Northerners love to eat pasta, and the patterns they make are varied and have different flavors. But in Beijing, it has the greatest influence, and most people eat it. The first one is Shandong [Qiqiang] steamed bread. At that time, "steamed bread shops" could be seen in the streets and alleys of old Beijing, among which most of them sold Shandong steamed bread.
The traditional practice of flour steamed bread is to ferment with "old flour fertilizer" and put it into flour, then cover it with a wet cloth, let it stand for a while, then add a proper amount of alkaline water to remove the sour taste, and then add dry flour to knead it repeatedly. If there is too much dry flour, the natural dough will become harder and harder. If you can't knead it by hand, knead it with a thick stick.
"Knead the flour" means "Knead the flour vigorously with dry flour". Kneading the dough with dry flour will inevitably absorb some water in the dough, so that the steamed bread is chewy, chewy, sweet and delicious. At that time, I bought it home, and I didn't need to order anything. I could eat two with one mouth.
Shandong flour steamed bread has a cylindrical shape called "high-pile steamed bread" and a square shape cut with a knife is called "knife cut steamed bread". They all taste the same, but they are different in shape. At that time, when we went out to do business or travel, we all brought our own "dry food". The first choice is naturally flour steamed bread, which is delicious and durable. When eaten in the stomach, it is really the favorite of ordinary people.
With the development and changes of the times, materials are also greatly enriched, and various novel foods emerge one after another. Naturally, Shandong dough steamed bread has gradually lost its important position in people's lives, and the almost primitive production method has long since disappeared. Now there are also steamed bread wrapped in flour made by machines or artificially, but the taste is poor. The stressful scene and the delicious steamed bread can only be left in memory.