Daming traditional sesame seed cake

Guan Shu chicken nest sesame seed cake

Daming county is located in the plain, and wheat is the main crop. There is a snack in Guan Shu Town, daming county, which is called chicken nest sesame seed cake. This kind of sesame seed cake is fermented and refined from local wheat flour. Because the stove for making sesame seed cake looks like a chicken nest, it is called chicken nest sesame seed cake. Its characteristics are tender outside, crisp skin and soft inside, golden color, rich wheat flavor, salty and delicious, thin in the middle and thick around, with sesame seeds on one side, and excellent taste, which has both the original flavor of slightly sweet wheat flour and sesame fragrance. It is one of the traditional snacks in daming county and a favorite food. The oven of chicken nest sesame seed cake is very special. First, turn an iron pot upside down, paste three or five layers of paper or wheat straw on it, and then paste red mud about an inch thick. In this way, the whole shape is like a chicken nest. Its practice is very particular, with flour and dough fermented, spiced powder, sesame seeds and sanitary oil, moderate salinity, three layers inside and outside, beautiful and generous. Charcoal fire should be used to burn the furnace, and the size of the fire should be strictly controlled. The baked sesame seed cake is attractive in color and tender in the outside. It tastes better with beef or eggs. If you eat it with shredded tofu, it's a must! .