"Jinhua Shortcake" is golden in color, crisp and delicious, and it is a famous snack in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province.
Interestingly, its founder is "devil incarnate" Cheng.
Cheng, one of the 24 founding fathers of the Tang Dynasty, made a living selling baked wheat cakes in Jinhua in his early years. Once, he made too many cookies and didn't sell them all day. He left the cake behind to continue selling it tomorrow. However, if the cookies go bad, they can't be sold. Therefore, in order to prevent the biscuits from going bad, Cheng put all the biscuits on the stove. He thought: keep the fire roasting, and the sesame cake will not go bad! The next day, when Cheng got up, he saw that the meat oil in the sesame cake was baked, and the crust was more oily and brittle, all of which were shortcakes. As soon as this cake went on the market, it immediately attracted many people. Everyone saw that Cheng's cakes were very different from before, and they all scrambled to taste them. Cheng shouted at the top of his lungs with joy: "Come and buy it! Sweet and crisp shortbread! " It's called, many people buy it. People think that the technology is getting better and better. Some cake shop owners also solemnly asked Cheng for the "secret recipe".
Cheng burst out laughing and said, "I have no secret recipe! Just a night by the fire. " Later, Cheng improved the sesame cake, and the crisp cake was round like a teacup, shaped like a crab shell, with sesame seeds on the surface and golden on both sides, and with the fragrance of dried vegetables and meat stuffing, it had a unique flavor.
Later, Cheng took part in the peasant uprising at the end of Sui Dynasty, became the "devil in the world" in Wagangzhai and became the founding father of the Tang Dynasty. After his success, he still can't forget his early career of selling cakes, so he strongly recommends this snack. "Jinhua Shortcake" is famous for its founder's reputation. Later generations praised the "Jinhua Shortcake" and said, "There are several shortcakes in the world, and Jinhua Shortcake is the best." No exaggeration.
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Jinhua shortbread has a long history. According to legend, Cheng, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, once opened a pastry shop in Jinhua, and was the founder of the pastry industry. Handed down from generation to generation, it became more and more famous and became a famous traditional specialty.
Jinhua shortcake is made of white flour, dried potherb, fat, sesame, vegetable oil, maltose, etc. After rolling, stuffing and baking, a crisp cake as big as a crab shell is made. Golden on both sides, covered with sesame seeds and stuffed with dried vegetables and meat in the middle. There are 10 layers above and below, and each layer is as thin as paper. Chansons shortbread is delicious. Imported crispy, it melts when wet, and even people who have lost their teeth have its taste; Shortbread also shows its unique charm with its rich old fragrance and salty aftertaste, which strongly attracts customers. There is a legend of Li Bai's "smelling incense and dismounting".
Jinhua shortcake is easy to carry and is an ideal dry spot for travelers. It is said that since the Tang Dynasty, people in Jinhua have been taking shortbread as dry food when they go out for business and try to eat. Nowadays, travelers who come to Jinhua like to buy some bamboo slips to take back to relatives and friends, or as a light meal on the way. At present, there are pastry shops in urban and rural areas of Jinhua, which make all kinds of cakes.
Name of the dish: Jinhua shortcake
Features: crispy inside and outside, with meat inside and vegetables outside, oily but not greasy, fresh and delicious.
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Crispy inside and outside, with meat inside and vegetables outside, oily but not greasy, fresh and delicious, not easy to get wet and resistant to storage, it is a traditional cake with unique flavor. Scholars in ancient times took exams and traveled today, and they all liked it as a snack. Jinhua shortcake is made of white flour, dried potherb mustard, fat, vegetable oil, sesame and caramel, and baked in a pottery oven and charcoal.
According to records, Jinhua shortbread was first seen in the book Zhong written by Wu, a native of Pujiang, Wuzhou, Southern Song Dynasty. The shortbread he said contains honey, which is slightly different from today's dried vegetables and meat stuffing.
Jinhua shortbread has developed to 2 1 century, and through continuous technical improvement, it has successfully developed ham shortbread, sweet shortbread, spicy shortbread and other varieties. The charcoal baking was changed to far-infrared oven baking, and non-toxic polyethylene bags were used instead of paper packaging.