The confectionery that started in 1895

The pastry that started in 1895 is Taoxiangcun.

Beijing Taoxiangcun was founded in 1895 (21st year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty), located in Guanyin Temple outside the Qianmen Gate, it is the first one in the capital to produce and operate southern-flavored foodstuffs, and produces pastries, meats, quick-frozen foodstuffs, mooncakes, Yuanxiao, zongzi and other special foodstuffs, **** more than 600 varieties of 16 major categories. Beijing Taoxiangcun was the first manufacturer in Beijing to produce and operate southern-flavored foods.

In 1993, Beijing Taoxiangcun was recognized as a "Chinese Old Brand", and in 2014, Beijing Taoxiangcun was awarded the "Famous Trademark of China" for "Taoxiangcun". Beijing Taoxiangcun has a clear lineage of confectionery production techniques. The confectionery making skills have a clear lineage and have been passed down to the sixth generation, and in 2007, Beijing Taoxiangcun succeeded in reviving the "Eight Pieces of Beijing", which had disappeared from the capital for more than 50 years, and introduced them to the market as the "top product".

Daixiangcun's classic pastries

1, ox tongue cake

The ox tongue cake is a famous traditional Beijing snack, and the crust of the cake is crispy, with a very high degree of crispiness, and the pretzel filling is oily and mellow, with a salty and sweet taste.

2, jujube flower pastry

Jujube flower pastry is a snack made of ghee (butter, lard), powdered sugar and other ingredients. It originated in the Qing Dynasty in the late years after the original Qing royal wedding and funeral ceremonies essential gifts and furnishings, and only later by the Imperial Household Restaurant into the civil world, become one of the old Beijing to visit friends and relatives to give Beijing eight kinds.

3, hawthorn pot helmet

Hawthorn pot helmet is one of the masterpieces of Beijing traditional cakes and pastries, is the traditional cakes and pastries in the shortening, filling, into a cake of a method; a single skin, wrapped in a single shortening, shortening and then wrapped in the filling, knocking the mold, mold printing, baking.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Daoxiangcun