Walnut shortbread

Walnut crisp, a specialty of Beijing, is made of walnuts. Walnut, native to the Near East, is also known as walnut and peach, and is also known as the world-famous "four dried fruits" with almond, cashew nut and hazelnut. It can be eaten raw and fried, and can also be used to extract oil, prepare cakes and sweets. It is not only delicious, but also has high nutritional value, and is known as "Long live the child" and "longevity fruit". Specialty culture: To make walnut crisp, firstly, sift the flour, put it on the chopping board to form a circle, put food, odorous powder, white sugar, syrup and fresh eggs in the circle and rub them evenly to dissolve them, then add oil and walnut kernels to mix them evenly, then put the flour into the mixture and divide it into 200 small doses, rub it into a circle by hand, put it into a cake tray, press a small hole with your fingers in the center of each cake blank, sweep the egg paste and stick it. Efficacy of specialty: Walnut has high medicinal value and is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that walnuts are warm, sweet and non-toxic, and have the effects of invigorating stomach, enriching blood, moistening lung and nourishing spirit. "Shennong Materia Medica Classic" lists walnuts as the top grade for long-term service, benefiting qi and prolonging life. In the Tang Dynasty, Meng E wrote "Herbal Medicine for Dietotherapy", which stated that eating walnut kernel can stimulate appetite, moisten blood vessels and make flesh and blood delicate. In the Song Dynasty, Liu Han and others recorded in Kaibao Materia Medica that walnut kernel "makes it fat and healthy, moistens muscles, has black beard and hair, eats more to promote urination, and removes five hemorrhoids." In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen wrote Compendium of Materia Medica, which recorded that walnut kernel has the effects of "invigorating qi and nourishing blood, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, benefiting vital energy, treating triple energizer, warming lung and moistening intestine, treating deficiency cold, asthma and cough, severe pain in waist and feet, hernia in heart, blood dysentery and intestinal wind".
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