1. A fortune cookie symbolizing happiness.
2. Taishi cake symbolizing high officials and high salaries.
3. A peach cake symbolizing longevity.
4. There are square happy cakes with double "happy" characters.
5. There are silver ingot cakes symbolizing wealth, and salty and crisp fillings.
6. It's a crispy cake like a book, and it's also a salty and salty filling.
7. Chicken oil cake with homophonic "Jiqing has more than enough".
8. Jujube cake may mean that young couples have a baby early, and there must be men and women to have a baby together.
* * * Eight kinds of happiness, wealth, longevity, happiness, wealth, literature, etc., both elegant and vividly show the "eight happy events" in people's lives at that time, which is the origin of the name "Big Eight".
"Beijing Eight Pieces" is the most distinctive traditional product in Beijing-style cakes. In the Qing Dynasty, it has always been an indispensable gift and exhibit for the royal family, royal sacrifices and ceremonies, weddings, funerals and even daily life.
"Beijing Eight Pieces" was not originally the name of pastry. At the beginning, cakes engraved with good words such as "Fu", "Shou", "Lu", "Xi" and "All the best" were placed in eight plates to make various patterns, so they became eight pieces in Beijing.
Eight pieces of Beijing are divided into three types: eight pieces of crispy skin, eight pieces of small milk skin and eight pieces of fine wine skin. They are all snacks with stuffing, and the main difference lies in the skin: eight pieces of pastry are pastry, which are mixed with flour twice and crispy on the surface; Eight pieces of wine skin and milk skin are hard-skin snacks. Mix flour once, and add appropriate amount of yellow wine, brandy or fresh milk respectively, so as to have wine and milk fragrance. In addition, their shapes are slightly smaller than the big eight pieces, and there are fewer patterns.
The stuffing of Beijing Eight Pieces is mostly fried stuffing. The main ingredients are white sugar, hawthorn, jujube paste, sand, etc., plus some auxiliary materials such as nuts, osmanthus, roses and honey. Delicate silk, soft taste, with the sweet fragrance of honey, so it is also called "honey stuffing".
The general characteristics of Beijing Eight Pieces are: white color (if you use soybean oil and rapeseed oil to make dough, the skin color is slightly yellow), crisp and soft taste, pure sweet and salty taste, in addition, there are wine fragrance, milk fragrance, jujube fragrance, bean fragrance, kernel fragrance and natural flower fragrance, etc. At present, there are eight shapes of eight pieces, such as oblate, wishful, peach, apricot, kidney, jujube flower, lotus leaf and oval, and eight kinds of fillings, such as rose, banana, plum, sugar, jujube paste, bean paste, bean paste and salt and pepper. This is a new meaning of Beijing Eight Pieces.
As for the Beijing Eight Pieces at the station, why few people care about them? The main reason is that many of them are of poor quality and taste. Everyone who wants to buy Beijing Eight Pieces will buy them in a special store.
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