What are the traditional Chinese pastries

1, horseshoe cake

Horseshoe cake is a kind of Guangdong Province, Fuzhou, Fujian Province and southern Fujian traditional dessert snacks. Legend has it that it originated in the Tang Dynasty, when the emperor visited various places, due to the emperor's love of sweets, but also coincided with the ripening of water chestnuts, so the emperor ordered to use water chestnuts to do a gourmet, sugar water mixed with water chestnut flour steamed. Water chestnut, also known as horseshoe in Cantonese, hence the name.

Horseshoe cake color tea yellow, translucent, can be folded and not cracked, pouting and constantly, melt in the mouth, soft and smooth and tough at the same time, refreshing popping teeth, taste very sweet, in the summer is a very good summer food.

2, osmanthus cake

Osmanthus cake is a traditional pastry, osmanthus cake is more than 300 years of history, osmanthus cake has seasonal, osmanthus cake are made inside the osmanthus season, the wind moves osmanthus season, a pot of wine, a plate of snacks, there will be a kind of "mountain temples and the moon to find osmanthus". The osmanthus cake is made of fresh osmanthus flowers, glutinous rice flour and sugar.

Nowadays, osmanthus flowers can be bought at any time, and now you can eat osmanthus cakes all year round, sweet taste with a light fragrance of osmanthus, plus the middle of the sandwich red bean flavor baked, slippery soft glutinous mouth sweet but not greasy, fragrant and refreshing, with a cup of tea, a different flavor.

3, pea butter

Pea butter is also known as pea butter children, can be said to be the most representative of many Beijingers in the heart of the pastry, is a traditional Beijing snacks, pea butter children were originally Han Chinese folk snacks, generally made with dates, commonly known as brown pea butter children, and then introduced to the Palace, the Qing Dynasty Imperial Catering Room to improve the popularly known as the fine pea butter children,

The old capital of the Food Wing in a poem! said: "never food belongs to yanjing, pea huang'er long famous. Red dates are embedded in gold dust, ten Wen a piece to buy yellow Qiong." The pea yellow is light yellow in color. Pea yellow color light yellow, delicate and pure, into the mouth, with the tip of the tongue gently pursed, pea yellow instantly into pea mud, and then taste cool and refreshing, sweet but not greasy, silk coolness refreshing.

4, Poria cake

Poria cake, also known as "Fuming cake", is a traditional folk cake in southern Fujian, China has a very long history, from ancient times, Poria cake is not only as a leisure pastry, or a tonic.

Poria cake also has the health effect of removing dampness and strengthening the spleen, is a rare food supplement, young and old. Poria cake, as the name suggests, is made of Poria, using Poria grinding powder and rice flour made from the taste of sweet, eat up the entrance fluffy, and rich in toughness.

5, Begonia cake

Begonia cake is a point in the heart of the old generation, created in the Qing Dynasty, is the Qing Dynasty, the famous Jiangnan pastry, because the cake shape is like begonia and famous, and gradually become one of the traditional pastry snacks in Jiangnan.

Mainly with peanut flour, inside the bean paste filling, baked in special molds, the shape of its begonias, the surface of the caramel sprinkled with coffee-colored, plus sesame seeds and red and green melon filaments embellished, eating mouth extraordinarily sweet. It gives people a pleasing mood without eating, so it is a pleasure to eat begonia cake,