Horseshoe Crisp

Horseshoe Crisp, known as "sweet cake", is a famous spot in Xiamen and Quanzhou. Tongan's horseshoe crisp is the most famous. Horseshoe Crisp is a traditional pastry in Jiangyin. At the end of the Qing dynasty, Zhenjiang cakes of the same name were copied and improved into noodles. This product is made of fine flour and red beans as raw materials, and nuts as auxiliary materials, and fermented with glutinous rice. Because the finished product is thick around, thin in the middle and shaped like a horseshoe, it is named. Its characteristics are crisp, loose and soft, with good color, fragrance and taste. Horseshoe crisp was originally a court food in Tang Dynasty. According to legend, when Li Shimin, the original wife of the Tang Dynasty, returned home to visit relatives in Shaanxi Province, she brought horseshoe crisp as a carry-on gift. After tasting it, the villagers were amazed. With the consent of the Queen, the bride's family sent an ingenious person to learn the craft of making this beautiful spot from the accompanying chef, which was later introduced to the people. Fujian and Xinjiang were opened in the Tang Dynasty, and this kind of palace beauty was introduced into southern Fujian with the people from the south. When making horseshoe cake, paste the cake on the wall of the shaft furnace and bake it. The cake is horseshoe-shaped, so it is called. In the Qing Dynasty, poets wrote a poem praising horseshoe crisp, saying that it has a long history and is appreciated by poets. Its raw materials are flour, sugar, malt and lard; It is divided into making processes such as pastry, stuffing mixing, etc. After kneading, it is pasted on the shaft furnace wall and baked. This kind of cake is crisp and sweet, and its volume expands after boiling water, so it is also called "bubble cake". Horseshoe Crisp is a portable food that you like to take when traveling, and it is also a gift for relatives and friends. It is hot and dry, caramel is nutritious, fried with hemp, and it is also a hot tonic for women to "sit on the moon". Before liberation, there were several old shops named Shuanglu, Jinji and Qingchun in Tongan, and the Shuang Hu in Xiamen had a history of 60 or 70 years. At present, several food factories produce horseshoe crisp.
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