Vine cake

Vine cake, one of the famous four seasons cakes in Beijing. The crispy skin is rich in layers, sweet and palatable in taste, crisp and soft, and has a strong fragrance of fresh wisteria flowers. In the past, every spring, Beijingers liked to make seasonal food with flowers and flour, and the vine cake was one of them. The rattan flowers are in full bloom in April, with a sweet and elegant fragrance, which is both quiet and long-lasting, inspiring. In mid-spring, wisteria is in full bloom, ziyun is abundant, vines are climbing around the frame, and the fragrance is full of court. This is the most appropriate time to eat wisteria cakes. There are two kinds of wisteria cakes: store-made and home-made The old-fashioned cake shop in Beijing is the best store system. The turned-hair wisteria cakes and rose cakes are crisp layer by layer, and their skins are as white as snow and as thin as cicadas. When they are turned slightly, the layers of white skins are like pieces of goose feathers, so they are called turned-hair. This kind of cake is also called the best choice among all the cakes made by old-fashioned cake shops. In the late Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Sui Shi Ji", it said: "In March, when the money was collected and steamed, it was combined with sugar noodles, which was called Yuqian cake. Those who take the vines as flowers are called vines cakes. Food that is in season. " Preparation method of raw materials [refined flour] [white sugar] [white oil] [rattan flower] [peach kernel, etc.] Add white sugar into flour and stir with water to form a flexible and moist dough; Mix flour with white oil, and knead until the crisp surface is even and moderate in hardness; After the white sugar in the pot is dissolved with water, add maltose, and boil until the sugar shreds can be pulled out, then add the flour and white oil that have been ground with dill into the syrup, and mix until the sugar stuffing is suitable and does not get pimples (when used, add fresh wisteria flowers); Remove the solvent from the dough, press it into a flat circle, wrap it in crispy noodles and stuffing, and bake it in an oven with a baking tray built at about 160 degrees for about 10 minutes.
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