In the Tang Dynasty, what kind of desserts would people in Chang'an eat?

During the Tang Dynasty, there were many desserts that people in Chang'an could eat, such as cheese topped with fresh cherries, ice cream, frozen flower cake and so on, which were very popular among some high society. Desserts are always mouth-watering, but do you know what kind of desserts were eaten in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty? Although the culinary technology was not developed at that time, but the high society was very extravagant, you can enjoy a variety of desserts, and even modern people are very favorite? Ice cream?

One of the most popular desserts of all time was ice cream.

One, cheese poured fresh cherries

Yang Tai Fei out of the country, there is such a paragraph, Tang Xuanzong because of pining for the departure of Yang Guifei mindless diet, the Empress made a delicious cane cherry, but the Emperor did not buy it. Although it is a one-off sentence, it paints us a picture of a delicious cuisine. Cane syrup actually means maltose and honey, which was one of the main ingredients in that dynasty is making desserts. At that time, people only knew that drying the sugar cane juice could increase the concentration, and they were not perfect in making sugar. The Tang Dynasty people would pour the made cane juice on top of the cherries to increase the sweetness, and some people like to pair it with cheese, which is also known as cheese poured over fresh cherries.

Second, frozen pastry flower cake

Frozen pastry flower cake is also a more magical dessert, the chef will be the first to heat the pastry to the degree of melting, add to the sweetness of the honey or cane juice, and then slowly drizzle it into the vessel. When the pastry cools, it gradually takes shape and looks like a mountain peak from afar. To make this dessert even more beautiful, fake flowers or resin are inserted as decoration, or it is dyed in other colors.

Three, ice cream

Maybe many people do not know, in the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an already have? Ice cream? s existence, only that the ice cream of that time was slightly different from now. Royalty and nobility usually had ice cellars, so that even on hot summer days you could have a cool, chilled treat. For example, in the palace, there was a dessert where ingredients such as glutinous rice and milk were mixed together and frozen in an ice cellar to make delicious ice cream. Even in the private sector, people like to smash the ice and add sugarcane juice to sweeten it to make delicious shaved ice.