Chapter 36 The Four Famous Cakes of Eastern Guangdong
This passive skill is extremely useful.
Eating without getting fat is just the most basic function.
As the old saying goes, illness comes from the mouth, which shows that most diseases are closely related to our daily eating habits.
Wei Yi didn't want to be a big fish and meat every day, causing a sudden illness one day and dying young.
This possibility is not high, that is, Wei Yi's diet has always been eaten in moderation, and he never overeats.
But what if you get hit?
With this passive skill, he can ensure that Wei Yi does not have any worries about eating.
Wei Yi was in a good mood, went out to forage for food, and started a new day of visiting the store.
Wei Yi drove to the snack street, ready to find snacks to try.
When there is no specific goal, Wei Yi will leave the task of finding food to his senses.
What he sees with his eyes, smells with his nose, and what he hears with his ears can all be used as his options for visiting stores.
Wei Yi seemed to be walking aimlessly on the retro streets of the snack street, and suddenly, a rich and attractive fragrance entered his nostrils, unconsciously mobilizing the gluttonous worms in his stomach.
It smells so good!
It feels right!
That's it!
Wei Yi followed the smell and found a stall selling chicken cakes.
The stall is filled with chicken patties, which look like a cookie that has been shaped rather casually.
Chicken cake is one of the four famous cakes in eastern Guangdong, because it is shaped like a chick, so it is called chicken cake.
Wei Yi scanned the code to pay and packed three chicken cakes, and then turned on the mobile phone video mode, there was no seat, so he had to stand by the stall to eat.
Naturally, you don't need to be so particular about eating a snack, you can eat it while standing.
So, Wei Yi held the mobile phone in his left hand and switched to selfie mode, pinched the chicken cake wrapped in a plastic bag with his right hand, and put it into his mouth to take a bite, and there was a 'gurgling' sound in his mouth, and the strong fragrance rushed out like a flood that broke the embankment, and after a few bites, it was as if a spice library was detonated, and the compound aroma burst out from the filling, so thick that it could not be dissolved, until it entered the stage of deep chewing, and gradually distinguished the spice of garlic, the sweetness of southern milk, the burnt aroma of nuts, and the sweetness of ice meat......
The rich flavor of the chicken cake made Wei Yi, who tasted it for the first time, feel extremely amazing.
There are two ingredients in the chicken patty that are the essence of it.
One is the southern milk, which is the red bean curd, which has a rich taste and is slightly sweet, which is the main theme of the taste of chicken cakes.
Many foods in Cantonese cuisine use southern milk, which not only has a sweet smell, but also has a coloring effect.
The other is ice meat, which tastes like lard, but it is not lard, not only does it taste fat but not greasy, but has a refreshing and crispy texture.
Ice meat is made of pork fat, although it is a fat meat material but can not be casual, for example, we often use to boil lard net oil is not suitable, to choose a clean and complete piece of pork fat cut into fine dices, and then mixed with liquor and sugar, marinated and refrigerated for 20 days to achieve the best effect of sweet and crisp.
In addition, the nutty aroma in the chicken cake is also indispensable, peanuts, walnuts, melon seeds, etc. are cut into small kernel pieces, and the sesame seeds are thoroughly mixed together.
In order to make the taste more layered, pepper and allspice powder are also added, but the taste of spices is only a passing one, and people in eastern Guangdong have never advocated letting the taste of spices overshadow the original taste of food.
Before baking in the oven, brush the surface with a thin layer of egg wash to give the surface a smooth and oily color.
The grilled chicken patty is fragrant and crispy, and every time you chew it, the rich and complex aroma bursts out in the mouth, and occasionally the ice meat blooms between the teeth, and it is not greasy, only the sweet aroma of lard.
Several aromas are layered on top of each other, becoming the unique mellow taste of the chicken cake, and also giving it the magic that people will never forget when they eat it.
It's actually quite simple, just mixing the materials together to produce such an amazing effect.
Wei Yi savoured the sweet and crispy chicken patty, its flavor was layered and deep.
It wasn't until Wei Yi finished eating the three chicken cakes that the delicious aftertaste hidden between his teeth, under his tongue, and at the corners of his mouth was still radiating and lingering for a long time.
After slowing down for a while, Wei Yicai put away his phone, went to the drink shop next to him, and bought a cup of lemon tea to drink.
I am a little reluctant to dilute the residual fragrance in my mouth.
After half a cup of lemon tea, Wei Yi felt half full.
Since I have visited the store today, one of the four famous cakes, chicken cakes, another well-known famous cake wife cake, naturally can't be missed.
Wei Yi had eaten his wife's cake before, but it was not freshly made, it was produced by the assembly line in the factory workshop.
If it comes out of the assembly line, the taste must not be as good as the freshly made.
Wei Yi walked down the snack street, and it didn't take much effort to find a stall selling wife cakes.
still scanned the code and bought three wife.
Obviously, there is no wife in the wife's cake, and the single dogs still die of this heart.
There are many allusions and legends about the wife cake, the earliest can be traced back to the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's wife Ma is the creator of the ancestor wife cake.
More recently, it is said that in Guangdong, there is a time-honored teahouse founded in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, which is famous for its various dim sum and cakes.
One day, a dim sum chef from Chaozhou in the teahouse brought all kinds of signature refreshments home for his wife to eat. ”
After hearing this, the master was naturally not convinced, so he asked his wife to make 'winter melon horns' for him to taste.
His wife used winter melon puree, sugar, and flour to make a browned and unique 'winter melon corner', and the Chaozhou master ate it, and the flavor was really sweet and delicious, and he couldn't help but praise his wife's dim sum.
The next day, the Chaozhou master brought the 'winter melon corner' back to the teahouse for everyone to taste, but the teahouse owner was full of praise after eating, and asked who made the dim sum in which teahouse, and the masters said: "It was made by the Chaozhou wife." ”
So the boss casually said that this was "Chaozhou wife cake", and asked the Chaozhou master to improve it and sell it in the teahouse, which was well received.
Hence the name of the wife's cake.
Wei Yiyi gourd painting scoop in one hand holding a mobile phone video, the other hand holding the skin baked into a tempting golden wife cake, the outer skin layer by layer of puff pastry as thin as cotton paper crispy and soft, a bite down a lot of crumbs will fall into the bag, the filling is moist and soft and melts in the mouth, every bite can taste the sweet taste of honey.
The skin is thin and the filling is thick, sweet but not greasy, except that there is no wife's regret in it, it is really delicious.
After solving the wife's cake, Wei Yi didn't even let go of the crumbs in the plastic bag, and carefully poured them into his mouth to eat, without wasting them at all.