Hakka Snacks Elementary School Essay

Baihou pancakes have a history of more than 200 years in Tai Po Baihou and other places, as a traditional food. According to legend, in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Zisu, one of the famous "three Hanlin in one belly" in Tai Po, was a minister of the Shaanxi and Xi'an press inspectorates. Yang and his family brought back from the north four beautiful dishes from his hometown - pancakes, green beans, bean soup and fern flour. Among them, the pancake has been improved and enhanced through years of folk imitation, evolving into today's unique flavor and popular Hakka snack - Baihou Pancake. It is a coincidence that the ancestors of the Hakka people came from the northern part of the Central Plains, and the Baihou pancake also originated in the northern part of the Central Plains. The dish is known as "hidden treasure in a bag".　　

Legend has it that in a small mountain village in Baihou Town, Tai Po County, there is a child from a poor family who has not yet left the street to enter the market until he was more than ten years old. The town of Baihou is three, six, nine of the lunar calendar for the market day. At that time, the town of Baihou only a narrow street, the whole street but more than a hundred and ten a color two to three low stores. In front of the store hangs a pergola cloth. On market days, the crowd of people rushing to the market here shoulder to shoulder, seemingly lively and noisy. At that time, the poor child pestered the adults to go to the market. Walked to the pergola under a food stall, food stalls came out bang ...... bang ...... bang hit the sound of pancake skin, and a strip like a handkerchief wrapped, rolled into a tube of pancakes exudes flavor, let a person is not greedy, the child smacked his lips to attract yell asked adults: "What is wrapped in a handkerchief?" Adults can not afford to buy, only to coax the child: "handkerchiefs wrapped in raza". The child grew up to have a successful career, but his childhood experience was still fresh in his mind, so he wrote a poem to make fun of himself:

Remembering when I was a child, I was not yet out of the nest, and I was carried by my father and mother to the street.

I don't know what the flavor of the pancake is, but I ask what is wrapped in the handkerchief.

The process of making Baihou pancakes is divided into two parts:

One, making the pancake crust

The pancake maker must knead the top quality flour in a round wooden bowl with a little bit of salted water, and then form the flour into a dough, with a dosage of 1 to 2 kilograms of flour each time. After kneading to soft bonding, the hand grabbed the flour dough, heavy fall in the wooden basin, bang ...... bang ...... bang sound. This is repeated a hundred times, so that the crust is sticky, soft and tough. Then grab a ball, quickly rubbed on a special flat-bottomed iron wok with a roaring fire, folded into a round piece of thin pie crust, which is as thin as paper and transparent.

Second, making the filling

The filling is usually made of shredded pork, dried tofu, bean sprouts, squid, mushrooms, shrimp and other ingredients. After the main ingredients are cut and matched, use the right amount of cooking oil in a wok, add garlic and stir-fry the ingredients in a wok with special fish sauce from Chaoshan, and then braise the ingredients together in a wok until they are cooked through and then wrap them into a stack of two to three pie crusts, tie them together, apply hot sauce on the outside, sprinkle pepper on them, and then put them into a plate to serve to the customers while they are still hot.

The Baihou pancake has tough skin and fragrant filling, soft and smooth texture, beautiful taste and not greasy, unique flavor.

Now, this Hakka flavor snacks not only in Baihou, and in Tai Po County, such as hotels, restaurants, restaurants and even the street stalls, roadside food stalls have this snack. However, with the improvement of living standards and a variety of food increases, people have different requirements for snacks, many restaurants, hotels have now Baihou pancakes "pocket-sized", some will be a pancake cut into two sections and eat. Many of the countryside, including overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots return to their hometowns to taste this flavorful food.