Golden silk wrapped gourd

Xuzhou cuisine is famous for its drawing skills. "Gourd wrapped with gold thread", that is, pulled-silk hawthorn cake, is a great stunt of Pengmen Xuzhou kitchen clan system. It is unique in its beauty and has been flourishing for a long time since ancient times, which is beyond the reach of other cuisines and won the appreciation of Chinese and foreign guests. This dish is named because of its pictographs. Its raw material is osmanthus and hawthorn cake. Sweet-scented osmanthus hawthorn cake is made of hawthorn, sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus sauce, which is a specialty of Xuzhou and has been rated as a national famous brand product. The production of hawthorn cake has a long history and high skill in Xuzhou. "Tongshan County Records" records: "The natives grind the hawthorn into a paste, and use it as a paste, which is called the hawthorn cake." There was also a poem "Chanting Hawthorn Cake" that praised: "Red is like vermilion dyed like crystal, and the color is like coral. Jingui is fragrant and fruity, and it tastes like body fluid. " This dish is characterized by sweet and sour taste, golden thread winding, inextricably linked and interesting, and has the effects of eliminating food stagnation, removing blood stasis, stopping dysentery and resisting bacteria. Someone wrote a poem for this dish, saying, "It's more beautiful than a pearl to pay for a jade plate. Thousands of threads are ingenious, and longevity is like Xia Dan.
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