What are the eight side dishes of old Beijing spring pancake?

The top ten dishes of spring cake rolls are fried sauerkraut powder with meat, fried bean sprouts with shredded pork, fried eggs with shredded potato, fried pork with shredded leek, fried pork with shredded Chinese cabbage, fried vermicelli with carrots, shredded beef with chicken and shredded bamboo shoots with Beijing sauce, which are very nutritious.

There are many ways to make spring cakes, and the side dishes in different regions may be different, but the general side dishes are composed of three meats, three vegetables and two seasoning dishes.

Generally, you can choose shredded pork, shredded egg, shredded ham, mung bean sprouts, carrots, spinach, bean sprouts, leeks, shepherd's purse, coriander, tomatoes, pumpkins, green peppers and so on. They are all seasonal ingredients in spring and are very suitable for making spring cakes.

The origin of eating spring cakes:

The custom of eating spring cakes in beginning of spring originated from the Tang Dynasty, also called "biting spring". Because at the beginning of spring, when spring returned to the earth, everything revived and all kinds of vegetables sprouted, people began to try very early. The ancients wrapped seasonal vegetables in dough, rolled them into rolls, steamed them or fried them, and named them spring cakes, which symbolized the bumper harvest of grains and the symbol of spring, and gave them to each other to welcome the spring.

The original spring cake is a kind of pancake baked or steamed with flour. When eating, it is often eaten with bean sprouts, spinach, leeks, vermicelli and other stir-fried dishes, or with spring cake cabbage.

Beginning of spring, an old Beijinger, eats spring cakes differently from ordinary pancakes. He pays attention to the use of scalded noodles, which are not only fine, but also split in two.

There must be many dishes in the cake, which should be accompanied by meat and vegetables. There are meat dishes such as donkey meat, smoked belly, smoked elbow, sauce strips, small belly with sauce, and vegetarian dishes such as fried rice noodles, fried spinach and fried bean sprouts.