Proper fruit, the fruit of Qixi, is a traditional cake of Han nationality in Shanghai, and it is the festival food of Qixi. It is very distinctive, with sesame as the main ingredient and cooking skills as the mainstay. Below, let's take a look at the practice of proper fruit on Tanabata, and welcome your reference.

The practice of proper fruit on Tanabata

Raw materials: 500g flour, 220g warm water, 5g milk powder 1 5g sugar, 50g yeast1spoon.

Practice:

1, dissolve yeast in warm water, pour the yeast water into the flour mixed with milk powder and sugar for many times, and knead it into uniform dough;

2. Cover the kneaded dough with plastic wrap and wake it for one hour at room temperature. Take out the dough and knead it evenly by hand. The longer the dough is kneaded, the more delicious the finished product is and the whiter the color is.

3. Cut a piece of the kneaded dough, knead it into long strips, break it into small doses according to the size of the model, put the small pieces into the clips, press them with your fingers, and cut off the extra noodles with scissors;

4. Finally, knock it out hard, and a row of small cakes will be ready. Cover it with a dry cloth and wake it for a quarter of an hour. Preheat it in the oven 185 degrees for ten minutes.

5, and then use the mold to knock out other shapes of smart cakes, also put them in the oven to bake and take them out, and then they can be eaten after cooling.

Several key points of making smart cakes:

1, first of all, the dough must be hard. If it is not hard, the card mold will be difficult to handle, and the soft dough will stick up and cannot be knocked out. When adding milk powder and sugar to the dough, the cakes made are better, and you can beat an egg if you like, but in summer, it is not easy to keep the eggs.

2. Traditional smart cakes are baked in a special cauldron, but the pot in our house will be burnt if we make smart cakes carelessly, so I used a tricky method. The oven is easy to master the temperature and time, so it is time-saving and labor-saving.

3. Cooked cookies must be dried naturally, and they can only be sealed and preserved when they are completely cool. If they are just for viewing, they can be colored, strung together, hung up and dried naturally. My family made them before, and after drying, they were left there for a year without any damage.

Why do you eat proper fruit on Tanabata?

There are three legends about why we eat proper fruit on Tanabata:

1, according to legend, a long time ago, there was a girl named Xiao Wei. She was very sympathetic to the sad love between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, so every year on Tanabata night, Xiao Wei would make a delicate snack and burn incense to offer sacrifices, hoping that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet in the sky. The local landowner was moved by his small sincerity and reported the matter to heaven. The Jade Emperor couldn't forgive the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid because of heaven's rules, but he was very grateful to the small mind, so he made the old man pull strings and promoted a small and happy marriage. Since then, Xiao Xiao and Mr. Right have been together for a lifetime, and the husband and wife have never left, and they are harmonious and beautiful, which is envied by everyone. Many girls also learn from Xiao Xiao, and make snacks with different characters every year on Tanabata to pray for a happy marriage and a happy life. This kind of snack is also called "proper fruit" and has been passed down to this day.

2. Making cakes on Tanabata is like fingers and tongues, and it is called "clever eating". Women and children throw colorful threads through the "clever eating" and throw them at the back of the house, which means that the magpie will take the title to bridge the bridge, and the cowherd and the weaver girl will meet each other across the Milky Way at night.

3. proper fruit is the tears shed by the seven fairies. If you put it on the babies, the girls will be clever and more beautiful.

What is proper fruit?

Proper fruit, also known as "Qiqiao Fruit", is a kind of fried snack with many varieties. Its main raw materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey. It is called "smile" and "fruit pattern" in Tokyo Dream of China Record. Because "Qiao" and "Bridge" are homophonic, people think that eating proper fruit on July 7th can not only help the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge, but also realize their wishes through "Qiao" (Bridge).

There were many varieties of proper fruit in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the main raw materials were oil, flour, sugar and honey. The dough is put into a wooden mold (also called a dumpling) with scissors, pears, tomatoes, melons, pomegranates, apples, chickens, piglets, lions, goldfish, frogs, crabs, shrimps and other flower-shaped patterns, and the shaped cookies are fried or baked. Some proper fruit were also spotted with seven colors, some with red dots, strung in strings with long lines, and hung on the walls with sand fruit or cloth at the tail end as decorations and snacks, and some were strung in a ring for fun among children's napes. According to legend, at night in Chinese Valentine's Day, women and children threw proper fruit on the back of the house, and the magpie took the title to bridge the bridge, so that the cowherd and the weaver girl could meet at night across the Milky Way.

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