What are the special snacks in Jiyang

Renfeng Town has a special snack called horseshoe sesame seed cake. Sesame cake is a kind of food baked in a special oven with flour, vegetable oil and sesame as the main raw materials. It is shaped like a horseshoe, hence the name horseshoe sesame seed cake. The freshly baked horseshoe sesame seed cake is crisp outside and tender inside, full of crisp fragrance and fragrance. Horseshoe sesame seed cake is a typical snack in Qing dynasty, which means to make people do their best for the rulers.

Zhang Benling, a snack bar in the west street of Renfeng Town, is one of the descendants of horseshoe sesame seed cake making technology. Zhang Benling said that there is another story about the spread of horseshoe biscuits: more than 300 years ago, uncle Zhang Benling's ancestors fled to Beijing. He found that a horseshoe biscuit shop on the roadside was doing very well. So he had a brainwave and thought of a plan. He begged the owner of the biscuit shop to accept him as a helper. At work, he carefully observed and pondered every detail of the production process of horseshoe biscuits. Soon, he secretly learned all the skills of his boss. Two years later, he said goodbye to his boss and returned to his hometown, Renfeng Town, where he sold horseshoe-shaped biscuits. A few years ago, Zhang Benling and her uncle's cousin started a business selling horseshoe biscuits in partnership. My generous and honest cousin passed on her craft to Zhang Benling without reservation.

Zhang Benling said that the horseshoe biscuits she made were salty and sweet. Retail in 0.5 yuan and 0.7 yuan. The production method of horseshoe sesame seed cake is very particular, and it takes more than 10 processes from production to baking. Its ingredients are rigorous and precise, and the proportion of flour, oil, crisp and sesame used is accurate. Each biscuit weighs about two or three times, but it needs two flour products. The fried batter and pastry rolls are made into multiple layers and used as the pulp of sesame cakes. Then a layer of powder is wrapped outside as the skin of the sesame seed cake. Then rub it into a horseshoe shape on a smooth panel, dip it in sesame seeds and sugar, and bake it on the surface of the pot. The oven used to bake horseshoe biscuits is quite strange. It uses a large frying pan with its face down and its bottom up. In order to maintain the required temperature in the furnace, the pot must be well pasted with mud and the bottom of the furnace is airtight. The ideal fuel for baking horseshoe biscuits is charcoal and chaff, and sawdust can also be used instead.