Youyu moon cake

Flour, white sugar and sesame oil, supplemented by spices such as rose, green shredded pork, walnut kernel, peanut kernel, raisin and sesame, a traditional recipe and modern production technology are being made. Today, the first moon cake culture festival in Youyu County kicked off. Zhang Xiang, member of the Standing Committee of Youyu County and Minister of Propaganda Department, said that the first Moon Cake Culture Festival was held to further promote traditional culture, show the style of enterprises, promote the sale of moon cakes, create a good environment for consumers to buy moon cakes, and make the Moon Cake Festival an important and sustainable brand cultural activity of Youyu. He said that in recent years, the Youyu County Party Committee and the county government have continuously upgraded traditional industries around green specialty foods, adopted the methods of government guidance, industry self-discipline and management according to law, guided and supported mooncake producers to set up Youyu County Food Association, and formulated industry regulations and quality standards for mooncake production. Registered the trademark of "Green Capital" moon cake, issued implementation opinions on standardizing and rectifying the moon cake market, and formed a development model of "unified standards, unified trademarks and unified packaging". At present, a new pattern of traditional industry of Youyu has been established, which has made Youyu's specialty "Lvdu Mooncake" go to the big market and embark on the track of small-scale, large-scale and standardization. By 2006, there were more than 30 large and small mooncake processing factories in the county with 300 employees, producing more than 20 kinds of mooncakes with special flavor such as mixed sugar cakes, pulp cakes, crystal cakes, oil skins, crispy egg yolks, fruits and bean paste. Youyu County, located in the north of Shanxi Province, is a production base of high-quality flax oil in Shanxi Province. According to historical records, Youyu has been planting hemp for more than two thousand years. Youyu moon cake produced with sesame oil is famous in Shanxi. Youyu moon cake is made of local pure sesame oil as the main ingredient, with the above-mentioned flour and white sugar, supplemented by condiments such as rose, green shredded pork, walnut kernel, peanut kernel, raisin and sesame. It is refined by traditional technological formula combined with modern production technology, and has the characteristics of "sweet but not greasy, crisp but not scattered, and not spoiled for a long time".
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