Introduction of Chinese traditional cakes

My hometown is Huizhou, which lies between Huangshan Mountain and Tianmu Mountain. The scenery is beautiful and the food is famous. The following are some special products for my hometown to entertain relatives and friends in the New Year, to share with you:

1, inch gold sugar

Full of flavor, the inner layer is the stuffing of salted osmanthus mixed with crushed orange cake, the middle layer is the sugar peel, and the outer layer is sesame. It tastes sweet and crisp, does not stick to teeth, and has the fragrance of sesame, osmanthus and orange cake. It is one of the most popular snacks in Huizhou Rural New Year Festival. Inch gold candy, a famous scenic spot in Huizhou, is an ancient candy. After sugar is heated, it is wrapped and broken into 3.3 cm (1 inch) long golden strips, hence the name "inch gold". An inch of gold candy has a sandwich inside and sesame seeds outside. Exquisite production technology, sweet taste and long aftertaste are deeply loved by the majority of Chinese New Year consumers.

2, the top market crisp

Huizhou folk proverb says, "Don't enter the hall without crisp New Year greetings". Also known as crisp sugar, it is a famous pastry with Huizhou characteristics. It first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty and was famous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Commonly known as "red paper bag" or "red envelope sugar", it is made of fried sesame powder and sugar. It was wrapped in Zhang Xiaohong paper and grew into a cuboid with a width of about 3 cm. The shop's signboard is printed on red paper, which is a fine product of crisp candy with sweet taste and soft texture, and is called "top crisp candy".

3. Zhonghetang

Zhonghe soup is a famous dish in Qimen. Whenever Qimen people hold a banquet, neutralization soup is essential and is the first dish on the table. Zhonghe was originally named "Zhonghe". Zhonghe is a river that originates in Qimen and flows into Poyang County, Jiangxi Province. A river flows from Wuyuan in the east and a river flows from Zhide in the west. The East River, the West River and the middle reaches meet in the upper reaches of Poyang Lake and jointly pour into Poyang Lake. Both the east and west rivers are muddy, and only the middle river is crystal clear, rich in shrimp and especially delicious.

4. Hui Mo Su

Or for breakfast, or for refreshments, you can give gifts to friends during the Chinese New Year, or exercise for food. Hui Mo Su often reminds people of a trip to Huizhou and smells the fragrance of Shan Ye. Hui ink crisp is shaped like Hui ink, black and shiny, fragrant, soft and delicate, sweet and refreshing, instant in the mouth, excellent in taste, and has the functions of moistening throat, nourishing lung and blackening hair.

Step 5 weigh sugar

It should be good to eat sugar in the Spring Festival. Sugar is wrapped in caramel with white sesame seeds or black sesame seeds, and there is a white sugar heart inside. Sugar hearts are made of white sugar mixed with sesame powder and rice flour. If you pinch it thinner (such as a pen container), it will become a "fragrance". It is crisp, non-sticky, sweet and delicious, suitable for all ages. Huizhou, Anhui Province is called sugar. It was first born in Wan 'an Town, Xiuning County. This is a very distinctive caramel product, which is shaped like a large-scale tube cut off one by one, so it is called "sugar".

6. Fuling rose cake

The appearance of rose cake is as white as jade, and a little rose, orange cake and plum are looming, just like emerald agate embedded in white jade. This product was first produced in the Qing Dynasty and lasted for a long time. Fuling Rose Crisp is a traditional snack in Jixi County, Anhui Province. Fuling Rose Crisp is a traditional pastry with a long history, which is produced in Fuling Village, Jixi County. It is named because it contains roses as auxiliary materials and has the fragrance of roses.

7.hibiscus cake

Soaking glutinous rice and fried cake chips are complex and high-tech, and only a few manufacturers can produce this kind of cake. Huizhou has the custom of entertaining VIPs with hibiscus cakes around the Lunar New Year. Hibiscus cake is made of fine glutinous rice flour into rice cake slices, then fried and refined with white sugar and maltose. Among them, soaking glutinous rice and fried cake slices are very complicated and high in technology, and only a few manufacturers can produce this kind of cake. Huizhou customs, around the Lunar New Year, use hibiscus cakes to entertain distinguished guests.

Step 8 be happy

In Huizhou, the design of retort pouch is complicated, and its taste and rich annual flavor are said to be praised by even Emperor Qianlong. In the printing sound, the candied white rice engraved with the words "blessing" and "longevity" is steamed into a clean white and bright jade color, and red dots are given to the neighborhood, which is called "Faxi candied fruit" and is suitable for frying and boiling.

9.steamed bread

Laomo is a traditional noodle of Han nationality in northern Anhui, which is similar to and different from pancakes. As a kind of pasta originated in the Central Plains, steamed stuffed bun has a history of more than two thousand years. Steamed bread is made of unfermented flour into soft dough, which is rolled into a circle with a thickness of about 0. 1 cm and a diameter of about 30 cm with a rolling pin. During the Spring Festival, put the steamer, put the grate, put water in the pot, boil it, spread the cloth on the drawer, and put the rolled pancakes on the drawer.

10, Huizhou Bao jiaozi

It is wrapped in alpine leaves and tied with palm leaves. It looks like a pillow. Old Huizhou people love to get married and move to a new house during the Spring Festival. They always sprinkle some of these four-corner zongzi from the roof, which means "peace on all sides" and "happiness in all seasons".

1 1, crab shell yellow sesame seed cake

Huizhou specialty snacks can be seen everywhere. Because of the long baking time, most of the water in the cake evaporates, which is beneficial to storage. Once wet, it is still crisp and fragrant after baking. The skin is layered as thin as paper, and it is crisp and oily but not greasy after baking. When buying sesame cakes, you'd better choose fresh ones and put them on the stove. Remember to open the mouth of the bag after putting it in the bag, and wrap the cake when it is cold, otherwise the cake will not be crisp when it is baked by steam.

12, tiger skin tofu,

Huizhou traditional snacks were also introduced to China on the tip of the tongue. The old tofu used to make hairy tofu should be as clear as snow and as jade as a knife, and it will not spill when it falls to the ground. It is named after the fur is striped with tiger skin after being fried on the kang.

13, Huizhou hairy tofu,

The four seasons announced that the stall owner was carrying a pair of tofu burdens, one was dry wood, the other was a flat-bottomed pot, and the other was hairy tofu, sesame oil and pepper sauce. When frying, the hot, delicious and noisy hairy tofu on the flat pot makes people have an appetite. Eating hairy tofu from a stall is also very distinctive. You don't need a bowl, just eat it in a pot with chopsticks. It tastes abnormal.

14, Huizhou stone pot chicken

Stone chicken is a nourishing food, and many tourists come for it. Pheasant is a frog that lives in the gap of mountain stream, and it is a specialty of Huangshan Mountain. Whether it's braised or steamed, the fragrant smell and fat hind legs are even worse than chicken. The most classic traditional practice is steaming, the soup base is clear, and it is steamed in a bowl without losing its original flavor. Eat more stone chickens, and you can avoid prickly heat sores in summer. If you keep the stone skin when cooking, it will taste better and have higher nutrition.

15, liqueur,

In the streets or market towns of Huangshan City, you can often see people carrying the burden to sell. At both ends of the burden are two stone drum-shaped bamboo baskets, with glass in the middle of the cover and bowls of rice wine under the glass. There is also a pit in the middle of the rice wine, which is full of sweet wine juice. In hot summer, eating a bowl can cool the five internal organs; In winter, wine will be cooked with candied dates or eggs. It tastes hot, fragrant and sweet, which makes people shudder. The practice of making sweet wine can be exquisite, using fine glutinous rice.

16, stewed pigeon in Huangshan

Huangshan Mountain is a world-famous tourist attraction with the reputation of "the first mountain in the world". Huangshan Mountain is not only famous for its scenery, but also for its special food and game. Stewed pigeon in Huangshan is a dish made of Huangshan yam and Huangshan wild pigeon, which are famous in Huangshan, and boiled with water. Yam nourishes yin and tonifies the kidney, and pigeon meat strengthens the body, which is regarded as a good product for nourishing and prolonging life by local people.

17, Tunxi drunken crab

A dish along the river is a famous dish in Ziyunge, Tunxi ancient town, and it is a traditional snack. Zhejiang businessmen and Jiangsu businessmen compete to sell, and today's small altar packaging is a good gift for relatives and friends. Tunxi drunken crab is a famous specialty in Tunxi, Anhui Province. It is a feast treasure with complete individual, yellow color, tender meat, delicious taste, rich wine flavor and sweet aftertaste. The sealed drunken crab can be kept for two months without deterioration.

18, Huizhou smelly fish

Stinky mandarin fish is a classic dish in Huizhou with a history of more than 200 years. One of the biggest characteristics is "smelly". Generally, people who are experimenting for the first time may not be able to adapt to it, just like seeing durian. But it smells bad, but it tastes crisp and fragrant, and the practice of stinky mandarin fish is also very particular. After pickled mandarin fish for seven days, the fish absorbed the flavor and began to stink. When eating, put meat slices and bamboo shoots, fry them in the oil pan for a while, and let the soup be absorbed slowly. This way, the skin is crisp, but the meat is delicate and memorable.

These are all the annual delicacies in our hometown! The delicious food here makes you linger in Huizhou, and makes us wanderers forget it, because it is the taste of hometown. I hope all friends who come to Huizhou will like it and bring some Huizhou food to your relatives and friends for them to share before coming back. . .