Where is the specialty of Lushan Dahi Cake?

Lushan Dahi Cake is an intangible cultural heritage of Weihai.

Lushan Dahi Cake is a unique flavor of pasta, famous in China and abroad. "Carrying the bride, giving the bride away, bending the head to make the eyebrows take care of the red makeup. Uncovering the wedding box, jewelry, fruitcake (wedding cake) a basket." This ballad reflects the traditional wedding scene. With the change of the times, many of the old wedding customs have disappeared, but the custom of making and distributing wedding cakes has been inherited to this day.

The cake harmonizes with the meaning of merging. The cake is also known as the daughter-in-law cake because the female side of the branding more. The original shape of the cake is very small, the size of the chess piece. Neighboring counties, so far, to maintain that style, but only the development of Nippon Hill, the cake has become a super-sized. This big wedding cakes, with a strong regional flavor of Lushan. The reason for this situation is that the people of Lushan simple and brisk, sincere and kind, hospitable, hospitality to people who do not give people a loss to eat as an honor. Once upon a time wheat sowing area is small, wheat flour is very expensive. Whose children get married, the wedding cake branded big, branded more, will be universally praised by the people. In order to show and spread the name of the happy masters, race with the companion to increase the size of the wedding cake. Therefore, there is a situation where one family cooks more than the other. Of course, some people's competitive mind, but also played a role in promoting the role. After a phase of disorderly increase, people began to return to rationality. Cake is too big need to break open to eat, marriage is a matter of harmony, break open to unlucky, gifts to friends and relatives to carry is not convenient. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Civil War, the big happy cake stereotypes, and inherited to this day.

Liushan young people to get married, the branding of the wedding cake is a big thing, the cake is good, will improve the reputation of the wedding. A few days before the wedding, aunts and neighbors to help make the cake. Laughing, smiling, lively, which in itself is a festive landscape. The cakes are regular round, 14 to 16 centimeters in diameter and 4 centimeters thick. In the 601 administrative villages of Lushan, most housewives over 60 years of age can make Lushan big happy cakes. However, the production process of the authentic Lushan cakes is very delicate, 500 grams of flour can be branded 4 cakes, the ratio of raw materials and pot cooking fire is the key. Making authentic Lushan Dahi Cakes is a time-consuming and laborious job. In order to cook 100 multi-cakes, for example, the first step is to send "leaven (dialect sound: called) son": 5 kg of eggs, 3.25 kg of sugar, peanut oil 2 kg, mixed and stirred, plus yeast fermentation, to the leaven bubbling, commonly known as "open", that is, fermentation! The second step is to make the dough. The second step is the dough: 12.5 kg of wheat flour to add leavening flour, dry noodles with warm water, to be kneaded, kneaded dough into the basin and then fermentation, hair until the dough on the rise of air bubbles can be. The third step is to roll out the cake: according to the weight of about 200 grams of wet flour to pinch the cake blanks, the cake blanks kneaded once, kneaded soft with a small rolling pin to roll out the cake, to be rolled to a rounded, consistent thickness. Cover the rolled out cakes and let them ferment again until the cakes are round and fat, and the surface of the cakes is fine and tender before they are put into the pot. The fourth step is to burn the pot: in the iron pot coated with a little peanut oil, the fire is hot. Or in the bottom of a large iron pot on a layer of clean sand, in the sand on top of a thin round metal pot stickers, fierce heat to the pot stickers to heat up the pot and then burn the pot. The fifth step is to cook: spread a thin layer of peanut oil in the pot and heat until the oil does not smoke. After putting in the raw cakes, keep them on a gentle flame all the time. Frequent flipping should be carried out, so that it is heated evenly, in order to be able to heat the cake and cook it, but not burn the crust to the degree. Lushan hi cake is characterized by crisp, sweet, fragrant **** the same flavor, as well as soft, moist, smooth and other family characteristics. "Japonica rice and white flour, each person's means". Because in the production process, in the fermentation time, spices to add, fire grasp, etc., often each family has its own set, so there will be a different taste aftertaste.

Happy cakes for different purposes and different names, there are pressure box cake, placed by the woman in the dowry suitcase, which should be 8 hoard bottom cake, diameter 30 centimeters or more. Hoard is a device to hold food, hoard bottom cake symbolizes the rich food abundance, happiness and contentment. Hoard bottom cake should be cut into small fan-shaped pieces, to be distributed to come to the wedding of the closest friends and relatives. There are cave cake (also called body cake, the bride and groom eat), running cake (to friends and family, neighbors). In the era of low wheat cultivation and low production, the family who made a lot of wedding cakes was envied and praised.

With the change of the times, the use of Lushan Daxi Cake is getting wider and wider. On festivals, birthdays, children, relatives, children's schooling, and going to work abroad, they have to make cakes and distribute them to friends and relatives, and keep some for their own enjoyment to show their joy.

The Lushan Daxi Cake was listed as Weihai Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2011.

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