Chapter 31 The baked box that the northerners love to eat

The iron box is purely a kind of northern pasta. Since it is called "Lao", it is naturally authentic to be baked on the stove without oil, such as chopped green onion pancakes, homemade pancakes, sugar pancakes with sesame paste, clear oil pancakes, meat pies, and pies are made of iron. Roast on a pan, and brush oil on both sides once a day, and the taste will be different when you eat it in your mouth.The stove used to bake the box is a special product of Zhaitang in Mentougou, Beiping. There is a kind of steel sand produced locally. It is firm and shiny. It can be used to burn large and small casserole. It is said that the rice is fragrant and the porridge is messy.There is a joke in Peking Opera called "Beating the Casserole". A clown named Big Nose went crazy on the stage and smashed casserole sets of different sizes into pieces, flying pieces all over the stage.People in Peiping have a quip that "sell casserole in sets", probably because casserole is easy to burn, so when an old lady buys a casserole, she always buys in sets.The sand drum has a lid, a large and deep chamber, the stewed meat does not lose gas, and the pot collapses the mutton, which cooks quickly and has a large capacity.Thin sand diapers have a short mouth with a handle, and a concave thin lid, which is a special product for boiling Chinese medicine decoction slices.The support furnace has a large towel and a small number three, which looks like the Danpi of a drummer in Peking Opera. The support furnace is full of hollow holes, which is much thicker than the material used for casserole drums.These four things are on the pick of selling casserole.Sheqin Jinjun ate the pancakes and brought a stove from Beiping. When he was living in Nanchang Street, his residence was careless and the whole house burned down, so he snatched the stove out.Later I told him that things are rare and expensive, your stove is more valuable than Yongzheng's white ground blue and white, Qianlong's golden ground five colors!In Taiwan, the fine porcelain of Yongzheng and Qianlong is not uncommon. Your furnace may be the only one in Taiwan. Isn’t it a priceless treasure?

Let's talk about the ironing box!Although the box is made by rolling the noodles into two skins, the softness and hardness of the noodles must be just right. If the noodles are too hard, the mouth will crack if you don’t knead them properly.The iron box, formerly known as the vegetable box, as the name suggests, the box is mainly vegetables.If it is stuffed with scallions, beef and mutton, one bite and a bag of soup, it must be classified as meat pies and pies, and it should be classified as rough pasta, and it cannot be regarded as a box of baked vegetables. The regular box should be divided into spinach and Chinese cabbage. Master, you can add some tender green leeks, chopped green leeks, finely chopped green leeks, fried eggs and finely chopped dried shrimps (shrimp skins are of course not used, and dried shrimps that cannot be peeled off are also avoided), plus various Seasoning and mix well.As for fungus, yellow flower, tofu, and vermicelli, they are all used for steamed dumplings with flower vegetables, so it is best not to mix them blindly.The size of the box is three inches, and the box is really baked when it is baked on a support stove without any oil on it.In the past two years, ironing boxes seem to be out of date, and some northern pavilions have added ironing boxes.A few delicious friends asked me which box baked well, but it was hard to say.Roasting box is a common food at home. I haven’t heard of any small restaurant in the mainland that sells baking box. Restaurants use pans instead of stoves, and baking boxes must be baked in a stove to meet the standard. Where can I go in Taiwan now? Are you buying a stove?Some people say that the baked boxes of Tianchu’s snack department are not bad, in terms of size, they are good, but the stuffing is too thick, and there is oil on the box, which is not very refreshing after eating, almost like a pie.There is a northern restaurant on Zhongshan North Road called Tianxingju. It once called for a while with baked boxes. The owner of the restaurant, Sha Cang, was the young owner of Huiyuan Pavilion in the old Beiping Dong’an Market. It doesn't have to follow the schedule, the box looks good after being baked, and it has the problem of hard dough and thick stuffing.Later, "Taoranting" also added a baking box. When baking the box on the pancake pan, it is inevitable that the oil will be a little heavy. The strange thing is that the chef's hands are not accurate, and the stuffing is good and bad, probably because of changing hands. .On Zhongshan North Road and Qingdao East Road, there is a shop that sells baked boxes, with golden needles, fungus, tofu, and vermicelli mixed together, which is similar to the baked boxes eaten by farmers.There is a small restaurant on Xinyi Road that also sells baking boxes. The box is five inches in size. If you bite into a bag of leeks, it looks like a leek basket.Ms. Liu Fang said that there is a baked box in Zhonghe City that is not bad. Ms. Liu knows how to eat and cook. Of course, her recommendation may be wrong, and she always has a chance to try it.In short, the baked box is a kind of home-cooked pasta, which cannot be supplied in large quantities.Since the author came to Taiwan, every New Year’s day, my wife always made a few flower boxes for me to satisfy my cravings. I eat fish and meat all day long, and occasionally eat a light and delicious noodle meal, which makes my body and mind feel refreshed.I think how many friends agree with my way of eating!