Huoshao is a unique pastry snack in Xiaoyi County, Shanxi Province. Xiaoyi fire can be divided into salty fire, sugar fire and vegetable fire.

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Oil cake is also a snack with filial piety. In particular, Xiaoyi's fried bean cakes and oil cakes are delicious, soft and chewy, sweet but not greasy. Steamed cake noodles are the key to making oil cakes. When steaming, it should be done in one go, and it can't be raw; To master the hardness of noodles, you can't pinch them when they are soft, and lose their flavor when they are hard. There are two kinds of xiaoyi oil cakes: stuffing cakes and jujube slices cakes. The case cake is sliced and fried, called jujube cake. Fermented cakes can be divided into sugar stuffing and jujube bean stuffing.

Shi Gan cake

Xiaoyi's Shi Gan cake has a unique flavor. Shi Gan cake has been handed down from generation to generation, and it is a specialty of rural and urban women in Xiaoyi. During festivals, most families will make some stone cakes. Now there are stalls selling Shi Gan cakes in the city. Xiaoyi people give dried stone cakes as gifts to relatives and friends, which is also one of the gifts for the elderly's birthdays and children's full moons. Raw materials include white flour, sesame oil, salt and alkali, yeast and so on. The tool is stone. Stones should be even in size, not bigger than the thumb. Dry stone cake is a nutritious and healthy food, which is crisp to chew and easy to digest. Everyone loves it, suitable for men, women and children.

Xiaoyi persimmon

Xiaoyi persimmon is a chestnut plant of Fagaceae, which is one of the main cultivated varieties of more than ten kinds of edible chestnuts in the world and the earliest economic tree species cultivated and utilized in China. The production method of persimmon in Xiaoyi county: peel the persimmon first, then put it in the sun, knead it repeatedly after softening, continue to dry, and collect it in a vat after repeated times. The next spring, you can open the jar and eat. Features: persimmon core is small, large, oily, white and tender, and has a soft aftertaste. Persimmons in Xiaoyi Bay are big, frosty, sweet and soft, with few stones or no seeds. They are known as "jujube pulp color and shredded beef" and are the best among dried and fresh fruits.