The eight big pieces
Also known as the northern-style pastry, represented by the Beijing region. Beijing-style pastries, a long history, a wide range of categories, different tastes, with heavy oil, light sugar, fluffy and soft, pure sweet taste, pure salt and other characteristics. Representative varieties of Beijing eight pieces and red and white moon cakes. Among them, Beijing eight pieces have big eight pieces, small eight pieces and fine eight pieces. The eight pieces are filled with eight kinds of fillings such as hawthorn, rose, plum, sugar, bean paste, jujube paste, pepper, raisins, etc., wrapped with flour containing cooking oil, and placed in various patterns of molds and carefully baked into the surface. There are various shapes such as cashew, drum, Buddha's hand, bat, peach, pomegranate, etc. and they are small and exquisite. It is crispy in the mouth and has a pure flavor. The special product is fine eight pieces, the production of fine layers of uniform, soft filling sand, fruit flavor is pure and thick. Appearance also has three immortal, silver ingot, osmanthus, blessing, fortune, longevity, happy peach and other eight kinds of patterns, is the Beijing-style pastry in the quality of the product.
Eight Small Pieces
Old times, Beijing people visiting friends and relatives to carry gifts, pay attention to send "Beijing eight pieces", that is, "big eight pieces", "small eight pieces". This is the original Qing Hu royal family wedding and funeral ceremonies and daily life in the essential gifts and furnishings, and then the recipe by the Imperial Household Restaurant to the people. Its main ingredients are refined white flour, sugar, lard, honey and a variety of fruit seeds. The so-called "eight pieces", i.e., eight kinds of confectionery, generally have hemp cake, jujube flower, roll pastry, some engraved with different characters such as blessing, fortune, longevity, happiness, and so on. There are round, peach-shaped, square, etc., in a rectangular cardboard box. The "little man piece" is a double, sixteen pieces in a cardboard box. In the past, meet the daughter back to her mother's home, to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, etc., are to go to the pastry store to buy a box of eight pieces of large carry in the hands, generous and beautiful.
Large eight pieces are generally eight pieces of a **** a catty, small eight pieces are generally eight pieces of a **** half a catty.
Large eight pieces, small eight pieces. To eight different varieties of pastries with a group of one catty called the big eight pieces, generally as a gift with the most appropriate. Small eight pieces are also eight varieties of sixteen small pieces for a catty. As gifts, are mainly large eight pieces, the quality is very high. The name of eight different kinds of pastries, the big eight pieces as follows: one, turn over the cake, two, big roll pastry, three, big oil cake, four, butterfly rolls, five, the width of the child pastry, six, chicken oil cake, seven, the first prize cake, eight, the seven stars Dizi. Small eight pieces than the big eight pieces of small one: one, fruit tarts, two, small roll pastry, three, small peach cake, four, small chicken oil cake, five, small screw pastry, six, salty dianzi, seven, jujube flower, eight, pit face. The latter four are the most popular among children. Especially the date flower, twisted into petals with date paste, very beautiful.
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Shape of dim sum (pastry craftsmanship)
Chinese food culture has a long and long history, as part of the Chinese food and drink - Chinese dim sum, after a long period of practice by our working people, especially the inheritance and development of the dim sum masters, dim sum is more and more varieties. For example, there are more and more varieties of dim sum, such as buns, dumplings, cakes, dumplings, rolls, cakes, crisps, strips, jellies, rice, congee and so on. Through thousands of years of creation of the confectionery masters, their basic form is also colorful, realistic shape, such as: geometric, pictorial, natural shape and so on.
Baked goods are introduced from the West, and although they are convenient and nutritious, they are still slightly inferior to Chinese dim sum in terms of modeling. But why can't we Chinese bakers learn from our own country's best in this area? The following is an excerpt from an article in "Pastry Craftsmanship" for our baking colleagues to share.
I. The shape of dim sum
1. Buns
Buns mainly refers to various types of buns, belonging to the fermented dough. There are many kinds of patterns, according to the degree of fermentation is divided into large packets, small packets; according to the shape is divided into: pleated packets, such as three ding buns, small dumplings, etc.; fancy packets, such as: peach buns, goldfish buns, etc.; seamless packets, such as: sugar buns, crystal buns, etc..
2. Dumplings
Dumplings are an important form of pastry in China, the shape of which are: wooden fish-shaped, such as dumplings, wontons, etc.; crescent-shaped, such as steamed dumplings, pot stickers, dumplings, etc.; comb back shape, such as shrimp dumplings, etc.; horn-shaped, such as pot stickers, etc.; bird's head-shaped, such as small wontons, etc.; there are also other varieties of hieroglyphs, such as fancy steamed dumplings and so on. According to its ingredients, there are: water dumplings, such as dumplings, steamed dumplings, pot stickers; oil dumplings, such as: curry pastry dumplings, eyebrow dumplings, etc.; and others such as shrimp dumplings on clarified noodles, cornmeal steamed dumplings, red and white dumplings made of rice flour, and so on.
3. Cakes
Cakes are made of rice, flour, eggs and other main ingredients. Rice flour cakes are: loose cake, such as five-color round muffin, red bean lard muffin, etc.; sticky cake, such as lard sugar rice cakes, rose honey cake, etc.; fermented cakes, such as Lunjiao cake, cotton cake, etc.. Flour-based cakes include lasagna, honey cake, and so on. Cakes are clear cakes, fancy cakes, and so on. Others are, yam cake, horseshoe cake, chestnut cake, peanut cake and other cakes made from fruits, dried fruits, mixed grains, vegetables and so on.
4. Groups
Groups often with the cake and called cake, generally made of rice flour as the main raw material, mostly spherical. Varieties are: raw flour dough, such as dumplings, pigeon round, etc.; cooked flour dough, such as double-filled dough. Other varieties include fruit-filled dumplings and hemp dumplings.
5. roll class
With a wide range of materials, varieties change. Varieties are: leavening rolls, can be divided into roll flower rolls, such as four happy rolls, butterfly rolls, chrysanthemum rolls, etc.; folded rolls, such as pig's claw rolls, lotus leaf rolls, etc.; stretching and cutting the rolls, such as silk rolls, chicken rolls and so on. Rice (flour) dough rolls, such as: Ruyi sesame cold rolls. Cake rolls, such as if the sauce cake rolls. Puff pastry rolls, such as olive break pastry rolls. Cake rolls, such as sesame milk rolls. Other special varieties such as spring rolls.
6. cake
Cake for China's long history of one of the varieties. According to the different biscuits can be divided into: water cakes, such as pancakes, cakes, etc.; leavened cakes, such as Huangqiao biscuits, wine cakes, etc.; crispy cakes, such as scallion shortcake, Su-style moon cakes, etc.; other rice flour made of fried rice cakes, egg noodles made of meat pot cake, fruit and vegetable cereals made of water chestnut cake, osmanthus corn cake, etc..
7. Crisp
Crisp mostly for the water and oil crust pastry. According to the way of expression are: bright pastry, such as mandarin duck pastry oil, XuanHua pastry, lotus root pastry, etc.; dark pastry, such as double-hemp pastry, etc.; semi-dark pastry, such as apple pastry, etc.. There are other varieties of mixed pastry such as peach crisp, lotus seed paste and manna crisp.
8. Article class
Article class mainly refers to the noodles, rice noodles and other long noodles. Noodles are: marinated noodles in sauce, such as dan dan noodles, fried noodles, halo noodles, etc.; soup noodles, such as noodles in clear soup, colorful soup noodles, etc.; fried noodles, such as vegetarian fried noodles, Yifu noodles, etc.; and other cold noodles, stewed noodles, braised noodles and other varieties. Oil sticks, Yunnan's Bridge Rice Noodles and so on also belong to the strips of products.
9. rice
Rice for the majority of people in China, especially in the south of the staple food. Can be divided into ordinary rice and fancy rice two kinds. Ordinary rice is divided into steamed rice, stewed rice, etc., fancy rice can be divided into fried rice, rice, vegetables and rice and eight treasures.
10. porridge
Porridge is also one of the staple food of our people, divided into ordinary porridge and fancy porridge two categories. Ordinary porridge is divided into boiling porridge and stewed porridge. Fancy porridge can be divided into sweet porridge, such as mung bean porridge, Lapa porridge, etc.; savory porridge, such as fish porridge, egg porridge, etc..
11. Jelly
Jelly for the summer seasonal varieties, mainly sweet, such as watermelon jelly, almond tofu and so on.
12. Other categories
In addition to the previously mentioned forms of pastry, there are some common varieties such as steamed bread, twisted, dumplings, dumplings, siu mai and so on, which are also loved by the people.