Wei county huoshao

Wei county burned as early as the middle of Qing Dynasty, and wei county burned because of its unique technology and crispy taste. After the chaos of "Yan Wang sweeping the north" in Ming Dynasty. The people's livelihood in Hebei is bleak and sparsely populated. In the second year of Yongle, Zhu Di, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, "moved to Shanxi to be practical." With the immigration of Shanxi immigrants, the craft of baking sesame cakes in a hanging furnace, which was originally introduced to Shanxi from the western regions, naturally spread to wei county. wei county people were unique, and combined the technology of big cakes and Hu cakes in the north, using wei county's fine white flour and small ground sesame oil as raw materials, supplemented by fine salt and pepper powder, and baked in a hanging furnace to create a unique "fire". Burning is similar to sesame seed cake technology, but its taste and shape are different. Because it looks like a cow's tongue, it is commonly known as "the cow's tongue burns." As more and more people in wei county are engaged in the business of beating and burning fires in other places, their reputation is getting wider and wider, and people call it "wei county Fire". Wei county fire has exquisite materials, special technology, many delicious layers, tender meat and crisp skin. Mixing dough, stretching strips, forming and baking each process has its own unique features, such as baking in a hanging furnace, using charcoal as the primer, and using firewood to harden the fire; Pay attention to the use of fire, which must be high outside and low inside; The green body is placed in the furnace and turned four times and seven times. The freshly baked burnt skin is brown, crisp outside and soft inside, fragrant but not greasy, and tastes excellent. It is said that in the early years of the Republic of China, the famous teachers who set fires in wei county were Huang Jie Shi Laomei, West Street and Youlin. Before and after liberation, Liu Zhenying, Li Baohai and Ma Peiqin were famous for a while. In recent years, a number of rising stars such as Li Zhu have emerged. Now there are several new varieties of wei county fire, such as crispy fire, sugar fire, stuffing fire and so on, to meet people's increasingly picky tastes.
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