There is a kind of sesame cake in Huangqiao Town, Taixing, called Huangqiao sesame cake. This kind of sesame cake is made of pastry and dough, and it also has a filling. The filling is made of ham or lard. Once the sesame cakes are baked in the oven, they become crispy, brown, fragrant and very delicious. This kind of sesame cake is only available in this place.
According to "Suiyuan Food List", sesame cakes are "cracked with pine nuts and walnut kernels, added with rock sugar crumbs, fat and flour and baked". Huangqiao Shaobing has absorbed the ancient method of making Shaobing and has become a semi-dry pastry. It maintains the traditional characteristics of sweet and yellow sides, sprinkled with sesame on the outside and crispy on the inside. From popular varieties such as "short cake", "sesame cake" and "crispy sesame cake" to more than ten exquisite varieties with different fillings such as scallion oil, meat floss, diced chicken, sausage, sugar, orange cake, osmanthus, and fine sand, the sesame cakes are baked. , the color is crab shell red, not burnt, not burnt, not greasy, not greasy, and has good color, flavor and flavor.
Huangqiao Shaobing making is a traditional handicraft technique of making cake-shaped pastries using flour as the main raw material. The main flour used is wheat flour, a specialty of Huangqiao area. Its production techniques are mainly passed down by word of mouth between masters and apprentices, and have obvious local characteristics. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was a hot commodity in big cities in southern Jiangsu and various Southeast Asian countries.
The production process of Huangqiao Shaobing is relatively unique. It is very particular from the fermentation (mixing the dough). It is hot when the weather is cold, "snowflake seeds" are used when the weather is hot, and "rats are spraying sand" when it is lukewarm. The amount of alkali should also be adjusted according to the time. If the alkali is applied, the surface will bubble, otherwise it will stick to the teeth. For the stuffing and pastry, mix flour with lard and peanut oil to rub the pastry respectively. When making sesame cakes, put the pastry on the dough, knead it with your hands, then roll it up, then lightly beat it with a jingle, flip it to the bottom, beat it again, and change the direction. Beat again, then turn the bottom down, brush with sugar syrup, sprinkle with peeled sesame seeds, and bake in a barrel oven. The produced Huangqiao sesame cakes are golden in color, beautiful in appearance, crispy and delicious, not greasy and not greasy, and are suitable for the tastes of consumers from all over the world.
Among the wide variety of pastries, Huangqiao Shaobing is very famous, comparable to Beijing’s Poria Cake, Tianjin’s Hemp Flower, Shanghai’s Crab Shell Yellow, Yangzhou’s Fuchun Steamed Buns, Taizhou’s The peach kernel sesame cake is comparable to famous snacks.
Love. In 2003, it won the title of "Chinese snacks", in 2004, it won the "Jiangsu Food Expo Gold Medal", in 2005, it was rated as a famous brand product in Taizhou City, and in 2007, it passed the GB/T19001-2000idtISO9001:2000 standard certification. The reputation of Huangqiao Hotel spread further and further.
Historical legends
Shaobing has a long history. There is a chapter on "Bake Method" in Jia Sixie's "The Art of Qi Min" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and there is also a description of sesame cakes in Liu E's "Lao Can's Travels" in the Qing Dynasty. Although there is no written record of when Huangqiao Shaobing originated, a short story circulated among the people has some reference value. It is said that during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, a magistrate of Rugao County passed by Huangqiao and ate Huangqiao sesame cakes once, leaving a fragrant aroma on his teeth and cheeks that he would never forget. For example, Huangqiao and Huangqiao are more than 60 miles apart, so you can't make a special trip to eat. The county magistrate is not afraid of people saying that he is enjoying special privileges. He sends horses to Huangqiao every now and then to buy sesame cakes to satisfy his appetite. This story is not only reminiscent of the poem by Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu, "When a concubine rides in the world of mortals and laughs, no one knows the lychees are coming." It also tells us that Huangqiao Shaobing was famous at least more than 150 years ago.
The origin of Huangqiao Shaobing
Huangqiao Shaobing is produced in Huangqiao Town, northern Jiangsu. The reason why it is famous is closely connected with the famous Battle of Huangqiao. After the Battle of Huangqiao started under the direct command of Chen Yi, Su Yu and others, 12 agricultural mills and 60 sesame cake ovens in Huangqiao Town rushed to make sesame cakes day and night. War was raging outside the town, and the fires in the town were red. The local people braved the enemy's artillery fire to deliver sesame cakes to the front line, composing a magnificent song of victory in which the army loved the people and the people supported the army. After more than 30 years, in May 1975, General Su Yu returned to Huangqiao. The people of Huangqiao still entertained him warmly with Huangqiao sesame cakes. Holding the sesame cakes in his hand, he excitedly encouraged everyone: "We have seen from Huangqiao sesame cakes The army and the people are deeply affectionate, and we must continue to carry forward the revolutionary tradition and strive for greater glory."
The ancient sesame cakes are made with exquisite techniques. According to the "Suiguo Food List", the preparation of sesame biscuits is: "Crush pine nuts and walnut kernels, add rock sugar shavings, fat and flour and bake them." Huangqiao sesame biscuits have absorbed the ancient method of making sesame biscuits and maintained the sweet and sweet sides. The traditional feature of yellow cakes, sprinkled with sesame outside and fried inside, has developed from the general varieties such as "steamed cakes", "sesame cakes", "crispy sesame cakes", etc., to scallion oil, meat floss, diced chicken, sausages, sugar, There are more than ten exquisite varieties with different fillings such as orange cake, osmanthus, and fine sand. Huangqiao sesame cakes are either salty or sweet. The salty ones are filled with diced pork, meat floss, ham, dried shrimps, spices, etc. When the sesame cakes come out of the oven, they are crab shell red in color and neither burnt nor mushy nor raw. In 1983, it was rated as "Famous Special Food of Jiangsu Province".
According to historical records, during the Revolution of 1911, Huangqiao, with an area of ??less than two square kilometers and a population of less than 6,000, had nearly 20 pig shops, more than 20 oil shops, more than 10 wine shops, and more than 90 grain shops. Home. The prosperity of business and the increase of floating population have brought about the prosperity of the catering service industry. At that time, there were 100 hotels and inns, more than 20 restaurants, 4 bathrooms, 4 bookstores, and more than 60 sesame cake restaurants in the small Huangqiao!
With so many shaobing restaurants, competition within the industry is bound to arise.
The shopkeepers have to use their brains on the ingredients, production and varieties, and compare whose portions are bigger, whose taste is better, whose sesame seeds are sprinkled more. It is said that there are young apprentices from two shaobing restaurants who carry rattan plaques every day to "market". One family said, "Today my sesame cakes are served with two fat cubes. Of course, customers are vying to buy this one, but no one is buying that one." The next day, another person also added two diced lard. The result of "market competition" not only benefits consumers, but also greatly improves the quality of sesame cakes.
The daily perfection of Huangqiao Shaobing is the result of the hard work of generations of Shaobing masters, and also embodies the efforts of cultural people.
Earlier, the He family was a famous family in Huangqiao. During the more than 120 years from the 16th year of Chenghua to the 35th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the He family had a glorious history of "four Jinshi and ten excellent people". He Xuan, who lived during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, was only a tribute, but he wrote quite a lot. 80 volumes of his "History of Yun" are now in the Beijing Library. This old master not only made friends with great scholars such as Gong Zizhen and Li Zhaoluo, but also had many contacts with the sesame cake masters, and often discussed the techniques of making sesame cakes with them. It is said that the seasonal varieties produced according to the seasons, such as leek pancakes, shredded radish pancakes, and crab roe pancakes, were the old master’s idea.
Features
The cake is plump in shape, golden in color, crispy and juicy, especially hot when eaten
Cuisine
Rice and noodles staple food
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Shape
There are 5 types: round, long, square, oval and bevel. At present, Huangqiao Shaobing restaurants generally sell round and oval shapes, both sweet and salty.
Ingredients
500g flour, 15g refined salt, 10g yeast, 12.5g caramel, 125g lard, 100g chives, 35g peeled sesame seeds, 5g alkali, 135g cooked lard
Preparation method
Method 1
1. Add 250g of flour, yeast, warm water, knead into dough and let it ferment. After fermentation is successful, add it to the dough. Add alkaline water and the dough will be ready for use if it has no sour taste.
2. Add the remaining flour to cooked lard and mix into a dry pastry. Remove the lard film and cut into two square dices. Mix well with chopped green onion and salt. In addition, add minced green onion and refined salt to the dry pastry and mix well.
3. Roll the fermented dough into a long strip, cut it into twenty pieces, wrap each piece in dry pastry, and roll it into a three-inch long and two-inch wide dough. Fold it left and right and then roll it. Shape the dough into a dough, then roll it up from front to back, flatten it with the palm of your hand into a round dough of one inch and eight cents in diameter, spread it with pork suet (one penny and seven cents, and add a little scallion oil to pastry, seal it with the seal facing down, and make it two and a half inches in diameter) Spread a layer of caramel on the small round cake, sprinkle with sesame seeds, put it on the baking sheet, bake for five minutes, change the direction after 8 minutes of baking, and let it be fully baked.
Method 2
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Accessories: fat meat, meat floss, square ham, green onions
Seasonings: salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, pepper, sesame oil, lard< /p>
Cooking method:
1. Take an appropriate amount of flour, mix it with lard to make a dough, then take an appropriate amount of flour, add lard and white sugar, mix it with cold water to form a dough, then add water Form into a slightly soft dough, beat repeatedly and let it rise for a while;
2. Add pork floss, ham cubes, chopped green onion, salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, sesame oil, and pepper to the fat meat and mix well to form a filling;
3. Stack the mixed pastry and water-oil noodles in a ratio of 3:5, then roll into a ball, flatten and roll out thinly, roll into a roll, flatten again, and cut into evenly sized pieces. , fill it with stuffing to make a pancake, brush the surface with egg wash, then dip it in sesame seeds, put a little oil in a pan, place the sesame seeds side down, and fry until both sides are golden.
Features: Golden in color, crispy and delicious.
Huangqiao Shaobing in the War
War is cruel, it destroys countless living lives and destroys many beautiful things. However, Huangqiao sesame cakes became famous after withstanding the baptism of artillery fire.
In 1940, in the decisive battle of Huangqiao that shocked China and foreign countries, the people of Huangqiao braved the hail of bullets to cook baskets and baskets. Huangqiao Shaobing was delivered to the front line, which solved the problem of three meals a day for the 6,000 soldiers of the New Fourth Army and boosted their fighting spirit. Therefore, a song "Huangqiao Shaobing Song" was born amidst the artillery fire, and was sung from north to south to both inside and outside the Great Wall. The coast of the East China Sea has been sung to the Northwest Plateau and has been sung to this day. In the 1970s, Gu Jinan's essay "Huangqiao Shaobing" was published in the "People's Daily"; in the 1980s, the movie "The Battle of Huangqiao" was broadcast nationwide, reflecting a large number of Huangqiao Shaobing. Novels, essays, and poems about the Battle of Qiao were published in newspapers... All of this made Huangqiao Shaobing even more famous.
Huangqiao people have the habit of eating breakfast in many different ways. There are chicken and fish soups from Jiujin Family, and crab roe soup dumplings from Haier Family... But they are expensive, and most people can't afford them. They can only eat popular breakfasts, such as fried dough sticks, sesame balls, noodles and wontons, etc. But they are expensive. The favorite and most commonly eaten food of Huangqiao people is sesame cakes. Sesame cakes are cheap and easy to eat. There is still a saying that "three sesame cakes and a bowl of tea will make your stomach full." It can be said that Huangqiao people. They grew up eating Shaobing. Zhu Luxian, the founding father of the Revolution of 1911, Ding Wenjiang, the father of modern Chinese geology, Ding Xilin, the famous physicist and comedy master, and Wang Debao, the famous biochemist, all grew up eating Huangqiao Shaobing.
Zhang Lihua, the main writer of Peking Opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom", has been addicted to Huangqiao Shaobing since he was a child. He eats it not only in the morning, but also at noon and evening. He said that crucian carp soup and sesame cakes soaked in tripe lung soup are more delicious than delicacies from the mountains and seas. At that time, Huangqiao Shaobing was just a simple wine-fermented dough cake. The flour was fermented with wine ferment, and then a little oil was added on a grass stove and baked over low heat until both sides were browned. It was shaped like an upside-down small cake. washbasin. Today's Huangqiao sesame cakes are only about the size of a palm, and only half an inch thick. The outermost layer is a thick layer of browned sesame seeds, which are round and golden. They look like an exquisite, translucent and exquisite small handicraft. Of course, the content inside is so This is something that the bloody soldiers of 65 years ago would never have dared to imagine. There was no filling in the Huangqiao Shaobing 65 years ago. Simply adding a little sugar to the noodles was considered the best among the Shaobings. Now the main fillings of Huangqiao Shaobing are meat floss, ham, dried shrimps, scallion oil, Chicken, sausage, etc. are stuffed with lard, chives and noodles. Baked in a temperature-controlled electric oven, the sesame cakes are yellow on the outside and soft on the inside, crab shell red in color, not burnt, not burnt, not greasy and not greasy. , take a bite, the aroma is overflowing, and the scallion oil fills the corners of your mouth.
The New Fourth Army and Huangqiao Shaobing
In 1940, the New Fourth Army marched eastward, opened up an anti-Japanese base area, and fought a fierce battle here in Huangqiao, which was called the famous Battle of Huangqiao. The New Fourth Army continued to fight day and night, sometimes without a single meal for several days. The local people in Huangqiao were very anxious when they saw this scene. They later came up with a way to use this kind of sesame seed cake to comfort the New Fourth Army. People rushed to do it day and night, and they were guided by special people. They started doing it on a small scale, and then it became popular and everyone in the town started doing it. After the New Fourth Army ate this kind of sesame seed cakes, they gained strength and fought very vigorously. Finally, a great victory was achieved.
The inspiration of "Huangqiao Shaobing"
"Huangqiao Shaobing" and "private brand" have also become "famous brands". In fact, McDonald's, KFC, hamburgers, and pizza all continue to improve and innovate on the basis of adhering to themselves, and develop in step with the times, thus becoming popular all over the world and lasting forever. As long as China's famous and high-quality local products aim at world standards and give full play to their own advantages, they will surely be as famous as "Huangqiao Shaobing" and "Yangtze Steamed Buns" overseas. This is why "Huangqiao Shaobing" and "Yangtze Steamed Buns" are even more "evocative" " place.