Why should Shandong miscellaneous grains pancakes be made in a griddle?

Because this is a local custom handed down from generation to generation.

Tobacco seeds are unique tools in Shandong, and they have been used to make pasta since ancient times. Pancakes are the staple food in Shandong. Today, there is a traditional custom that "every family supports cigarettes and bakes pancakes".

1967, Dong Yang Lou Village, Shengzhuang Town, Tai 'an City discovered the "Separation Contract" in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, including "a plate of cigarettes and 23 Jin of pancakes". Due to the appearance of Xunzi, we can be sure that the modern pancake making method existed at the latest in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

Shandong pancake originated from Mount Tai and has a history of 1000 years. It can be seen that pancakes were already the staple food of Taian people at that time. Legend has it that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Huang Chao Uprising Army was stationed in Mount Tai, and local people sent pancakes to each other. Pancakes are the most common and distinctive food in southern Shandong and southwestern Shandong.

The traditional way of heating tobacco leaves is to burn firewood and straw at the bottom of tobacco leaves and smoke and burn. By the early 1980s, firewood had gradually withdrawn from the market. With the pace of reform and opening up, pancake machines came into being, and pancakes were commercialized.

Jin Ao is a rotating cylinder, the interior of which is heated by burning coal.

Since then, the custom of "every family supports cigarettes and bakes pancakes" has gradually faded out of people's sight. Through the development of the market for decades, people feel the importance of eating handmade pancakes, and citizens need health. With the development of science and technology, new energy and the birth of electromagnetic pancakes with electromagnetic heating technology, electromagnetic pancakes have been low-carbon and environmentally friendly, and pancakes have bid farewell to smoky fires.

Extended data

There are three main tools for flipping pancakes:

One is round, made of iron, with large, medium and small sizes. Medium-sized tobacco, about 65 cm in diameter, with a slightly convex center and three legs. The lower part is heated by firewood or coal and pancakes can be baked on it. Xunzi is a special tool for baking pancakes. There is a note "Xunzi" in Kangxi Dictionary, and a sentence "Cooked Xunzi" in Guanmin Book in Tang Dynasty, which shows that pancakes have a long history.

The second is holding a tool for pushing paste. Locals call it "Red Son", which is a wooden plate-shaped arc with a handle. After coating the paste on the hot tobacco, push it in the pool, and the paste will be thinly coated on the surface of the tobacco. Some of them use shovels and some use "bamboo chop", which has the same effect, but the baked pancakes have their own characteristics.

The third is the oil scraper, which the masses call the oil scraper. It is a square wiper sewn with more than ten layers of cloth, soaked in edible oil to wipe tobacco to prevent pancakes from sticking.

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