Beijing golden cake

Golden cake is hawthorn cake, which was made in the middle of Qing Dynasty and is a traditional food in Beijing. At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi loved this bite and sent people out of the palace to buy hawthorn cakes. Empress Dowager Cixi found the hawthorn cake of Taixing delicious, but the name of hawthorn cake was indecent, so she named it Golden Cake. At that time, there were two most famous golden cake shops in Beijing: Taixing and Fuchuanzhai. These two hawthorn cakes had different practices and characteristics. The golden cake of Taixing is made with alum, and the color of the golden cake is like rouge, which is bright and bright, but generally it can't be put in the sky; Fuchuanzhai's golden cake is made with ancestral secret recipe without alum. The golden cake is golden in color and can be eaten until the dog days. Although the shopkeepers of the two gold cake shops are surnamed Zhang, people only call Taixing the Golden Cake Zhang. It's not that Fuchuanzhai's golden cake is worse than Taixing's, but Taixing's has been touched by Lafayette. The golden cake produced by Taixing Golden Cake Village is as famous as the sour plum soup of Xinyuanzhai and the autumn pear cream of Tongyizhai. "Taixing Golden Cake Farm" was run by Zhang Zhongheng, nephew of Zhang Yuantai, an old shopkeeper, in 1956. After Zhang Zhongheng's death in 1964, Taixing Golden Cake Farm merged into Qianmen Food Factory in Luoma City, and was later called Xuanwu Food Factory. There are many kinds of golden cakes: eight-treasure golden cakes, osmanthus honey cakes, improved flower cakes and crystal golden cakes, which have different tastes and characteristics. Eight-treasure golden cake is to add a certain amount of preserved fruit, fruit pulp, etc. to the golden cake, which is beautiful in appearance and unique in taste. Sweet-scented osmanthus honey cake is made by adding a little fresh sweet-scented osmanthus into golden cake, which tastes fragrant, mainly sweet and not very sour. The improved flower cake is to mold the golden cake into various shapes. The common legendary figures such as the Eight Immortals, the Longevity Star, the Monkey, the Bajie and the Tang Priest are as lifelike as dough figurines. Crystal golden cake is unique. It is generally made into a sheet with a thickness of about 1 cm, which is very transparent. You can clearly see the people and things opposite you when you hold it in your hand.
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