Huangshan baklava, also known as "crab shell yellow baklava", "rescue baklava", "imperial seal baklava", is a traditional Chinese food in Huizhou, Anhui Province, prevalent in the ancient Huizhou area and some surrounding areas. It is popular in the ancient Huizhou area and some neighboring areas. It is made of top quality fine flour, net fat meat, Meiganlai, sesame seeds, fine salt, vegetable oil and other handmade leather and stuffing respectively, and is made through more than 10 procedures, such as soaking, kneading, rolling, picking, skin making, stuffing, closing, rolling, brushing, spreading and baking, etc. Its baking is carried out in a special furnace, with charcoal burned inside, and the biscuit blanks are pasted onto the inner wall of the furnace, and are baked, simmered, and retired from the furnace fire and baked, and then and then made for a few hours. It is made after several hours of baking. After baking over charcoal fire, the shape is like the back shell of a crab, and the color is like crab roe, so it gets this name. Its baklava layer more and thin, thick shape, flavor, sweet, spicy, crispy, crisp. Ye's words as evidence: thin as the autumn moon, the shape of the full moon, landing beads scattered jade, the mouth aftertaste.
The traditional Huangshan baklava is baked over charcoal, now with the growth of sales and the purchase of advanced machines. Most of the Huangshan baklava is now made using machines such as ovens and then sealed technology for easy sales and take away. The shelf life is 15 to 30 days at room temperature.
Because of the long baking time, most of the water in the cake evaporated, conducive to storage, even if damp, after baking is still crispy and fragrant as before, but also to carry the hungry. And because of the white flour rubbing crisp, so that the crust layered thin as paper, to the baked fluffy and oily and not greasy.
"Save the driver baklava" name from: according to legend, in 1357, Zhu Yuanzhang garrisoned in Shenan over the boat mountain (the main peak of the shelves
boat tip), this is the junction of the three counties, the history of the Ming Church of the Chen Shuozhen and the Fang La revolt, there is a certain basis for religious beliefs. Fuxi, Nuwa, Shennong's holy land, belonging to the ancient Huizhou, "three days are" one of the whole mountain is just like a natural mantle white tower, the mother of China's flower - yellow flower - Fuxi culture to open up the mountain, by the North and South Dynasties, Vimalayan Zen ancestor of the master (Xiexi) masters to open up the mountain faction, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, the establishment of the immovable Ru Lai - shelves boat tip, pharmacist Rulai - Umbrella Tip as the center, a thousand feet of walls, Saga, 36 stone gates, surrounded by iron fence, the edge of the seven gold mountains, the Sumeru, Snow Mountain, Meizhen Oyuta, Mahamudra Oyuta, Fragrant Mountain, the Black Mountain, Tieweishan, the Great Tieweishan, the Heavenly Palace Dragon Palace, the seven peaks of the thirty-six heavenly gates into the garden-shaped surrounded by the East, the two great light of the Buddha: Aksobhya's Wonderful Joyful World and the Medicine Master Buddha's Pure Glazed World - overboard the ship mountain, the "mighty god of the Buddha, so that all the precious covers into one cover. "The Buddha's mighty power has caused all the precious lids to form a single lid that covers the three thousand great worlds. The Buddha's mighty power caused all the treasures to form a single cover that covered the three thousand worlds, and all the worlds, their vastness and length, appeared in it. Ship-covering Mountain hides the meaning of the Buddha's light, and the tip of the ship hides the sun and moon's precious flames, and there is a natural scenery here: "The stone gate is not locked at nine times, and the heavenly gate is not closed at night," which hides the religious idea of "worshiping the sun at dawn and the moon at sunset," so the pioneers of this place made Top Valley Fangfang tea (the originator of China's flat tea) and like the moon like the sun's baklava, the same hidden meaning of the sun and the moon, Zhu Yuanzhang here as a base (Wu Han writes Zhejiang West Ming religion of the treasury of the great Ming Taizu) secret development of the Ming religious for the holy warriors, to complete his hegemony of a solid foundation, and this baklava is the piece of this deep holy land of the Ming generals and disciples of vegetarian food in a product suitable for marching and fighting as a dry rations. Zhu Yuanzhang could only eat such food at that time, and he himself was a farmer, eating full of flavor. After claiming the title of emperor, did not forget that this holy land of such a heavenly creature, protect the country to save the emperor with merit, it was enshrined as the rescue of burnt cake.
The origin of the "imperial seal baklava": according to legend, the first time Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, by the Qing Dynasty, the famous "eight general merchants of the two Huai" the first, known as "the cloth to make friends with the son of God! "Jiang Chun, a Huizhou man, undertook all the supplies and planned the reception, which was called "Jiang Chun's Grand Reception". "Jiang Chun big drive" of the first tea is composed of Huizhou class by Jiang Chun's home kitchen team according to his elaborate design and collective development of the development of the baklava, the outer layer of crispy, moist and fresh aroma, chewing on the aroma of delicious, so that the boat and horses of the Qianlong feel physically and mentally relieved, the spirit of the doubled, and was pleased to give the name of the Royal seal baklava ", the Imperial seal baklava", the Imperial seal baklava, the Imperial seal baklava, the Emperor of China, the Emperor of China. Imperial seal baklava", implying that the degree of Qianlong's love for the baklava is comparable to the accompanying seal of the emperor, to give the highest praise. Crispy outer layer, moist and fragrant inside, chewing the flavor, is the traditional flavor of the Huizhou region snacks.