Why do you want to eat sesame cakes in changxia?
According to textual research, this custom spread from Suzhou and Songjiang to Yancheng during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, which can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period at the earliest.
Wang Dengzuo said that during the Legend of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Adou was rescued by Zhao Zilong from Cao Jun's million-strong army in Changbanpo. Because Adou's mother committed suicide by jumping into a well, Liu Bei took Adou with her. Later, Zhou Yu played a honey trap, and Liu Bei married the sister of Sun Quan, the prince of Wu, as his second wife. Liu Bei was going to war, so it was inconvenient to take Dou, so he gave Dou to Mrs. Sun for support. At that time, Mrs. Sun lived in Wu with mild climate and rich products. Liu Bei asked her to raise a sinus safely and at ease, so she prepared many gifts and specially made many steamed cakes, which were divided into twenty loads, layered on top of each other, separated by vegetables and leaves, and escorted to Wu.
When I arrived in Wu, it happened to be the long summer season. Mrs. Sun was very happy to see the chubby little sinus in vain. However, Mrs. Sun also has concerns. After all, she is a stepmother. If there is a mistake, not only will it be difficult for the husband to explain it, but it will also leave a good story inside and outside the court. The beautiful and clever Mrs. Sun had a good idea: today is long summer. We'll weigh Adou in front of Zilong, and then we'll know whether the children are well raised in the long summer festival of the following year. After making up your mind, weigh adzuki bean. Zhao Zilong felt fresh, and he also said an auspicious sentence: "Empress, the child is hooked, safe and well raised."
Then, Zhao Zilong happily presented the gifts one by one. But 20 loads of steamed cakes were crushed and deformed. What should I do? Zhao Zilong had a brainwave and said, "Mother, according to our custom, every household in the long summer makes flat cakes for people. Please accept them." Mrs. Sun happily accepted these rotten cakes and immediately distributed them to the ladies-in-waiting, who all praised and said yes.
Later generations gradually formed the custom of making and eating cakes in the long summer. Every long summer, people pick Tianer, malt powder and glutinous rice flour, embed them in bean paste and walnut kernel, cook them into jiaozi, put them in a steamer, fry them in oil, sprinkle sesame seeds with sugar water, and make them into malt cakes as gifts for relatives and friends. Because Tianer only grows in long summer, "Tianer"
Is changxia sesame seed cake delicious?
If you only look at the appearance, the cake is not pleasing at all: flat, round, dark gray with grass color. If you look closely, you will find sesame seeds on it. Sesame mixed with gray-black skin is not delicious at all, but the cake is ugly. Once put in the mouth, it has a surprisingly good taste.
The crust made of glutinous rice flour, malt flour, wheat ears and sesame seeds is soft and sticky. The skin of the cake is not the same as that of jiaozi, but softer, more tough and more elastic than that of jiaozi. At the same time, it seems to be similar to the skin of green dumplings, but it has a unique fragrance of "Tianer" more than the skin of green dumplings.
Under such a soft skin, the long summer cake contains a "strong heart"-big walnut kernel, which tastes crisp. Different from other walnut kernels, it is wrapped in bean paste, and it tastes delicate and becomes very sweet. The bean paste melts at the entrance, and you won't feel tired after eating it. It can be described as fragrant, sweet, soft and glutinous, so delicious that it makes your mouth water.
Practice of long summer sesame seed cake
9. Salt and pepper biscuit: high flour 370g, water 200g, yeast 3g, peanut oil 30g, salt 10g, pepper noodles 6g.
Baking time:180℃ for 20 minutes, brush the whole egg liquid on the surface and sprinkle sesame seeds.
1. Mix flour, water and yeast, knead into smooth dough, and let stand for 10 minute. Sesame cakes are half cooked, so don't wait until the dough is cooked.
2, homemade Chili noodles: Chili stir-fry in the iron pot, you can turn off the fire with a crackle, and the cooled Chili is very brittle and easy to break. Put pepper into a grinder and grind it into powder. Pepper noodles are ready. Zanthoxylum bungeanum has a strong fragrance after being fried at home.
3. Mix pepper noodles with salt.
4, take out the dough, you don't need the dough to be completely opened to make sesame cakes, and the semi-dough state is the best operation. Put the dough on the chopping board and roll it into a large and thin rectangular dough.
5. Brush a layer of peanut oil on the dough and let the oil spread evenly on the whole dough. Peanut oil chips are very delicious.
6. Sprinkle salt and pepper evenly on the greased dough.
7. Roll up from one end of the dough. Pull the good noodles while rolling, make the noodles as thin as possible, and roll them as many times as possible until they grow into strips. In this way, there are many layers and thin skin.
8. Roll into strips and cut into 9 parts.
9. Gently flatten the dough and roll it long, with both ends folded in half towards the middle.
10, the bread is folded down and the smooth side is up, rounded with the palm of your hand, and then flattened into a round cake.
1 1. Brush a layer of whole egg liquid on the surface of the pressed round cake.
12, pick up the round cake and press it on the sesame seeds with the side that has been brushed with the whole egg liquid, so that it is covered with sesame seeds.
13. Spread sesame seeds on the round cakes, put them on a golden baking tray, and ferment them twice for 40 minutes each time.
14. After two fermentations, it was sent to the preheated oven.
15 later, 20 minutes later, the crispy cake was baked delicious! It tastes best when it's hot. You can't finish eating the sesame seed cake. Put it in the oven again before you eat it next time, and the taste is still very strong.