oatmeal powder, naked oats powder and naked oats powder. The fruit of this plant is also called naked oats. Flour made from naked oats. After careful preparation, it became food.

The biggest feature of naked oats is the practice. The so-called "three raw and three ripe", that is to say, from raw naked oats to edible naked oats products, it has to go through the process of three raw and three ripe.

Cook once in a lifetime

Naked oats are harvested and pulled into the field for threshing. The seeds taken off are naturally raw and cannot be eaten. This is "fate". To grind naked oats into powder, you must first fry the grains.

Set up a large iron pot, pour the peeled naked oats into the pot, take off the shelf and turn it slowly with a spatula, which is quite similar to the sugar fried chestnuts on the street. When the naked oats are fried to yellow and slightly burnt, the fragrance comes out and it becomes "one-cooked".

Two crops, two crops.

Grind the fried wheat into a oat noodle and it will be born again. This is "Second Life". From the appearance, except for the slightly darker color, the flour made of ordinary wheat is not much different. Local villagers are used to storing flour in wooden cabinets.

This kind of counter is painted bright red outside and stands out in the room. Northerners have simple furnishings, and more than half of the rooms are kang, so cabinets are the most important furniture. The quality of the family can be seen at a glance from the size and luster of the cabinet. When you eat flour, you should mix it into flour first. The most special thing is that you can't use cold water when mixing flour, but use boiled water (called boiled water by locals). Scoop a proper amount of flour in the basin, add half of boiling water, and you can mix the noodles.

Because it is boiled water and flour, it is called "double cooked". The mixed noodles should be steamed in a steamer while they are hot to make oat noodle products. San sheng San Shu

Both Lehe, Yuyu and Wo Wo are raw (Sansheng). The next step is to add water to chop wood and steam. When white smoke rises in the steamer and the room is filled with the unique fragrance of the oat noodle, the oat noodle is steamed (medium rare). At this time, you can really eat.