Eight cakes in Beijing are divided into three types: eight cakes with crispy skin, eight cakes with small milk skin and eight cakes with fine wine skin. 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".
There are eight ***25 patterns, which are divided into three types: first line, broken skin and crispy skin.
"The first line" is the jargon of pastry industry, which means the variety that must be made first. It is characterized by high oil content and sugar content; The processes of dough mixing and molding are relatively simple; They are all made into blanks with molds of various shapes, so that various patterns are printed on the surface, and the appearance is beautiful and generous; When baking, fire is usually used.
The pattern of "first line": peach cake (bat cake, peach kernel cake, egg yolk cake, square cake, almond cake, sesame cake, white cake, etc.), bala cake, zhuangyuan cake, etc.
The surface of the finished peach crisp is dark wheat yellow, and there are even small beehives inside. The flavor is characterized by crisp, soft and oily taste, and it is most suitable for the elderly and children.
The shape of the egg yolk cake is peach and bat, which is made of egg yolk, big oil, soft sugar and refined powder. Cut it into a peach or bat shape with a mold, and the word "longevity" is in the group. The color is wheat yellow, the taste is crisp and soft, clear and refreshing, and it has the fragrance of osmanthus and egg yolk.
Bala cake is a round cake with natural spreading patterns. The main raw materials are refined powder, white oil, soft sugar, peach kernel, osmanthus and so on. The surface of the finished product is printed with a round pattern of longevity, with three melon seeds on it. After baking, it naturally spreads, and it is green and white. It has a strong fragrance of white oil and peach kernel, crisp and sweet.
Zhuangyuan cake (jujube paste cake) is made of refined powder, white oil, fresh eggs and soft sugar. It is stuffed with jujube paste. It has a flat and round shape and a flower pattern, with the word "No.1" in the middle. It is a traditional famous product among the big eight pieces. According to legend, in the early years of Qing Dynasty, there was an examination room in Dongcheng Gen, Beijing. In order to cater to the hearts of scholars who took the examination, a Jinlanzhai tea shop in Suzhou Hutong nearby named the two kinds of cakes "Zhuangyuan Cake" and "Jinshi Cake" respectively, and the words "No.1 Scholar" were printed on the surface of the cakes. Because of the crispy stuffing, the flavor is excellent, so it is popular for a while and has been passed down to this day.
Eight pieces of wine skins Eight pieces of wine skins are divided into two categories, big and small, and seven varieties. Eight small wine skins per catty 18, and eight large wine skins per catty 12.
Eight pieces of wine skin are complex in technology and fine in production. They are unique products in Beijing and are known as the essence of Beijing-style cakes.
This product is characterized by high oil content and less sugar content; The skin is made of yellow rice wine or milk, so it is called wine skin and milk skin, so don't spare the flavor; The appearance of the finished product gives people a hard feeling, but the taste is crisp, not easy to break, and easy to carry, which belongs to hard crust cakes. The making of stuffing is divided into two methods: frying stuffing and wiping stuffing. The tastes are sweet and salty, salt and pepper, rose, banana, sweet-scented osmanthus, green plum, grape, pine nut, jujube paste, chengsha and other fragrant types. Product appearance is varied, and beautification methods are also different; Some are made into peaches, apricots and other fruit shapes by hand, some are made into words such as blessing, luck, longevity and happiness by cutting with molds, and some surfaces are beautified by methods such as blowing face, punching and pressing flowers. The appearance of fire is light, and the face is mostly blue and white, which looks elegant and pleasant. The variety of the face is golden yellow, and the handwriting made by the mold, after the face is washed, is like a letterpress, giving people a three-dimensional sense. Generally speaking, this kind of products have the characteristics of hard impression, crisp taste, delicate stuffing, diverse tastes, beautiful appearance, realistic modeling, not easy to break and easy to carry.
Crispy eight pieces Crispy eight pieces are a category of Beijing eight pieces, with eleven patterns. Exquisite processing is also the essence of Beijing-style cakes.
Skin, crisp and stuffing are the main components of the eight pieces of pastry. This kind of products are characterized by many patterns, milky white and clean color, both model patterns and craft shapes. They look beautiful and elegant, pleasing to the eye, taste crisp and delicate outside, sweet and fragrant, and have a variety of kernel flavors.
The main patterns of the eight pieces of pastry are: green plum zygote, Huang San colored cake (yellow bubble cake), thin muffin, five-petal cake, three-fairy cake, tiger skin cake, Fengyun cake, hawthorn peach, silver ingot cake, all the best, happy flowers and so on.
The implication of Beijing Eight Pieces * * Eight kinds of Beijing Eight Pieces, namely, happiness, fortune, longevity, happiness, wealth, literature, etc., both elegant and vividly show the beautiful meaning of the "eight pieces" happy events in people's lives at that time.
1, Fuzi cake symbolizes happiness;
2. Taishi cake symbolizes high officials and high salaries;
3, the peach cake symbolizes longevity and longevity;
4, hi-word cakes, square with double "hi" characters, mostly used for wedding snacks;
5, silver ingot cake, is a symbol of wealth with salty and salty stuffing;
6. Crispy cakes are also salty and salty fillings, which symbolizes the imperial high school and has a bright future.
7, chicken oil cake, there is a homophonic meaning of "Jiqing has more than enough"
8, jujube cake, may mean that young couples have a baby early, and there must be men and women who have flowers.
Beijing Eight Pieces, an old Beijing snack cake, is not only delicious, but also beautiful and has a better meaning.