Empress Dowager Cixi's favorite silver tribute noodles, what kind of food?

There is such a delicacy, known as "white like silver beauty is also fragrant, slender as silk meaning long", even the Empress Dowager Cixi, are to be in the first day of the first month must eat this delicacy, it is the famous "silver tribute noodles". Although the silver wire tribute noodles look simple, do it is quite cumbersome. Do you want to know how it is? This is to reveal the secret for you:

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From ancient times to the present, the Spring Festival customs are numerous, from the palace aristocracy to the common people, every household is decorated with lanterns and colorful, joyful. And Empress Dowager Cixi as a dynasty after, is to taste all the delicacies, extravagant and rich. The first day of the first month of this day, the imperial kitchen will be prepared for the Cixi bowl of "silver silk tribute noodles". In fact, this silver wire tribute noodles is a kind of flour mixed with camellia oil, with salt water and pulling and drying from the handmade noodles. Because of the combination of soup and noodles, so the noodles should be smooth and tender, soup should be fresh and flavorful. In order to increase the freshness of the soup, the imperial kitchen will also use chicken or big bones to make soup, then with meat oil or tea oil, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, ginger, garlic, chili peppers, chopped green onions, and then add the noodles after the water boils. Simmer over high heat for a few minutes, and the noodles slowly turn into a bright jade color, then fish out and serve in soup bowls.

"Changshan County Records" has recorded a variety of eating silver wire tribute to the noodles: "tribute to the noodles with salt water and pulling and drying and become, eaten with spicy oil, scallions, there is a turtle (blanch eggs), ham as a topping is better." Cixi ate this silver wire tribute noodles, also represents the year will be "lucky again and again".

But the name "silver wire tribute noodles" is quite a historical origin. According to historical records, in fact, the silver wire tribute noodles in the past was called "Changshan Suo Mian", as early as the Tang Xianheng period began to produce, because of its shape like silk, commonly known as Suo Mian.

"Changshan Suo Mian" and why become "tribute noodles"? In fact, this is related to a big man in history - the Ming Dynasty Chancellor Yan Song. Legend has it that Yan Song went to Beijing to catch the exams with the inventory, dry food is not much, so when passing through Changshan and tired and hungry, but also infected with wind chill, simply to the end of the road. However, he was trapped in the county Wenfeng tower, but got accounted for the family grandma and grandpa rescue, this kind family is feeding the starving Yan Song hot "Suo noodles", Yan Song at that time, the first hold up the bowl to drink a few mouth soup, only feel the taste buds of the mouth were fresh open, body hot and comfortable, can not wait to eat a few bowls. Cham's wife saw him love to eat, and let Yan Song take some Suo noodles back to the capital. Later Yan Song known as the prime minister, he will be home to delicious "Suo noodles" out to entertain the emperor, the emperor tasted even after the praise, and even decreed that it will be listed as a tribute, but also gave the name "silver wire tribute noodles". In this way, the name of the silver wire tribute noodles gradually spread.

And Cixi, who was a Lan Guiren at the time, fell in love with the noodles when she ate them for the first time.

Since Yinshi Gongmian is so flavorful, how is it made? In fact, after a long time of processing practice, Yinshi Gongmian has formed a set of unique and complex handmade craft. The first is to choose the best mountain wheat milled flour as the main raw material, at the same time blended with camellia oil, so that the kneading out of the noodle is more tender and fresh flavor. When the dough has matured, the second process - pressing - begins. The dough is pressed into slices about 2 centimeters thick, then coated with a certain amount of camellia oil, evenly coated, and then cut with a knife into long strips about 3 centimeters wide, and then left to rise again for about 30 minutes. Immediately after that, there is the third process - beating the strips. Next is the fourth process - serving chopsticks. The fifth process is to put the noodles on the shelves and pull them.

After the noodles are finished, they are put in a cool, dry place to dry out, until they are eight or nine minutes dry. After drying, it is the last process, that is, plate noodles. The practice of plate noodles is very delicate, stroking the chopsticks on the head of the noodles, to use red paper head wrapped into a bundle, pulled bundled into a figure of eight stacked together, which represents the "prosperity" of the symbolism.

In the minds of the people, different occasions to eat tribute to the noodles, there are many different good meaning. For example, on the morning of the first day of the first month, every family ate a bowl of tribute to the noodles, implying that the blessing of a long time, good luck, which is the first day of the first month, the Empress Dowager Cixi ate tribute to the noodles of one of the reasons. This is one of the reasons why Empress Dowager Cixi ate Gongmian on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. And the tribute to the high nutritional value of the noodles themselves, eating and rich, you can add a variety of seasonings, so the "silver wire tribute to the noodles" has become a modern indispensable food.