Sichuanese like spicy food, but they don't eat it all at once. Imagine eating spicy food three times a day, which will greatly stimulate our stomach. In our daily life, after eating the staple food, we always leave some places for dessert to relieve the greasy feeling brought by dinner. Sichuanese love desserts, and trough cakes are one of them. Cake, also known as cake, is a small cake made of eggs, flour and sugar. It is mainly baked with charcoal fire, and the taste is very fireworks. Although this is just an ordinary cake, its history is not short. As early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was still a court cake and was deeply loved by dignitaries.
In fact, the cake is now everywhere, simple and affordable. However, in order to save time, most merchants basically bake in the oven, and few people are still making cakes in the traditional way.
Uncle Chuan only sells cakes for 30 years, with a daily limit of 20 pots.
Today I'm going to introduce this small shop selling cakes, which was opened by an uncle. Three generations of his family have been cooking cakes, always using the ancient method. A pot cover with several hundred kilograms of hot charcoal fire is hung on the beam of the house, and then the materials for making the cake are poured into the mold, and the pot cover with charcoal fire on it is manually moved to cook the ingredients below. This method not only tests the ingenious use of the temperature of charcoal fire by the producers, but also tests them. This uncle has been cooking cakes for 30 years now, and the daily limit is 20 pots, mainly because the charcoal fire on the lid can only bake 20 pots of cakes. Asked if anyone around my uncle baked the cake in this primitive way, my uncle shook his head and said that only their family still used it. Others were too tired, the production speed was slow, and few finished products came out. Almost all the people who come to uncle's house to buy mooncakes are regular customers, and they are basically bought in bags. Both old people and children like eating very much. Some people even came from Hunan and other places to eat cakes made by ancient methods.
With the development of the times, many complicated cooking techniques are gradually replaced by high technology, which saves time and effort and brings great convenience to people's lives. However, everything has advantages and disadvantages. Although high technology is very helpful to our life, the taste of food always lacks the smell of fireworks and looks dull. For uncle, this ancient craft of making cakes is his pride, and it is also a craft he wants to pass on all the time. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of the older generation, which is more meaningful than many high technologies now.
A kilo of cake 18 yuan is affordable and delicious.
Uncle's cookie is also very cheap, selling at 18 yuan per catty. Trough cake is a kind of cake, and its weight is not big. 18 yuan can buy a big bag. Moreover, uncle didn't add a drop of water when he made this cake, only three ingredients: flour, eggs and sugar. The raw materials are clean, the taste is unique, it has a strong egg flavor, and it is crisp outside and soft inside, which can be eaten by the elderly and children. It's healthier than those expensive cakes outside. Anyone who has eaten the cake made by uncle knows that although it tastes ordinary on the whole, there is a magic that people can't help but keep eating it.
In fact, many people have advised this uncle to make bad cakes in another way. Compared with this ancient method, it is time-consuming and laborious, with few finished products and less money. But uncle has always stressed that he did this job not to make money, but to prevent his parents' skills from being lost. Sometimes, compared with some desserts in big hotels, some simple and ordinary foods in life can comfort people more and make people have a childhood memory.
Uncle's shop is really a bit remote for many people who want to eat cakes. Basically, they will buy it once for a long time, so most people will choose to make it at home to satisfy their desires. Although it is not as delicious as the ancient method, it can at least satisfy people's stomachs in a short time. Now, let's take a look at the simple way to make a cake at home!
Name of the dish: Cao Zi Gao
Ingredients: eggs, corn oil, sugar, honey, low-gluten flour, black sesame.
Specific steps:
1. Beat the eggs into a bowl, add appropriate amount of sugar, and then beat them with electric egg beater until they are white. If there is no electric egg beater at home, it can be delivered manually, but it is time-consuming and laborious. If you are afraid of being tired, you might as well buy an electric price comparison.
2. Add a proper amount of honey to the beaten egg liquid, and then beat it with electric egg beater high-speed until it is textured. If you don't know what it is, you can write eight words on the egg liquid, or these eight words don't disappear immediately.
3. Then add the low-gluten flour three times. Every time you add low-gluten flour, you need to stir it evenly with a scraper. Be careful not to draw circles as usual, but to stir from bottom to top to avoid defoaming.
4. Pour the prepared corn oil into the batter twice.
5. Put the prepared batter into the mold, add a proper amount of black sesame seeds, and then bake in the oven 130 degrees for about 3 minutes.
Evaluation:
Generally speaking, the Sichuan uncle trough cake made by the ancient method is clean, soft, dense in taste, instant in the mouth, and can't be stopped once eaten, and the price is also very affordable. There is a big bag 18 yuan a kilo. The only drawback is that this uncle only cooks 20 pots a day, and he can't buy them if he comes late.