The raw materials of Qibao cake are mung bean, flour, meat oil and sucrose. First, mung beans must be washed to remove impurities, and then soaked in clear water for about 7-8 hours. Generally, you start soaking at around 10 in the evening and pick it up the next morning. Then, grind them with a stone mill. The upper and lower grinding surfaces are not close, but there is a certain interval, that is, the wood axis of the stone mill is slightly higher than that of the general stone mill, and its height requires that mung beans can be ground without damaging the mung bean core. After grinding, wash the mung bean skin. Add water and sugar to the flour, then add a proper amount of lard and mix well to make the dough. About every 65,438+00 Jin of cake material, add 5 Jin of sucrose, and the sweetness of the skin is the same. Make it into a cake, then put it on a frying pan and fry it slowly with charcoal until it is dark brown.
Because it is sweet, oily and crisp, it is easy to eat and difficult to give up. Besides, it has always been a top treatment and gift, and it is still a famous cake for Cheng Zi and the yard. In Yuegang, glutinous rice cakes are always steamed on holidays and weddings, which are called "sweet fruits". Those who participate in brown sugar are called "red sweet fruits", those who participate in white sugar are called "white sweet" and "red and white sweet" have their own characteristics.
According to Fang Li, Volume 16 of the Annals of Haicheng County published by Qianlong, "At the entrance of the county, Nancheng is in Qiqi Street, Dongcheng is at the new intersection, and Xicheng is in Xia Ting Street". Today it is collectively called Zhongshan Road. When the county was established, it was an important detour route from Zhangpu in the east to Longxi in the west. There is a stone archway in the east and west sections, and the new road in the east section is called "Cui Xian Square" (which still exists today). In the west, due to the large number of guests in the past, there are many kinds of snack bars, and several kinds of "sweet rice fruits" are resistant to hunger, sweet and have good business.
There is a folklore that the cookie shop under the liberation of Xia Ting Street has the highest technology and the best sales. The boss, surnamed Bai, is kind and is honored as "Xiangge", and the steamed sweet cakes he makes are called "Xiangge". On the basis of the steaming technology of sweet rice fruit, he constantly improved and perfected it. First, he chose the best quality glutinous rice, soaked it in clear water for about an hour, then picked it up, ground it and blended it with sugar water. Ten kilograms of glutinous rice and six kilograms of sugar are mixed together. Sweet glutinous rice has two layers, the lower layer is mixed with brown sugar and the upper layer with white sugar. After soaking glutinous rice flour in sugar, put it in a stone mortar and hammer it until it reaches glutinous rice. The upper and lower layers of sweet skin overlap, and the thickness of the lower layer is slightly higher than that of the upper layer, accounting for about two-thirds. Sprinkle sugar wax gourd and fat blocks (about the size of soybeans) on the cake surface, and crush a small amount of fine salt particles. Then put it in a steamer, cover it with a thick layer of "bean skin" (bean products), cook and steam thoroughly, and then sprinkle with fried and mashed peanuts and fried peanuts after heat dissipation. Bai must steam 30 kilograms of cakes every day. From ingredients to steaming, he arranges it himself and then gives it to his daughter.
His daughter is called Bai Xiuyu. When Bai's business was booming, his daughter was just twenty or eighty years old. She is elegant and beautiful, with fair and soft skin and a glib tongue. Therefore, she was called "Miss Xiuyu" or "Miss Yurun", and her father and daughter were named "Ge Xiang Run". Later, she was named "Gao Shuang Run".
The white elephant told her daughter that 30 kilograms of glutinous rice cookies should be cut into 150 pieces, each of which is a diamond. Every day when the shop window is opened, there are always customers rushing to buy "double cakes", but she is calm and comfortable, neatly cut and weighed, and never lacks two pounds. There is no mistake in collecting money and finding money. Buyers praise her for "accurate calculation".
Among the customers, the most striking one is Suershe, the owner of Haifeng Yufenglong Sugar Store, a millionaire. Every morning, he personally goes to the town to buy "double cake run". As long as he doesn't see Miss Yurun, he is anxious to buy a cake all day long. He was full of praise: "It's so moist and white. When saving money, a pair of slippery eyes greedily stuck to her and wanted to look back while walking; Unexpectedly, once, I bumped my head on the hard stone of Shibeifang at the new intersection, and my forehead was swollen with a big pimple. People asked what had happened to herschel. He told a careless lie: "The touch, smell and taste of double cakes are so lovely that I can't bear to look at them more." It doesn't hurt to bump into' Hua Biao' in the future. " This made everyone laugh. Later, someone made up a quip and said, "Sue-her eyes are fixed on the double cake and her head is hitting the shining stone! Serve you right! "As soon as this matter spread, it became a joke in Haicheng for a long time, poking fun at those who were absent-minded or did things without hesitation.
Haicheng's "double cake run" is really delicious and nutritious, and it has long been a well-known scenic spot at home and abroad. When relatives and friends visit and get together, drinking tea is regarded as a rich etiquette; Nowadays, Taiwan compatriots and overseas Chinese in Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines will never forget to taste the "double cakes" in Haicheng every time they return to Chengcheng. At present, the "double cake run" in Haicheng is still a famous brand-name snack at home and abroad, which generally follows the old technology.