Food Tales: Shandong food folklore

The beautiful Shandong Province has a rich food culture, food folklore unique. Lu Cuisine is one of the "eight cuisines" in China, including Jinan Cuisine, Jiaodong Cuisine, Kongfu Cuisine and other local cuisines, each with its own strengths and characteristics. Shandong people to noodle-based, then, about Shandong's dietary ethnic groups have how interesting food allusions? Take a look at it.

One, cooking utensils

Iron pot, also known as rice pot, cauldron. Commonly, there are a number of different sizes of eight, seven, six, five, and four seals.

Pot lid, wooden, with beams and handles, to sycamore wood as the material for the best, and often seven or eight pieces of planks put together, the proverb says: "pot lid, pot lid, seven, eight." Along the Yellow River in rural areas, more than with sorghum stalks strung pot cover, called pot beat, Wendeng called the lid, used to pad in the pot under the lid, to prevent the steam downstream.

Kettle, also known as pot head. Sub-pot face, after the pot, pot door face, stove mouth, pot bottom hole and other parts.

Wind box, also known as wind box, wind lift. Used to blow fire.

Burning stick, used to adjust the burning firewood, iron, but also to take the use of tree branches.

Grate, set up in the pot, used to steam food.

Ke fork, also known as grate beam. Carved with the "Ya" shaped branches, set up in the pot, used for rice.

Rice cauldron, pottery, disk-shaped, body cloth many holes, steamed food buckled at the bottom of the pot.

Cabbage pier, cut the roots of the wood wheel for the, used to cut vegetables chopped meat.

Chopping board, used to cut vegetables and meat.

Table for processing pasta.

Cleaner, generally rectangular, Laizhou Sanshan Island fishermen are equipped with pointed knife, used to wash fish, pry clams.

Cleaners are used for cleaning shredded turnips and potatoes.

Strainers are made of wire and wicker, used to fetch food from hot water.

Panel, used to process pasta dishes.

Rolling pin, also known as rolling pin. Used to roll out noodles, pasta leaves, and make cakes.

Bone spoon, made of pig, cow and sheep bones, used to pick the filling for buns and dumplings.

Small rolling pin used to roll out the skin of buns and dumplings.

Flame-roasted board, round and thick, with handles on both sides, used to press the dough when making flame-roasted cakes.

Dipper, made of cut gourd, farmers have water dipper, noodle dipper.

Shovel, also known as spatula, bump pot knife. Iron, small wooden handle, used for stir-frying, brushing pots and pans.

Chopstick cage, also known as chopstick cage, chopstick tube. Chopstick cage, also known as chopstick cage, chopstick tube, etc..

Cupboard, also known as cupboard, dining cabinet. A cabinet for storing utensils and food.

Cooking broom, usually made of a kind of sorghum spike grass, (commonly known as cooking broom grass) tied.

Basin, ceramic, thick texture, with the old smooth, commonly known as "the new basin is not as good as the old basin adjusted surface light. Nowadays, more and more with enamel basin, aluminum basin.

Fruit mold, commonly known as knock. Wooden carving, with a variety of patterns of various sizes and shades, used to make pasta during festivals.

Oil cans, coarse porcelain, with a shallow iron spoon, when not in use, the spoon is hanging on the side of the can.

Small baskets and baskets made of peeled wicker to hold food.

Rice basket, peeled willow or mulberry strips prepared to contain food hanging beam, Zhaoyuan local popularity of a lid connected to the basket system of rice basket, can prevent cats and rats, commonly known as the "gas dead cat".

Griddle, flat-bottomed rimless iron skillet, used to cook pancakes, Luzhong, southwestern Lu widely popular.

Oil wipe, also known as oil cloth. Pancakes to the griddle with oil, 15 centimeters square, three or five layers of cloth folded and sewn, on the handle.

Pancake splitter, Tengzhou folk popular, cut with bamboo, 2 feet long, more than 1 inch at the wide end, the other end of the narrowing, the tip or rounded or pointed, both sides of the blade, used to spread and scrape pancakes.

Pancake baskets, made of willow or straw, round, more than 3 feet in diameter, the edge of 3 - 4 inches high. In Linyi, black earthenware pots with straight rims are often used to hold pancakes.

Small single pancake griddle, used to remove the water in the cooked pancakes, so that it is more resistant to storage, commonly known as "top pancakes.

Pancake will be sorry, Tengzhou called wipe. It is made of wood and is used to spread pancakes.

The stove, made of pottery, on which the griddle is set.

Flat pan, flat-bottomed iron pan with a rim, used to cook thick pancakes.

The water tank, used to store water.

Kettle, there are pottery, aluminum, iron several kinds, used to boil water.

Second, food utensils

Rice bowl, used for porridge, noodles and so on.

Spoons, copper, iron, aluminum, wood, coconut shell (commonly known as melon basket spoon) several kinds, used to share the rice.

Chopsticks, mostly bamboo and wooden, occasionally silver, ivory, bone chopsticks.

Spoons, also known as spoon, small spoon.

Bowls, porcelain, pottery, sand pottery several kinds, children commonly used willow bowl, the trend of aluminum, enamel bowl.

Pan, there are dishes, fish plates, soup plates, etc. respectively.

Dishes, used to hold small dishes.

Soup bowl, used to hold soup dishes.

Rice plate, rectangular, wooden, surrounded by a block, also known as round plate (Longkou area), pass plate (Qingzhou area), used to serve rice.

Teapots, tea bowls (also known as teacups), tea trays, tea cones (or boxes).

Wine pot, wine cup (or wine cup).

Hot pots, traditional hot pots are made of copper, integrating cooking and eating utensils, mostly used in winter.

Casserole, also used in winter cooking.

The tableware of Confucius House is the most elaborate. The most precious set of tableware is the silver banquet tableware gifted by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, which consists of 404 pieces of vessels of different sizes and can serve more than 190 dishes. Birthday Banquet used "high pendulum" tableware, porcelain, silver, tin, a variety of materials, square, round, treasure, clouds of various shapes, there are famous dishes of special utensils, with a pool of tableware, set up under the hot water pool for the meal to keep warm, drink soup in a small bowl only a mouthful of soup, called the "mouth of soup bowls ".