Traveling all over Hebei, where is the best baked wheat cake?

I am a glutton, and I like delicious food from all over the world. You can taste it wherever you go, a typical "foodie".

I think it is wise and open to spend money on mouths.

Of course, I don't spend money indiscriminately, I earn a limited amount, I spend money carefully, I taste famous food, and I focus on special products. People in Hebei like pasta, and they have tasted many baked wheat cakes in recent years. Let's talk about sesame cakes again.

Sesame cake is the most common and popular food in Hebei. It not only wraps the belly, but also carries folk stories, legends and other regional cultures.

The oldest legend belongs to Shijiazhuang cylinder furnace sesame seed cake.

It is said that it has a long history and is related to Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty. One man pushed history for two thousand years.

According to legend, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu was chased by Wang Mang to the mountains near Jingxing. Hungry and thirsty, he survived the disaster day by day with baked jars-oven biscuits and clear springs in mountain streams, and finally established the Eastern Han Dynasty. As a result, the jar stove sesame seed cake is well-known in Jingxing and Huolu areas of Shijiazhuang, which has been passed down from generation to generation and has become a hometown flavor that ordinary people are proud of.

As the name implies, sesame cakes are baked in jars. The stove is used to burn the jar, and at the same time, the smoothness, temperature and thickness of the jar are used. The baked sesame seed cake is not sticky or greasy, has a crisp and refreshing taste, contains no sugar, and does not add any additives. Nowadays, healthy food is advocated, and jar baked wheat cake is not high in grade from the perspective of food, but Xian Yi, old and young, can definitely be included in the health list.

Go south, Handan.

Look at the famous Sophora japonica cake in Handan.

Sophora japonica seed cake is a special snack in the ancient city of Handan. This kind of biscuit is very appetizing: round, dense lines, golden color, crisp outside and tender inside. When making cookies, add pepper, salt and sesame oil, and decorate the crust with sesame seeds. It tastes salty and refreshing, with endless aftertaste. After coming to Handan, watch the historical sites such as the cluster platform where King Wuling of Zhao is riding and shooting in a Hu suit, sit down and taste the crispy and salty taste of the old locust tree biscuits, while listening to the idioms and allusions told by the host all over the streets of the city, so as to ensure that you have a sense of crossing in an instant and sigh that the biscuits are delicious.

Speaking of Handan, you can't miss its subordinate county-Daming.

Anyone who has seen Water Margin knows the famous Daming Mansion. Despite the vicissitudes of life, today's famous houses condescend to lower their prices, but the long-standing food culture will still be revealed through even a flavor snack.

The name of the famous baked wheat cake is different. The other two people call it "sesame cake".

"Baked sesame seed cake" is popular because it looks ordinary, only to find that it tastes delicious and unique, and it is not hard, stiff or uncomfortable when it is cold. It is not only common in the street, but also elegant. In local restaurants and even friends' banquets, "burnt sesame cake" is always the last one to appear as the "finale".

Then Handan said Xingtai.

When I went to Xingtai that year, I once ate sesame seed cake in a restaurant. I heard that it was the famous Wujia sesame seed cake in the local area. Sesame cakes first appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is said to be closely related to the short and troubled Mr. Wu Dalang in Water Margin.

In my impression, Wuda in Shuihuli is originally from northwest Shandong, and there is still a distance from Xingtai, but it doesn't matter. What matters is whether the baked wheat cake is delicious or not. No one delves into folklore, and we believe everything we say. What's wrong with adding jokes while eating?

Although Mr. Wu's appearance and figure are not handsome enough, there is no problem with his character. The sesame seed cake stall he operated was also a leading enterprise in that year, and the materials used were definitely exquisite, and the production process was even more sloppy. Therefore, the name of sesame seed cake is Wu Dalang, but everyone can buy it, especially foreign guests. It is really a coup that only experts who are proficient in reverse thinking can come up with.

Wu's sesame seed cake was delicious that day, especially the crispy feeling just out of the pot. Even delicious food is so much. I'm glad you have such little luck in coming to Xingtai for dinner.

From south to north, now let's talk about Tangshan's most famous chess biscuit.

Chess and card biscuits, as the name implies, are the unique flavor food in Tangshan area, with the size of chess pieces and the shape of drums. Its characteristics are: first, there are fillings, all kinds of fillings, and second, the production process is exquisite, and the finished product is no less effective than refined cakes.

There are many kinds of fillings, mainly pork stuffing with bean paste. Besides refined powder, chicken oil and pork belly, there are sesame seeds, sugar, red bean paste and so on.

Chess biscuits also have their own legends, but it is too tortuous and bizarre to finish the whole story in one hour. Simply put, the earliest Chinese chess biscuits didn't have any fillings. It was a scholar who went to Beijing every day to take the exam in Qing Dynasty who was thirsty and passed by Feng Run. He complained to a shopkeeper, prompting the shopkeeper of baked wheat cakes to open his mind to reform and innovation and try to put red bean paste or meat stuffing in it. I don't know that listing is very popular. After many generations of continuous improvement, the chess cake has finally become a positive result. 20 19, and its production skills were selected into the List of the Fifth Batch of Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Projects in Tangshan City.

In addition, there are many biscuits with distinctive features and worth tasting all over Hebei, among which Zhangjiakou linseed oil biscuits have different styles;

Bashang specialty, brown sugar sesame cake with stomach warming function;

Sesame paste sesame seed cake specially prepared with mutton soup in Chengde Pingquan;

Wait, wait, wait.

Limited to space, I won't go into details one by one. To sum up: Hebei people make sesame cakes, each place has its own characteristics, and each store has its own unique ideas. Although this industry is not high-tech, it is far from the core technology, but it is the persistent pursuit of every practitioner to seriously consider the psychology of diners and make full use of the advantages of local resources, which is also the reason why Hebei biscuit industry is changing with each passing day and prospering.

Now let's talk about the traditional snack with the most Hebei characteristics, which is very popular in North China and even the whole country-donkey meat biscuits, which is also commonly known as donkey meat fire.

According to historical records, donkey meat fire originated in central Hebei in A.D. 1400, which can be divided into Baoding donkey meat fire and Hejian donkey meat fire. The method and taste are different. The most intuitive difference is that the donkey meat fire in Baoding is round, while the donkey meat fire in Hejian is rectangular.

The practice is to chop the pickled donkey meat, mix it with soup stock and put it into the freshly baked sesame seed cake. Sesame cakes are crisp and full of meat. Take a bite and leave the fragrance in your mouth. That's cool!

Sesame cakes with meat are delicious, so is braised pork. Stewed meat is a bit like jelly, made of starch and broth. Compared with donkey meat, braised pork tastes more delicate and is the best companion for donkey meat burning.

Nowadays, no matter where you go, shops selling donkey meat can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys. This famous food in Hebei has been completely integrated into the lives of ordinary people. Baoding has more than 30 well-known stores. Donkey meat burned in Xu Shui, a big county, has a 134 store with an address and telephone number. More vendors walked through the streets, iron pots and chopping boards, and there was a small stove. Hebei donkey meat fire, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, all over the country. Became the customer's favorite food!

Having said so much, my stomach is growling

In fact, it is Hebei, a land rich in natural products and outstanding in people, that breeds such a pleasant food culture, which makes us lucky enough to travel all over Zhao Yan and eat non-repetitive food.

The small sesame seed cake soothes the stomach, but it reflects the people's livelihood and taste pursuit of the whole society.