Xiekehuang sesame seed cake

Anyone who has traveled to the Confucius Temple in Nanjing must taste Qinhuai snacks, which are economical and inexpensive. Once you enter, it will be unforgettable for a long time. There is a Yongheyuan restaurant in Confucius Temple, which not only manages snacks but also arranges banquets. It is an old-fashioned restaurant. The above-mentioned dried mushrooms and fresh diced fat meat are stuffed and slowly roasted in a special oven by charcoal fire. Because of their yellow appearance, they are named as ideal refreshments and breakfasts in Nanjing cuisine. The crab shell yellow sesame seed cake in Yongheyuan has the reputation of "Huangqiao sesame seed cake". Sesame cakes are divided into sugar oil and onion oil. The sesame seed cake is shaped like a crab, colored like a cooked crab shell, and sandwiched with lard and chopped green onion. It is crisp and fragrant at the entrance and has a long aftertaste. When making, it is a unique manual operation. First, it is kneaded and fermented with refined white flour and appropriate amount of water. The dough should be kneaded carefully, the fermentation and alkali should be moderate, and the ghee should be kneaded evenly. The lard used for stuffing must be suet, and the chopped green onion should be green onion. After the biscuit embryo is made, it is necessary to brush the surface with thin water and sprinkle sesame seeds. Sesame seeds should be sprinkled evenly, and the sesame seeds should be stuck firmly and upright in the furnace. It can be seen that the sesame seed cake technology is not simple. The quality of cakes is constantly improving, and they are as famous as Huangqiao sesame cakes. Legend has it that once Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River and came to the huangqiao town in the north of the Yangtze River. He found that there was a note posted outside the shop, "Huangqiao baked wheat cake is famous all over the country", so he stepped into the shop, called the skillful master to come and make some Huangqiao baked wheat cake and said that it was delicious and rewarding. The skillful master immediately began to make it, while Emperor Qianlong watched the operation, only to see that there were ten operation processes from kneading dough, adding crisps, stuffing, adding oil, adding onions, adding sugar syrup, sticking sesame seeds and baking in the furnace. When the skillful master scooped up the biscuit and sent it to Ganlong, he grabbed it and took a bite, even saying, "It smells good! How delicious! Give you twenty taels of silver. " Since then, this "Huangqiao sesame seed cake" has become famous.
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