Raw materials such as wheat, sorghum, corn, millet and dried sweet potatoes are washed and soaked, and then ground into paste, commonly known as "pancake paste". In some places, one-third or half of the "clinker" (that is, 1989 cooked to mature raw materials) is added before grinding the batter, commonly known as "semi-cooked". The batter ground after "semi-baking" is easy to spread out, and the pancakes spread out are also soft and delicious. In some places, after the dried sweet potatoes are ground into flour, they should be soaked in water to leach out the black water in the sweet potato noodles. Some are directly soaked in dried sweet potatoes, but this delicate work is more troublesome. Dried sweet potatoes should be soaked in water for about a day, and then chopped with a knife after the water is completely dissolved. Then mix it with the soaked corn and grind it into paste on a water mill. And this process is time-consuming and laborious. The water mill is a round granite millstone with coarse grains and two pieces stacked together. Stripes are engraved on both contact surfaces of the disc to increase the grinding and paste discharge ability. There are two small holes in the last grinding disk, so you can add a spoonful of materials mixed with water at a time. The material can be crushed by pushing the upper grinding disc, and the pancake paste used for making pancakes flows out of the grinding gap between the upper and lower grinding discs. Horses, oxen or donkeys can be used to push the mill. Before liberation, only landlords used it, and ordinary families only used people to push it. One can push a small millstone. But it takes three or four people to push a big mill. Mechanical grinding is widely used. Usually, the batter is ground the night before, and the next morning, cigarettes, fires and pancakes are started. [5]

2. erect an axe.

The process of erecting tobacco may be simple but complicated. Simple erection method can directly support cymbals with three bricks; The complicated way is to paste a stove with hard mud and blow it with bellows. When the tobacco is erected, you can make a fire. In rural areas, corn stalks or wheat stalks are generally used as firewood. Making a fire and spreading pancakes are often the cooperation of two people. After the tobacco is heated, you can spread or roll the pancakes.

Step 3 spread pancakes

Before spreading, oil is often applied to the seeds, which can not only remove impurities from the seeds, but also make the pancakes easily separated from the seeds. When the tobacco is hot, you can put a spoonful of pancake paste on the tobacco with a spoon and smear it around the tobacco with a rake. Because tobacco is hot, pancake paste solidifies quickly wherever it goes, so it is called pancake. Use bamboo cleavers to carry forward the uncured ones (because they are not easy to use, young people can't learn them, and then they are gradually replaced by rakes), and repeat this process until the whole raft is full. The length of the rake is just equal to the radius of the tobacco leaves, so when the rake goes around the field, the pancakes are ready. In order to improve the quality of pancakes, before the pancake paste on the upper layer is completely solidified and fried, scrape it with a wooden board (called scraping batch) to make it flat and even in thickness. Because pancakes are thin and easy to cook, they should be cooked very quickly, that is, twenty or thirty seconds, otherwise they will be burnt. When it is ripe, you need to grab the spread pancake on the edge of hazelnut with a shovel in time. The size of pancakes depends on the seeds, and the diameter is generally between half a meter and 80 cm. The amount of batter applied to seeds determines the thickness of pancakes, and people with high level can spread out thin pancakes. Pancakes are very technical and cooked.