Therefore, the early eight pieces were imperial meals, and later they were introduced to the people. In the past, when my daughter went back to her mother's house and gave a New Year greeting to her elders, I had to go to the pastry shop to buy a box of eight big pieces and carry them in my hand, which was generous and beautiful. Tianjin, however, is deeply influenced by Beijing-style cakes due to historical reasons. Although it is self-contained through continuous improvement, it can still find traces of the roots of the imperial city. Tianjin's "Tianjin Eight Pieces" Tianjin's eight pieces are snacks made of eight kinds of stuffing, such as hawthorn, rose, green plum, sugar, red bean paste, jujube paste, salt and pepper, and raisins, with oil, water and flour as skins, stuffed with leather bags and baked, among which there are big eight pieces and small eight pieces.
The big eight pieces are jujube flowers, blessing characters, Lu characters, longevity characters, happy characters, roll cakes, walnut cakes and wax cakes, and the small eight pieces are jujube recipes, almond cakes, little persimmon, Momo, apricot, pomegranate, apple and walnut. Eight pieces are divided into big eight pieces and small eight pieces. The big eight pieces are generally one catty of eight pieces, and the small eight pieces are generally one catty of eight pieces. The shapes are kidney-shaped, round drum-shaped, bergamot-shaped, bat-shaped, peach-shaped, pomegranate-shaped and so on. It is crisp and palatable, with pure fragrance.
Specially made of eight pieces, the fine layer is even, the stuffing is soft and sandy, and the fruit material is pure and thick. There are also eight patterns in appearance, such as three immortals, silver ingots, sweet-scented osmanthus, happiness, wealth, longevity and peach-loving. With the continuous improvement, some new varieties have also joined the ranks of "Eight Pieces" and the classification is more detailed: big eight pieces: fluffy cake, big roll cake, big oil cake, butterfly roll, bat roll cake, chicken oil cake, zhuangyuan cake and seven-star cake: fruit pie, small roll cake, Momo roll cake, pit face, small snail roll cake, salted egg, jujube flower and chicken oil cake.
Look, there are so many kinds, I can't remember them at all, so people simply don't remember them. They sell them by the box, and each box includes all of them, collectively referred to as "eight pieces". If you want to buy them individually, you can just order them through the glass, take a bag of paper when you're done, tie the cowhide rope, pay the money, leave, and be next.