Names of ancient pastries

China's ancient times there are a variety of pastries.

There are eight major categories from the process, shortening class, mixed sugar class, pulp skin class, oven cake class, steamed cake class, pastry class, deep-fried class, other classes;

In China there are 12 schools of thought according to regional categorization: Beijing school, Tianjin school, Su school, Guangzhou school, Chao school, Ning school, Shanghai school, Sichuan school, Yang school, Dian school, Min school, Western-style pastry.

There are hundred flowers cake, mung bean cake, bean paste cake, red bean cake, begonia cake, osmanthus cake, fragrant cake, radish cake, jelly cake, oil cake, peach cake, wick cake, cloud cake, cake, pulling the cake, baked cake, big square cake, rice cake, lantern cake, deep-fried cake, lard cake, shrimp cake, thousand-layer cake, nine-layer cake, baked cake, Ting Sheng cake, red orange cake, hemp cake, Scholar's Cake, horseshoe cake, horse hoof cake, potato cake, corn cake, Sesame cake, corn cake, crystal cake, eight treasures cake, jade belt cake and so on.

1, nine-layer cake:

Also known as the nine cakes, cakes, cakes, cakes, etc., to take a long time, step by step the meaning of rising.

It is one of the traditional Chinese specialty cakes and snacks in coastal areas.

Ancient books say that the number of heaven and earth begins with one and ends with nine.

That nine is the highest number, nine to one, one is the largest number also means more than nine layers of cake name meaning multi-layer cake, multiple cake, so the folk known as nine layers of cake is actually a layer, nine or eleven layers, should be a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long time.

Nine-layer cake is a nine-color pastry, layer uniform and beautiful, creamy and sweet.

New Year's Eve, Qingming, Zhongyuan and Chongyang are known as the four major traditional Chinese festivals for ancestor worship.

Coastal areas, especially in Zhejiang and Fujian, every family will put on some pork, mutton, fruits and nine-layer cakes at this time of the year, one side is to carry out the filial piety of remembering ancestors, and the other side is to carry forward the righteousness of pushing oneself to help others, and be kind and charitable.

2, Scholar's Cake:

Scholar's Cake, one of the traditional Chinese cake snacks, is a famous specialty of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province.

Although there are differences in the production methods and flavors in different regions of China, all of them contain the meaning of blessing.

At the same time, Scholar's Cake is also one of the more rare snacks in Taiwan, because the shape of the Scholar's hat and called, because the name sounds quite auspicious, many candidates before the exams will buy and eat, with the blessing of meaning.

3, Lantern cake:

Lantern cake is a traditional specialty of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, Wenzhou, one of the ten famous snacks.

It is a deep-fried food with a long history, which can be traced back to the end of Yuan and the beginning of Ming Dynasty.

Generally, it is made of rice, soybeans ground into a thick paste, adding flour, wrapped in shredded radish as a filling, deep-fried.

4, horseshoe cake:

Horseshoe cake is a kind of Guangdong Province, Fuzhou, Fujian Province and southern Fujian region of the traditional dessert snacks.

It is said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty, and is steamed with sugar water mixed with water chestnut powder.

Water chestnut is also known as horseshoe in Cantonese, hence the name.

Its color is tea yellow, translucent, can be folded without cracking, pouting without stopping, soft, smooth, crisp, tough and both, the taste is very sweet.

The horseshoe cake is sweet and melts in your mouth.

5, crystal cake:

Beijing summer seasonal pastry snacks.

Crystal cake is crystal clear, white and lubricated, soft and chewy, sweet and refreshing.

The crystal cake is a famous product among the traditional cakes in Beijing.

Before the liberation of the best to do to Zilanzhai a southern store.

6, turnip cake:

Turnip cake is a traditional specialty of Fujian Minnan, Guangdong and other regions of the pastry.

It is made with Jai Lai Rice Vermicelli, also known as Re-mei Vermicelli, which is the best powder to use in Chinese dim sum and can be used in making Chinese snacks such as Turnip Cake, Pork Dumplings, and Bowl Kuey Teow.

Then add the pickled radish shreds and other ingredients to the rice flour paste, and steam it in a steamer to make the pastry snacks.

7, mung bean cake:

Mung bean cake is one of the traditional specialties of the pastry, is a summer snack.

According to legend, the ancient Chinese ancestors, in search of peace and health, the Dragon Boat Festival will eat zongzi, xionghuang wine, mung bean cake, salted duck eggs these foods.

According to the taste, there are south and north, the north is Beijing style, the production does not add any fat, the entrance is fluffy, but no sense of oil; south including the Soviet style and Yang style, the production of the need to add fat, fluffy, delicate taste.