Mini Fritters
by Find a piece of ease_
Favorite
A short story about You Tiao: You Tiao is one of the favorite foods of the Chinese public. The original name for fried dough sticks was called "fried juniper", and it is said that it was first invented by the people of Lin'an.
According to legend, during the Southern Song Dynasty, the evil prime minister Qin Hui and his wife Wang were jealous and greedy, and they were acquainted with the Kingdom of Jin. They made a vicious plan in the East Window and killed Yue Fei, who was loyal and loyal to the country. When the news spread, the common people were filled with indignation, restaurants and teahouses, streets and alleys were discussing this matter.
At that time, under the Anqiao River, there were two food stalls, one selling sesame spring onion biscuits and the other selling fried glutinous rice dumplings. On this day, the morning market had just ended. Wang Ertong, who made sesame cakes, arranged the last stack of green onion sesame cakes left over on the stove, and sat on a bench to rest after seeing if there was no buyer. At this time, Li Si, who was making glutinous rice balls, had also packed up the pan and squatted there to smoke a bag of cigarettes.
The two greeted each other, they chatted together, talked about it, and talked about Qin Hui's murder of Yue Fei. Both of them were very angry and wanted to use a way to express their views on this matter. After much deliberation, Wang Er thought of a way, and saw that he got two gnocchi from the panel, kneaded and kneaded them, kneading them together, and before long they became two buns, one with an eyebrow, and the other with a crooked eyebrow. Poor mouth. He grabbed the gnocchi and slashed the dangling rogue's neck horizontally, and then pierced the crooked-mouthed woman's belly.
When Li Si saw it, he thought it was not just right, so he ran back to his stall, brought the oil pan to the stove where Wang Er's sesame seed was baked, and squeezed the two sliced buns again, back to back. Stick them together and throw them into a hot oil pan to fry them. While the noodle maker yelled, "Look at the fried cypress! Everyone, look at the fried cypress!"
The pedestrians in the past heard the "fried juniper" and felt it was so fresh, they all surrounded them. Everyone saw that there were two ugly people in the oil pan, they were squeaking deep-fried, and they understood what was going on, and they shouted: "Look, look, fried juniper! Look, look! , Fried juniper!"
It just so happened that Qin Hui was sitting on the eight-carriage sedan chair and was retreating from the imperial palace to the mansion, passing Cong'anqiao. Qin Hui heard noisy shouts in the sedan chair, and felt that the sound pierced his heart, so he stopped the sedan chair and immediately sent his soldiers to arrest people. The soldiers squeezed into the crowd, grabbed Wang Er and Li Si, and even brought the oil pan to the sedan chair. Qin Hui saw the two ugly people who had burnt in the oil pan, with their angry cheeks and beards facing upwards. Stepped out of the sedan chair and howled loudly: "What a courage! Do you want to rebel?"
Wang Er replied in an unusually calm heart: "We are small businesses and are not interested in rebellion."
Qin Hui said: "If this is the case, how can you dare to use the official's name indiscriminately?"
Wang Er said: "Oh, Lord Prime Minister, you are the juniper by the wood, and I am the stew by the fire!"
At this time, the crowd onlookers shouted, "Yes, yes, the pronunciation is different!" Qin Hui had nothing to say. It looked at the two ugly people floating in the oil pan, and shouted: "Don't be solicitous! How can you eat this stuff like black charcoal! It is clearly two unsophisticated people gathering all living things to deceive the Mongolian government!"
Hearing what Qin Hui said, two people immediately stood up from the crowd and said: "It's going to be fried like this, it's going to be fried like this!" At the same time, he picked up the noodles in the oil pan. He continued to say, "It's delicious, delicious! The more I eat my teeth, the more relaxed I am. I really want to swallow it in one bite!" Then, the angry Qin Hui's face looked like purple pig liver, so he had to stare at the sedan chair. After a drill, he ran away dingy.
The rogue Qin Hui was eaten up in public, and this incident shook the city of Lin'an. People rushed to come from Onkyo, all wanting to eat "fried juniper". Wang Er and Li Si simply joined forces to start a "fried juniper" business.
Later, because dough kneaders took a lot of time and customers had to queue for a long time, Wang Er and Li Si came up with a simple method. They knead a large dough evenly and spread it out, cut it into many small strips with a knife, and took two, one is the rogue Qin Hui and the other is the Diao Po Wang Clan. They are pressed with a stick, twisted together, and put in the oil. Fried in the pan, still called it "fried juniper".
The common people originally ate "fried juniper" to relieve their resentment, but the taste is really good and the price is cheap, so more and more people eat it. For a while, many stalls in and out of Lin'an City learned how to do it, and then gradually spread to other places. Over time, these long strips are called "youtiao". "