Eight big pieces
Also known as northern cakes, represented by Beijing area. Beijing-style cakes, with a long history, various categories and different tastes, are characterized by heavy oil and light sugar, softness, pure sweetness and saltiness. Representative varieties include Beijing Bakuai, red and white moon cakes and so on. Among them, Beijing eight tablets are divided into big eight tablets, small eight tablets and refined eight tablets. Eight pieces are made of eight kinds of fillings, such as hawthorn, rose, green plum, white sugar, red bean paste, jujube paste, salt and pepper, raisins, etc. , wrapped in edible oil noodles, carefully baked to make various patterns of impressions. Shapes are kidney-shaped, drum-shaped, bergamot-shaped, bat-shaped, peach-shaped and pomegranate-shaped. Crispy and delicious, with pure fragrance. Specially made eight pieces, the fine layer is even, the filling is soft and sandy, and the fruit is pure and thick. There are also eight kinds of shapes, such as three immortals, silver ingots, sweet-scented osmanthus, happiness, auspiciousness, longevity and love of peaches, which are the fine products in Beijing-style cakes.
Eight small pieces
In the old days, Beijingers should bring gifts when visiting relatives and friends, and pay attention to giving "eight Beijing pieces", namely "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 the Qing Dynasty. Later, the formula was spread from the royal chef to the people. Its main ingredients 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 cakes, and some are engraved with different words such as blessing, luck, longevity and happiness. There are round, peach, square and so on. They are packed in a rectangular cardboard box. "Little People" is in duplicate, and sixteen pieces are packed in a carton. In the past, when my daughter went back to her parents' home to pay a New Year call to her elders, I always went to the pastry shop to buy a box of eight big ones in my hand, which was generous and beautiful.
The big eight pieces are generally eight pieces a catty, and the small eight pieces are generally eight pieces a catty.
Eight big pieces and eight small pieces. A catty of eight different kinds of cakes is called "Daba", which is generally the most suitable for giving gifts. Small eight pieces are also eight varieties, and sixteen small pieces are divided into one catty. As a gift, eight pieces are the main ones, with high quality. The names of eight different cakes are as follows: 1. Rice cat cake, 2. Big roll of cake, 3. Big cake, 4. Butterfly paper, 5. Picture cake, 6. Chicken oil cake, 7. Zhuangyuan cake, 8. Seven stars, Dianzi. The small eight pieces are one size smaller than the big eight pieces: one, fruit pie, two, small roll crisp, three, DOG crisp, four, chicken oil cake, five, small screw crisp, six, salted preserves, seven, jujube flowers, eight, pit noodles. The last four are the most popular among children. Especially jujube flowers, twisted into petals with jujube paste, are very beautiful.
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The shape of dim sum (pastry technology)
China's food culture has a long history. China dim sum, as a part of catering in China, has experienced the long-term practice of working people in China, especially the inheritance and development of dim sum chefs. There are more and more kinds of dim sum, including steamed stuffed bun, jiaozi, cake, meatballs, rolls, cakes, crisp strips, frozen rice and porridge. After thousands of years of creation by pastry chefs, its basic forms are colorful and lifelike, such as geometric, pictographic and natural shapes.
Baked food is imported from the west. Although they are convenient to eat and nutritious, they are still slightly inferior to China dim sum in shape. And we China producers who are engaged in baked goods, why can't we learn from the essence of our country in this respect? The following is an article extracted by our editor in Pastry Technology for baking colleagues to share.
1. The shape of snacks
1. Packaging category
Bread mainly refers to all kinds of steamed bread, which belongs to fermented dough. There are many kinds of patterns, which are divided into big bags and small bags according to the degree of fermentation. According to the shape, it is divided into: Sanding steamed buns, steamed buns and other pleated bags; Fancy bags, such as: Shoutao bag, goldfish bag, etc. Seamless packaging, such as sugar packaging and crystal packaging.
2. jiaozi
Jiaozi is an important form of cakes in China. Its shapes are: wooden fish, such as jiaozi and wonton; Crescent-shaped, such as steamed dumplings, fried dumpling, jiaozi, etc. Comb back shape, such as shrimp dumplings; The horn is shaped like a pot sticker; The bird's head is shaped like a small wonton; There are other pictographic varieties, such as fancy steamed dumplings. According to its materials, there are: dumplings, such as dumplings, steamed dumplings, pot stickers; Oily jiaozi, such as curry crisp jiaozi, eyebrow jiaozi, etc. ; Others are shrimp dumplings with noodles, steamed dumplings with corn flour, red and white jiaozi with rice flour, etc.
3. Cake
Cake is mainly made of rice, flour and eggs. Rice flour cakes include: muffins, such as five-color small round muffins and red bean lard muffins; Thick cakes, such as lard sugar rice cakes, rose honey cakes, etc. Fermented cakes, such as Lunjiao cakes and cotton cakes. Bread cakes include Melaleuca oil cakes and bee candy cakes. Cakes include clear cakes and fancy cakes. There are also cakes made of fruits, dried fruits, miscellaneous grains and vegetables, such as yam cakes, water chestnut cakes, chestnut cakes and peanut cakes.
Step 4: group
Cake balls are usually called cake balls. Generally, rice flour is the main raw material, mostly spherical. Varieties are: dough balls, such as jiaozi and pigeon balls; Cooked jiaozi, such as double stuffing jiaozi. There are other varieties such as dumpling stuffing and hemp balls.
5. Volume category
Wide range of materials, variety. Varieties are: yeast rolls, which can be divided into flower rolls, such as sixi rolls, butterfly rolls and chrysanthemum rolls. Folding rolls, such as pig's paw rolls and lotus leaf rolls; Cut rolls, such as silver rolls and shredded chicken rolls. Rice (powder) rolls, such as: Ruyi sesame cold rolls, etc. Cake roll, if you roll the cake with sauce, etc. Crispy rolls, such as those made of olives. Cake rolls, such as sesame milk rolls. There are other special varieties such as spring rolls.
6. Cake
Cake is one of the varieties with a long history in China. According to the different skins, it can be divided into: water cakes, such as pancakes and clear oil cakes; Yeast cakes, such as Huangqiao sesame cakes and distiller's grains cakes; Shortcakes, such as onion shortcakes and Soviet-style moon cakes; Others include fried rice cakes made of rice noodles, fried dumpling made of egg noodles, water chestnut cakes made of fruits and vegetables, sweet-scented osmanthus millet cakes and so on.
7.potato chips
Potato chips are mostly water-oil cakes. According to the way of expression, there are: bright crisp, such as mandarin duck butter, mysterious crisp, lotus root crisp and so on; Dark cakes, such as double sesame cakes; Semi-dark crisp, such as apple crisp. There are other kinds of mixed crisp, such as peach crisp, lotus paste and manna crisp.
8. Types
Stripes mainly refer to the long strips of pasta such as noodles and rice noodles. Noodles include: sauce noodles, such as Dandan Noodles, squeezed sauce noodles, noodles with gravy, etc. Noodle soup, such as clear noodle soup, colorful noodle soup, etc. Fried noodles, such as vegetarian fried noodles, Yifu noodles, etc. ; Other varieties include cold noodles, braised noodles and Huimian Noodles. Yunnan's fried dough sticks and cross-bridge rice noodles also belong to strip products.
9. Rice
Rice is the staple food of China people, especially southerners. Can be divided into ordinary rice and fancy rice. Ordinary rice can be divided into steamed rice and braised rice, while fancy rice can be divided into fried rice, covered rice, vegetable rice and eight-treasure rice.
10.porridge
Porridge is also one of the staple foods of the broad masses of people in China, which is divided into ordinary porridge and fancy porridge. Ordinary porridge is divided into boiled porridge and braised porridge. Fancy porridge can be divided into sweet porridge, such as mung bean porridge and Laba porridge. Salty porridge, such as fish porridge, preserved egg porridge, etc.
1 1. Frozen
Frozen varieties are seasonal in summer, mainly sweets, such as watermelon jelly and almond tofu.
12. Other categories
In addition to the above-mentioned pastry forms, there are some common varieties such as steamed bread, twist, zongzi and steamed dumplings, which are also deeply loved by people.