Caolu sesame seed cake

Straw stove sesame seed cake, as its name implies, is made of firewood as fuel. This is very different from the production of barrel furnace sesame cakes smoked and baked with charcoal fire. The fuel of Chahe straw stove sesame seed cake is Qi Xiao wheat straw, which is not suitable for other fire grasses, because Qi Xiao wheat straw has good toughness, and even if it is burnt to ashes, it can keep straight and bulky, which is convenient for stewing and easy to raise fire. It is one of its characteristics that the fire is soft and soft, and the sesame cake is cooked inside but not burnt outside. The materials used in the grass stove sesame seed cake are quite particular. Every 100 kilograms of flour needs 15 kilograms of raw fat oil, 2 kilograms of sugar, 7-8 kilograms of shelled sesame seeds, 40 kilograms of radish (or 20 kilograms of leek) and a little onion and pepper. Generally speaking, shredded radish is used as stuffing in autumn and winter, and leeks are used as stuffing in spring and summer. Its production process and technical requirements are higher: 80-degree hot water is needed for dough mixing, and the hardness is moderate. If it is too soft, it is easy to "hang face" (fall into the furnace), and it is too hard and not easy to be cooked, and the entrance is not crisp enough. The size and thickness of cake blanks must be consistent, so that they can be arranged neatly in the furnace and cooked at the same time. The furnace is made of a small sand jar with a diameter of 1.56, which is placed horizontally on a brick bench with a height of more than 4 feet, like a big clock without a clock face. No matter whether it is cold or hot, the oven-pasting master always wears a boat-shaped hat "shirtless" when pasting sesame cakes (sleeveless cotton-padded jacket in winter). First, he makes a fire in the furnace with a straw stalk, and then he stuffs a bundle of wheat straw. After heating the furnace, he picks up the unburned straw stalk with a steel fork and puts it in the furnace. Then, the flame is quenched, and every two cakes are spread on the palm of his hand and pasted into the furnace respectively. After plastering, use a steel fork to stir the grass embers and gently tilt them up and down, so that the flame can be revived. At this time, the person who smokes and bakes the hearth is called a face fire. It is appropriate to master the face fire, and it is not appropriate to be too big or too small. Generally, when the cake surface is crab shell yellow and fragrant, the operator holds a steel shovel with a long handle in one hand and a wire fence with a long handle as big as a basin in the other hand, and shovels down the baked sesame seed cake and takes it out of the oven. The baked sesame seed cake is fragrant and crisp, and many people buy it now and eat it now, which is especially delicious.
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