Historic Popular Cuisine: Hu Ma Cake

Hu Ma Cake, also known as Hu Cake, Sesame Cake, one of the folk snacks in Shaanxi. Flour-based branded and made, because the top is sprinkled with sesame, hence the name. Is made of special powder, vegetable oil, sesame seeds, days in the grass as the main ingredient of the clear vegetarian food. It was available as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, and developed into a popular convenience food in the Tang Dynasty.

"Hu food" has been popular in China since the Han and Wei Dynasties, and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. An Shi rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong west, walked to Xianyang Jixian Palace, there is nothing to eat, had to use the "Hu cake" to fill hunger. The General Jian" Xuanzong said: the day to the middle, on the still not eat, Yang Guozhong from the city Hu cake to offer. Hu three provinces note: "Hu cake today's steamed cake". Gao like the hole said: "Hu cake words to Hu Ma with the also". Characterized by crispy oil, salty and light, nutritious. It is characterized by its yellow color, crispy skin, soft inside, sesame oil fragrance.

Production:

One, take 350 grams of flour, add vegetable oil, refined salt, pepper made of pastry. Another 150 grams of flour and water and into the skin surface, pulled into a small dose of 10, one by one rolled into a piece, wrapped into the pastry surface (small package of pastry), and then folded and rolled twice, kneaded into a round biscuit biscuit (there is a large package of pastry method: that is, the entire skin rolled into a piece, put into the pastry, folded and rolled, and then pulled into a small dose of kneaded into the cake biscuits). Brush a layer of egg white on each biscuit blank, dip a layer of sesame seeds, into the three griddle (or oven) in the baking until both sides are golden brown that is.

Dietary supplement value: the sesame seeds are rich in vitamin E, blood, laxative and other effects, can slow down the aging process, run the five organs, strong muscles and bones, beneficial to the energy and so on.

Tips: men and women of all ages.

Business case: sesame biscuits sesame and cake aroma into one, generation after generation, have been sesame biscuits "enthusiasts". 80 years ago - 1927, Langzhong sesame biscuits in Chengdu, Qingyang Palace flower will be awarded the bronze medal. 20 years ago - 19 years ago - 19 years ago, Langzhong sesame biscuits in Chengdu, Qingyang Palace flower will be awarded the bronze medal. 20 years ago - 1987, China's financial and economic press published the book "Chinese snacks", included a representative Langzhong sesame biscuits, and give a high evaluation: "brownish red color, beautiful shape, crispy and sweet, stored for more than 20 days, its quality does not change, easy to carry, as a good travel. Traveling goodies."

"Hu Ma cake like learning Kyoto, the surface of the crisp oil fragrance of the new out of the oven, sent to the Hunger and Greed Yang Ambassador, tasted like auxiliary Xing no." This is the great poet of the Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi in the "send Hu Ma cake and Yang Wanzhou" poem, the praise of Hu Ma cake. Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, the houma cake is very famous, especially the best production of Fu Xing Fang.