Pea Cake

Pea yellow method:

Raw materials for making pea yolk:

Pea Cake

Processing steps of pea yolk:

1. Crush and peel peas with a small mill and wash them with cold water for three times. After boiling, put the peas into the pot, add the alkali, and then boil the peas into porridge, and take the original soup.

2. Put the peas in the pot, add sugar and water, stir fry for 30 minutes

3. Pour the fried pea puree into a 1 foot 1 inch long, 5 minutes wide and 7 minutes high white iron mold, and then put it in a ventilated place to air for three or four hours. After the pea puree is thoroughly air dried, it will become pea yellow. Change the knife to plate.

Pea Cake

Pea yellow, also known as pea yellow, is a traditional snack in Beijing, and it's also a good seasonable food in Beijing spring. Peas are usually ground, peeled, washed, boiled, fried with sugar, coagulated and cut into pieces. The finished product is light yellow in appearance, sweet in taste, cool and refreshing.

The yellow peas of the Qing Dynasty are made from superior white peas, which are famous for Cixi's appetite for food; the folk coarse yellow peas are typical spring food, which are commonly used in spring temple fairs.

History of dishes

Pea huang'er was originally a folk snack of the Han nationality. It is usually made of small jujube, commonly known as coarse pea huang'er. It is sold on a unicycle covered with wet blue cloth at temple fairs and other occasions. Later, it was introduced into the palace and improved by the imperial dining room of the Qing Dynasty. It is commonly known as "thin pea huang'er" and is also known as "court snack" together with "kidney bean cake" and "xiaowotou".

Dish making

Practice 1

Ingredients

Peel and dry yellow peas 230g, baking soda 2G, sugar 65g, water amount.

step

1. Wash and drain peas, mix well with baking soda, soak in water, and let stand for 5-6 hours. The level should be less than 3cm of peas.

2.5-6 hours later, pour out the soda water, rinse 4-5 times with water, drain and put into the pot, add water to boil, the amount of water should be less than 4-5cm of peas. During boiling, white foam will float off. After boiling, turn it into medium heat and cook until most peas are blooming.

3. Stir the soft peas (soup) to make them broken as much as possible.

4. Filter the pea paste through the filter to make the pea into a fine and thick paste.

5. Add sugar to the pea paste, mix well, put it on the tempering plate, continue to heat it, and simmer until it is thick. The pea paste becomes semi-solid rather than liquid, then leave the fire.

6. Pour it into the mold, scrape the surface flat, and place it at room temperature. When the temperature is slightly lower and not hot, put it into the refrigerator for refrigeration.

7. Refrigerate for more than 4 hours, take out demoulding, cut into pieces and eat.

 

Practice 2

Ingredients

White pea, alkali, sugar

step

1. Use good white peas, slightly peel them, and soak them in cold water for 3 times.

2. Use copper pot to boil water (not iron pot) put peeled peas into pot, add alkali, boil peas into porridge, and then take the original soup through the basket, put the pea porridge into pot, add sugar, fry for 30 minutes. In the process of frying, it is necessary to pick up the board at any time to do experiments. If the bean paste flows slowly, the bean paste that flows down is not immediately fused with the bean paste in the pot, but gradually forms a pile, and then gradually fuses with the bean paste in the pot to start the pot.

3. Pour the bean paste into the white iron mold after boiling, cover it with smooth tissue paper to prevent cracks, keep it clean, and turn into pea yellow after cooling.

 

Practice 3

Ingredients

500 grams of peeled dried Pea Petals and 350 grams of white sugar.

step

1. Soften Pea Petals, put water and alkali noodles into stainless steel plate, boil the peas, and then pass through the basket.

2. When frying beans, we must strictly control the heat. If it's too tender and too much water, it's not easy to cut into pieces when it's solidified. If it's too old, cracks will appear after it's solidified, which will affect the appearance. In the process of frying, you must use the board to pick up the test, such as bean paste flowing down very slowly, pile into a pile.

3. Pour into the plate, cool and cut into small pieces.

 

Practice 4

Ingredients

Dried peas, sugar, sweet scented osmanthus (or honey), agar.

step

1. Peel, wash and soak the dried peas in water for more than 4 hours.

2. Put the soaked peas into the pot, add water 3 times the volume of peas, cook until the peas are soft and rotten, and let cool.

3. Put the soft peas and proper amount of water into the cooking machine to grind, pour out the pea mash and sift, so that it can be more delicate.

4. Soften agar, put it into a small pot, add a little water, and cook until melted.

5. Put the filtered pea into the pot, add sugar and dissolved agar, stir fry, remove the excess water.

6. Pour the pea into the flat bottom container, cover it with wet cloth to cool, then wrap it with plastic wrap, put it in the refrigerator to refrigerate, cut it into pieces and put it on a plate when eating, and pour sugar, osmanthus or honey on it.

 

Food features

The finished product is light yellow, delicate and pure. It tastes sweet, cool and refreshing.

 

What to eat

Value effect

Pea contains bifurcating acid, gibberellin, phytocoagulant and other substances, which have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects; it also contains rich lysine, which can stimulate the secretion of pepsin and gastric acid, improve the secretion of gastric juice, and play a role in improving appetite. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effect of reducing blood pressure, fat and weight.

 

matters needing attention

White sugar is a kind of pure thermal energy material, which contains high calories, but lacks vitamins, minerals, protein and other nutrients. In addition to causing obesity, it also stimulates the brain to release dopamine, making people addicted. In addition, often eat sweets, the skin is prone to acne, seborrheic dermatitis and other problems.

 

History and culture

Legend

It is said that one day Cixi was sitting in Beihai meditation studio to have a rest when she heard gongs and shouts coming from the street. She wondered what she was doing. The eunuch on duty reported that she was selling pea yellow and kidney bean rolls. For a moment, Cixi was so happy that she ordered him to come into the garden. When the visitor saw the old Buddha, he knelt down and held the kidney bean roll and pea yellow in his hands. Please show me the honor. Cixi tasted it and was full of praise. She left this man in the palace to make pea yellow and kidney bean rolls for her.

 

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