The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and in the past few days, the villagers of Nanling Town, Jincheng, Shanxi Province have set up stoves in the small courtyard of their farmhouses and began to make Mid-Autumn Festival special food - firewood moon cakes. Let's take a look at the local practice.
Firewood mooncakes are handmade and have been used in the local area for more than 400 years. A piece of dough is kneaded, kneaded, kneaded, pressed and other processes, and after a while, it becomes a round cake. Then sprinkle the mooncake filling with peanuts and walnuts on the dough cake in advance, cover the double-layer cake and compact, and then use different patterns of stamps to print various patterns and shapes on the surface of the mooncake, and finally paint a special "red juice" to decorate the color.
According to the villagers, the "red juice" is boiled with persimmons, and the taste is sweet when applied to the moon cakes, representing the sweetness of life.
Firewood moon cakes, as the name suggests, are moon cakes baked with firewood, and the baked moon cakes are mixed with the unique smoky fruit and wood aroma of firewood, and the taste is unique. Compared with ordinary mooncakes, firewood mooncakes are larger, with the largest diameter of 80 cm and the smallest of 17 cm. The five moon cakes are a set, representing a bumper harvest and five blessings. Nowadays, firewood mooncakes are not only the inheritance of local cuisine and traditional culture, but also loved by consumers.
Lanzhou, Gansu: "Sugar and oil pot helmet" soil moon cakes are selling hot
In Lanzhou, Gansu Province, there is a kind of earth moon cake called "sugar oil pot helmet" also ushered in the sales season, and every morning, there will be a long queue in front of the local time-honored brand.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and at this time-honored sugar and oil pot helmet shop in the vegetable market on Zhangye Road in Lanzhou City, at three o'clock in the morning every day, the pastry chefs in the store begin to make the local moon cakes sold that day. At 7 a.m., a long line began to form outside the store.
The sugar and oil pot helmet is a unique "soil moon cake" in Lanzhou, with a unique filling, the sugar and oil pot helmet just out of the pot is golden on both sides, fragrant, crispy and soft, sweet but not greasy.
Peng Miao, the operator of a sugar oil pot helmet shop in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, said: "The noodles are all old fermented noodles, which have to be fermented for 12 hours, and the noodles are added with Gansu's unique bitter beans to enhance the flavor. The rose filling is made of candied roses from Lanzhou Yongdeng bitter water, which is very traditional in Lanzhou. ”
Kunming, Yunnan: The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the demand for seafood and aquatic products has increased
The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the demand for all kinds of seafood and aquatic products is strong, what is the price? Let's take a look at the reporter's visit to the Kunming market in Yunnan.
In the past two days, the seafood stalls in the Kunming Farmers' Market have a booming business, with bamboo shrimp, salmon, king crab, grouper, and hairy crabs are also indispensable.
In addition to the hairy crabs in season, the most sold are the Kei Wai shrimp, which are generally priced at 70 to 80 yuan per kilogram. Due to the proximity of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the price of Jiwei shrimp has risen in September, and the rise has been more obvious this week.
At another farmers' seafood market, the price of salmon sashimi has risen by about 20 yuan per kilogram.
Among the many seafoods, the prices of flower nails and snails are currently relatively stable, and they are expected to increase slightly before the holiday this Saturday.