Where did the stone cake originate?

Stone cake is a kind of traditional pasta, which originated from Hedong area in the southwest of the mountain.

Stone cakes (also called sand buns), as the name implies, are made of stones. This is obviously the legacy of ancient stone cooking. The Yellow River has experienced a long historical process of human use of fire. The emergence of stone cooking method should be said to have a certain relationship with human consumption of grain, wheat and other granular foods.

Growing grain for food began in Shennong period. Shennong is a sage among the ancestors of the Yellow River, the legendary Emperor Yan, and one of the ancestors of the Yellow River nation. He started agricultural production and taught people to eat grains.

Adjust yeast the day before production; Then pour the sesame oil into the porcelain basin, add the alkali juice into it according to the proportion (0.2 kg of sesame oil, add two small glasses of alkali juice), stir evenly, then pour the boiling water and stir again.

After the oil and alkali water is cooled, pour in flour (if the oil and alkali water is not enough, cold water can be used instead), and when it is cotton wool-like, mix the noodles together, and the hardness is similar to that of dry cakes. After the noodles are mixed, let them stand for ten minutes before cooking.

Stone cake classification:

1, filled pebble cake

Mix the brown sugar stuffing in advance, add some sesame seeds, and mix well with the fried white flour and cooked sesame oil. The method of making moon cakes is similar to that of wrapping moon cakes, but the stuffing is only half of that of moon cakes, and the rest is the same as the previous method, but the sugar juice should be prevented from flowing out.

2. Sugar pebble cake

Dissolve white sugar in boiling water before eating; Oil and alkaline water should be reduced as appropriate; When kneading dough, use oil and alkaline water first, and then add sugar to dissolve the juice; Other productions are the same as before.

3. Bean powder stone cake

Stir-fry pockmarked seeds in advance, and pay attention to prevent burning; Dissolve salt into liquid with boiling water, and then inject pepper water; When kneading dough, first inject oil and alkaline water, then add salt juice, mix well and knead dough repeatedly; Making is the same as barbecue.

Although this method of baking food is ancient, it is not easy to burn because of uniform heat transfer and can be cooked thoroughly. It tastes salty, crisp and delicious. Pebble cakes have doubled in value and become birthday gifts for people visiting relatives, friends and children.

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