Birthday Tradition in China

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The word "pastry" means "dim sum", which can be used as breakfast or dim sum. For a long time, compared with the south, Tianjin's cakes have always been regarded as a "gourmet desert", and even many people simply can't tell the difference between "Beijing Eight Pieces" and "Tianjin Eight Pieces", only knowing pea yellow and distinctive flowers.

Today, Feng Fengjun will tell you about these eight or more "Beijing Eight Pieces" and "Tianjin Eight Pieces".

The dispute of "Xiang Tao Village" is a historical legacy of the integration of Jiangnan pastry and Beijing school. Figure/Daoxiangcun Pastry

0 1 Beijing Bakuai: Buy more than eight cakes.

Beijing-style cakes have several characteristics: heavy oil is lighter than sugar, and the taste is mostly pure sweet or pure salty. Influenced by ethnic groups, Beijing-style cakes are called "cake shops", so the time-honored cake shops are also called cake shops.

Today, I want to talk about eight major events. The first thing that comes to mind is Daoxiang Village. Figure/vision china

In different seasons, Bobo Store will provide different seasonal cakes: sun cakes in early spring and February, mung bean cakes and pea yellow in June, moon cakes on August 15th, flower cakes on Chongyang Festival in September, and honey for ancestor worship during the Spring Festival ... Among many cakes, the "Eight Big Pieces" of the Forbidden City are the most famous and become the "darlings" of airport car stores.

Beijing Eight Pieces/Daoxiang Village that basically fits the "template" map

Bakuai refers to the cakes with auspicious words such as "Fu, Lu, Shou, Xi, auspiciousness, ruyi and Ankang" printed on eight plates in the etiquette and red and white birthday banquets in the Qing Dynasty, which is called "Bakuai".

When the court cakes arrived, we saw: Fu Zi cakes symbolizing happiness, generous Taishi cakes, peach cakes symbolizing longevity, happy cakes printed with double "happiness", silver ingot cakes reposing wealth, scroll-shaped crispy cakes, chicken oil cakes homophonic "more than good luck", and jujube flower cakes implying early birth.

It is necessary to visit relatives and friends on holidays. Figure/insect creativity

Since then, according to the raw materials and tastes, Beijing Eight Pieces have evolved into various derivative versions: big eight pieces, small eight pieces, fine eight pieces, crispy eight pieces, big eight pieces of wine skin, small eight pieces of wine skin, fine eight pieces of wine skin ... various versions are dazzling.

Nowadays, after hundreds of years of inheritance and changes, our long-established pastry brand has integrated many "foreign elements" and formed a unique flavor.

Tianjin Eight Pieces: Don't just know flowers.

"Tianjin Eight Pieces" originated from, but formed its own school.

Tianjin Bakuai is made of eight kinds of fillings, such as hawthorn, rose, green plum, white sugar, red bean paste, jujube paste, salt and pepper, raisins and so on. , and covered with oil. There are also various patterns and shapes. Third, silver ingots, osmanthus, blessings, blessings, longevity words, peaches and so on.

Compared with Beijing's eight pieces, Tianjin's eight pieces are more compact and exquisite. Figure/insect creativity

Like "Beijing Bapian", heavy oil is also the characteristic of "Tianjin Bapian". Fresh eight pieces can be oiled as soon as they are put on paper.

"Tianjin Eight Pieces" can also be divided into big eight pieces and small eight pieces. The big eight pattern is complex, and the fewer layers, the easier it is to preserve it completely, while the small eight pattern is the opposite. The more layers, the longer the preservation time.

Tianjin Twist is also the best fried cake in Tianjin. Figure/insect creativity

In addition to eight pieces, Tianjin Twist is now the "red man" of Tianjin cakes, which is popular all over the world. Every visitor to Tianjin may not yearn for "Tianjin Eight Pieces", but he will definitely buy some flowers to take home. Although eating it in one bite is full of calories, the crispy taste still captures a group of "followers".

Small and exquisite, it is the name card of China pastry. Graph/network

If you have a sweet tooth and know it, you don't have to go to a western bakery to play in Tianjin. Trying traditional cakes with local characteristics also makes you defenseless.

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Reflections on the development and origin of Chinese traditional cakes

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