Names of eight different cakes
The big eight pieces are: 1. Fanmao Cake, 2. Big Roll Crispy, 3. Big Oil Cake, 4. Butterfly Paper, 5. Picture Crispy, 6. Chicken Oil Cake, 7. Zhuangyuan Cake, 8. Seven-star Code.
The small eight pieces are one size smaller than the big eight pieces: one, fruit pie, two, small roll crisp, three, Momo crisp, four, chicken oil cake, five, small screw crisp, six, salty candied fruit, seven, jujube flower, eight, pit face. The last four are most popular with children. Especially jujube flowers, twisted into petals with jujube paste, are very beautiful.
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In the old days, Beijingers should bring gifts when visiting relatives and friends, and pay attention to giving "eight Beijing pieces", that is, "big eight pieces" and "small eight pieces". This was originally an essential gift and decoration for the wedding and funeral ceremony and daily life of the royal family in Qing Hu, and later the formula was spread to the people from the imperial kitchen. Its main components are refined white flour, sugar, lard, honey and various fruit seeds. The so-called "eight pieces", that is, eight kinds of snacks, generally have sesame cakes, jujube flowers, rolled crisp, and some are engraved with different words such as blessing, fortune, longevity and happiness. There are round, peach, square, etc., and they are packed in a rectangular cardboard box. "Small eight pieces" are in duplicate, and sixteen pieces are packed in a paper box. In the past, when my daughter went back to her mother's house and gave a New Year greeting to her elders, I had to go to the pastry shop to buy a box of eight big pieces and carry them in my hand, which was generous and beautiful.