Obviously, there are no special ingredients this time, but this time Zhao Shen is going to make a snack. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Snacks are naturally a relatively ordinary type, but it is not easy to make a small **, this time Zhao Shen is going to make an ordinary baked cake.

According to historical research, the baked cake was brought from the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty. There is a record in the "Book of the Continuation of the Han Dynasty": "The Spirit Emperor is a good Hu cake." ”

Hu cake is the earliest baked cake, which was popular in the Tang Dynasty. 〈Information Governance Tongjian. Xuanzong records: In the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei fled to Xianyang Jixian Palace, and Yang Guozhong, who was the prime minister, went to the market to buy Hu cakes and present.

At that time, Chang'an was famous for making flax cakes, and the first store called Fuxingfang was recommended. For this reason, the poet Bai Juyi wrote a poem saying: "The flax cake is like learning from Kyoto, and the noodles are crispy and fragrant. Sent to the hungry ambassador Yang, it tasted like a supplement. ”

It is said that the cake bought in Xianyang is not like the flax cake of Chang'an Fuxingfang. The method of flax cake is to take clear powder, sesame five-spice salt flour clear oil, alkaline flour, sugar, etc. as raw and auxiliary materials, ferment the dough, add crisp flavor, knead molding, brush sugar color, stick sesame seeds, and bake in the oven, so Bai Juyi said "the dough is crispy and fragrant". This method is similar to that of modern pancakes.

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There are many varieties of baked cakes, including flatbread, scones, Jinyun baked cakes, lake ditch baked cakes, sesame baked cakes, shortbread baked cakes, shortbread baked cakes, dough piles, slag baked cakes, sugar sesame sauce baked cakes, oven dry baked cakes, cylinder stove baked cakes, Rose turn baked cakes, crispy meat fire, assorted baked cakes, oven zongzi, Du Chengqi fire, beef tongue cakes and so on more than 100 patterns.

There is also a legend about the baked cake that Zhao Shen is going to make.

Legend has it that when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled to occupy Daze Township, the nearby farmers heard the news and took out food to comfort them. The aunt who sent the baked cakes, because of nervousness, the baked cakes were not completely delivered to the hands of the horseback soldiers, fell to the ground, and fell into several pieces.

So this pancake has another name, 'water chestnut cake'. Although it is an ordinary cake in the countryside, the method is very exquisite. The finest flour is made from wheat harvested by abundant local rain, so that the dough is elastic and has a good color.

Mix the flour into a dough of moderate firmness, coat with oil and let it sit for an hour. Choose the best donkey oil, add chopped green onions, salt flowers, and mix into accessories. Donkey oil can increase the crispiness of the cake. Lard and donkey fat are similar, and later due to the scarcity of donkey fat was replaced by lard, the small dough is rolled into an oval row, rolled with lard paste, rolled into an oval, sprinkled with local white sesame seeds, pasted in a special local oven, and it can be freshly baked in 2 minutes.

This cake is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, with many layers, and a skilled master can make more than 30 layers. It's all translucent to the sun. Looking at it this way, the cake is a complete work of art. It looks good, and it tastes good, too.

Take a bite, full of fragrance, with our local big bowl of Hugou oil tea, it is really to Hugou.

Another version of the legend is that a long time ago, the daughter of a large family had a strange disease, and suddenly one day she became disgusted with food, and she had no appetite for anything, and she felt nauseous at the sight of food. When he saw his emaciated daughter, the rich man was so anxious that he put up a notice saying that he would give 20 taels of silver to anyone who could cure his daughter's illness.

As a result, many doctors came, but none of them had a choice. So he had no choice but to post notices everywhere again, and increase the honorarium from 20 taels to 50 taels and 100 taels, and finally until half of the family property, he still couldn't do it.

Later, a poor lad who was herding cattle came, and was willing to give it a try, on the condition that he would marry the eldest lady, for he had admired the young lady for a long time, and he did not have a wife. At first, the rich man naturally would not agree, and it was not until a few days later that his daughter fainted again and again, and he relented and agreed to this request.

So the young man made a lot of these baked cakes, cured the young lady's illness, and won the young lady's heart through his own diligence and craftsmanship. Later, the rich man repented, and the young man eloped with the young lady, fled to the ditch, and started a baked cake business for generations.

And with the continuous expansion of the business, during the New Year and festivals, they will always make some other noodle soup to help the poor in their spare time when they are making baked cakes, which is the famous Hugou baked cake and Hugou oil tea in the future.

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And eating "Hugou Baked Cake" should be matched with authentic oil tea to be more flavorful.

Of course, Camellia oleifera is not tea, and there is no tea leaves. It is another famous snack in Hugou, a soup made with gluten, thousand zhang, peanuts, black sesame seeds, and various other ingredients.

Gluten should be made of flour in repeated kneading, a fist-sized piece of gluten is about to use dozens of pots of water, kneading for more than an hour, thousands of sheets should be broken and sticky, peanuts should be fragrant but not burnt, and sesame seeds should be black. In the past, when I was young, I always pestered adults to drink a few bowls every time I went to the market, and oil tea was something that only happened in the morning like baked cakes in Hugou.

But this time, the focus of Zhao Shen's preparation was only to burn the cake, and he was not ready to make the oil tea.

"System, is there a donkey?" Zhao Shen said.

Although the cost of donkey oil is very high, lard can also be used instead, but Zhao Shen is not ready to use lard, and there is still a certain difference between lard and donkey fat to make baked cakes.

Kitchen God System: "What donkey?" ”

"Donkey, oil will do." Zhao Shen said.

Zhao Shen gave up and continued to laugh at the system, he was afraid that the system would be excited, and he would really get a little donkey out of his shop.

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The system did not reply to Zhao Shen again, but directly popped up the forced exchange system, and one of the columns inside was donkey oil.

When the donkey oil is taken out, it is not condensed donkey oil, but it has been melted and can be used directly to make it, although I don't know what breed of donkey it is, but Zhao Shen can be sure that this donkey must live better than him, otherwise how can even the fat on the body have a faint fragrance.

"This donkey oil is produced by the donkey named Poitou, and the English name Baudet de Poito is a relatively rare donkey breed, and there are less than 1,000 of them left in the world. It can reach up to 8 feet tall, making it larger than most horses. ”

"In France, the donkey dates back to the Middle Ages, and until the mid-20th century, they were very popular servants, and later mechanization caused them to retire from the stage. A 1977 survey found only 44 living Baudet de Poitou. ……”

"Stop, stop, stop...... I know this donkey is better than me! Zhao Shen interrupted the system.