I want to take you to taste Huizhou snacks with a long history.

Among Dongjiang dishes represented by Huizhou, "Three Treasures of Huizhou" has long been familiar. In addition, there are many unique folk snacks in Huizhou, such as "A Tiao Jiao", "De Xiang" and "Ai Jiao", which have a long history but are little known. Now, with the good opportunity of the food carnival, our reporter will take you to visit Huizhou snacks.

inverse snack

also known as kneading snack, inverse snack is a Huizhou-style snack, which is rare in other places. It's not easy to find a counter. I finally found one, but I was told that it had already been sold out. Please come early tomorrow. The next day, the reporter deliberately got up early and finally saw the true face of Lushan Mountain. Its practice is to take glutinous rice flour and steam it, and then wrap it with white sugar and sesame seeds to make it into a soft round shape. Take a bite, and your mouth is full of sesame and glutinous rice.

In the past, reverse glutinous rice was a traditional festival food in Huizhou, and it was originally used as a sacrifice for the ox gods in the people's homes. Huizhou proverb "October Dynasty, making a pile of Lu Lu Shao" is a portrayal of Huizhou folk "October Dynasty" (a traditional folk festival). "October Dynasty" is a traditional festival of offering sacrifices to cattle in Huizhou. It is recorded in Huizhou Annals: "In October Dynasty, the city made flour food to recommend ancestors, and the countryside hung horns with flour food to repay their labor." In fact, the "Zandui" and "Fenshi" referred to in it are the same kind of food, that is, the traditional flavor food glutinous rice Zanba in Huizhou, which is called "reverse Zan" in Huizhou.

Aijiao

is also called pink fruit, which means "eating pink fruit in winter". Pink fruit is Aijiao, which is a unique winter custom in Huizhou.

the main raw materials for making mugwort are mugwort and rice flour. Making "Ai" is the most important step: first, take local wild Artemisia argyi, boil it with water, and then grind it into a velvet shape with a bamboo basket to make it into edible Ai. After that, mixed rice flour is made into vermicelli, and salty and sweet ingredients are used as stuffing and wrapped into horns. Most of the Artemisia argyi used in Huizhou in winter is salty, and the traditional materials are mostly shredded radish, lard residue, shrimp head, spiced powder, etc., which can be eaten after steaming. Nowadays, as a unique Huizhou bag, Aijiao appears on the dining tables of large and small hotels.

The traditional selling form of sand cakes is very unique. Sellers often sell them along the street with big boards stacked high on their heads. When someone buys it, they put down the partition, uncover the gauze, scoop up pieces of sand cakes with an iron shovel, and sell out one layer after another until they are all sold out.

The making method of sand cake is different from the "water-mixed rice flour molding and steaming method" of ordinary cakes. It adopts a unique "powder-rubbing and sieving method", then it is laid flat in a wooden partition with gauze and steamed, and then cut into 2-inch square squares.

water

water, also called "seven floors", is also found in some other places in Guangdong. Huizhou is different from other places in that it is mainly used as a special food for the "June 6th Sun Birthday". Huizhou folk songs sing: "June 6th, drying clothes, steaming water and lighting candles". On that day, people took their winter clothes and quilts out of the house for outdoor exposure early, then steamed seven layers of water, lit red candles and worshipped the sun.

The water is made of common sticky rice flour paste, with oil, salt, shrimp, shredded radish, spiced powder, meat or lard residue. Take a big round basin, first spread a layer of gouache, then steam the meat, and then steam the second layer until the seventh layer.

The reporter can only imagine what the seventh floor looks like. In the street, the water that has been cut into blocks is also very attractive. Pieces of white and tender water, after frying, can't help but make people covet.

a trip is called

Just hearing this name makes people think about it. In Huizhou dialect, grandma is called "A trip", which is expected to be meaningful. It is estimated that the name A trip has something to do with grandma. It is said that there was a food called "A Tripe" before the Qing Dynasty.

A-Tiao is actually a fried product, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, with radish fragrance but not greasy, fragrant and delicious, which is very attractive. When eating, it is often dipped in balsamic vinegar, which is extremely fragrant.

When reporters were searching for the name A Tripping in the streets and alleys, they asked about the origin of this name. Almost no one could tell. Many bosses who made A Tripping only knew that it had a long history. It's not clear whether even the old woman who lost her teeth was attracted by the aroma when she was fried, so she was called "A Tripping".

gathered cakes

gathered cakes are more commonly used etiquette food than sand cakes. According to Huizhou customs, weddings, birthdays and other happy events should be steamed with red cakes, while funerals should be steamed with white cakes.

In the production, glutinous rice with four parts and sticky rice with six parts are generally used to gather cakes, which is called "four broken six" in the jargon. Then mix well with water, add cake seeds (fermented products), and then make them into cakes and steam them. The cake is regarded as a special etiquette food. Except for etiquette, it is rare to buy and sell goods, which is very different from the sand cake.

Hair cake

Because its finished product is often mixed with safflower powder and has a large volume, it is also called red hair cake. Red hair cake takes its word "hair" and is widely used in happy events. In Huizhou, birthday, birth, marriage and other customs are quite particular about it. Generally, the big cake is cut into small pieces, or as a gift for greeting guests and relatives, or distributed to neighbors. Nowadays, residents in the city and suburban farmers are still very particular about it. Generally, pure sticky rice, sugar, baking powder or cake seeds are used to make steamed cakes, which are steamed in a large container. If the steamed cakes are very big, they will especially make the owner happy.

Big Cage

People in the north call it "rice cake", while Hakkas call it "sweet". "Big Cage" is a special name among Huizhou people. Because Chinese New Year is mostly used for offering sacrifices to gods, ancestors and stoves, it is regarded as sacrificial food for Chinese New Year. The materials used in the big cage are slightly different from those of the rice cakes in the north, but similar to the sweetness of Hakka, all of which are based on glutinous rice flour. Add brown sugar, borneol sugar, white sugar or sand sugar according to everyone's needs, and add rice flour according to the degree of hardness. The big cage is the food for the Spring Festival. It is a folk custom to stick a piece of Zhang Xiaohong paper on the steamed big cage as a sacrifice or give it to relatives and friends.