What are the specialties of Shandong Heze

Specialties of Heze, Shandong include: Caozhou Geng Cake, Chenji Yam, Heze Noodle Sculpture, Caozhou Bakery, Peony Cake and so on.

1, Caozhou Geng cake

Geng cake, also known as Caozhou mirror persimmons, is a traditional local specialty in Heze, Shandong, produced in Heze, Heze is known as the ancient name of Caozhou, and Gengzhuang persimmon cake produced by the best flavor and the name, Caozhou Geng cake is said to have been thousands of years of production history, as early as in the Ming Dynasty on the national reputation, is classified as a tribute to the imperial court.

2, Chenzhi yam

Chenzhi yam, Chenzhi Town, Dingtao District, Heze City, Shandong Province, a specialty of China's national geographic indications products. Chenji yam is named "chicken skin brown yam" because of the rough spots like chicken skin follicles growing on its body surface, which is very similar to chicken skin; it is also named "iron stick yam" because of its hard texture, powdery enough to be cooked for a long time, and not easy to break, and the two roots hit each other with a clanging sound.

3. Heze Noodle Sculpture

Heze Noodle Sculpture is a kind of traditional plastic art, which is simple to make but highly artistic Chinese folk crafts. It takes fine wheat flour and river rice flour as the main raw materials, adds appropriate pigments, makes dough of different colors, and steams it in a pot with appropriate amount of antiseptic, moth-proof and anti-drying agents.

4, Caozhou baklava

Caozhou baklava is one of the famous folk food in southwestern Shandong Province, the shape of the round as the moon, red through yellow, tender, crispy and delicious, the selection of wheat flour, and by and, fermentation, plate, kneading and other processes, according to the flat packet of oil, salt, pepper, fennel and other condiments made of the oil flesh, and then by the cut flowers along the plate, coated with a layer of sugar, the surface of the sesame seed kernel, paste into the oven to bake and become. It is then baked in the oven.

5. Peony Cake

Peony cake is also called "Hundred Flowers Cake" and "Peony Cake". There are Heze Peony Cake and Luoyang Peony Cake. Peony cake is made of bean flour as the main ingredient, mashed with rice and steamed into cake, then matched with selected peas, red beans, red dates, full-fat milk powder, custard powder, etc. The filling is supplemented with carefully soaked peony petals baked.