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The golden skin is stained with sesame seeds, and it looks almost burnt, but in fact, the heat is just right, and it is very tempting to see the color and appearance. It tastes crispy and delicious, the outside is burnt and tender, the mouth is full of slag, I want to catch it with my other hand, and eat the slag that has fallen, I am reluctant to waste, that slag is more delicious, crispy, will you eat the burnt cake like this?
This is the famous "Huangqiao Baked Cake", which I ate in Taizhou, a small shop in a small alley, and the freshly baked baked cake was really delicious. Huangqiao baked cake is one of the characteristic snacks of Jiangsu Province, the origin is Huangqiao Town, Taixing City, Taizhou, so it is called Huangqiao Baked Cake. This baked cake is not the same as the common baked cake in the north, with a filling, small size, and looks more like the kind of dim sum "wife cake".
Huangqiao baked cake has a long history, is an ancient traditional snack in the Jianghuai area, but also belongs to the Jiangsu cuisine, won the honor of "Chinese national snacks", and as early as the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was selected as China's "state banquet dim sum" to entertain VIPs, the great man also "endorsed" a sentence for the Huangqiao baked cake "Huangqiao baked cake is famous".
Huangqiao baked cake can have such a good reputation on the one hand because the taste and texture of the baked cake conquer people's stomachs, and another important reason is because of a famous battle more than eighty years ago - "Yellow Bridge Decisive Battle". In October 1940, the Battle of Huangqiao was launched in Taixing Huangqiao Town, commanded by Chen and Su, two revolutionary predecessors, at that time on the battlefield, Huangqiao baked cake became the "military food" of the soldiers, and the people of Huangqiao Town opened a stove to bake baked cakes, braved the flames of war to send to the front, and finally won the war, Huangqiao baked cakes made great contributions, but also got special glory, and their reputation was greatly shocked.
Prior to this, Huangqiao baked cake was already a traditional snack in Taixing during the Ming and Qing dynasties. He Xuan, the old master of Huangqiao Town in Taixing during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, wrote eighty volumes of the "History of Rhyme", which is now in the Beijing Library. The book not only records the story of the author's interaction with Gong Zizhen and other great Confucians, but also the interesting things about him and many bakers who exchanged the skills of baking cakes, which shows that huangqiao baked cakes at that time were already an indispensable food in the daily life of ordinary people.
In ancient times, Huangqiao baked cakes would change different fillings according to the season, such as radish shreds, leeks, crab yellow and so on. There are many varieties of modern Huangqiao baked cake fillings, meat and vegetarian dishes, meat floss, ham, shrimp, shallot oil, bean paste, crab yellow, etc., salty and sweet, but the most representative stuffing is "Dragon Tiger Bucket", do you know what is inside the Dragon tiger bucket?
Authentic Huangqiao baked cakes are handmade, the main raw materials are flour, lard, peanut oil, sesame, etc., now all use electric ovens, easy to control the temperature, to ensure that not scorched, not greasy, attractive aroma. The taste of the roasted cakes baked in the previous coal oven should be better, just like our meat sandwich steamed buns in Shaanxi, the taste of the baked cakes baked in the charcoal oven and the electric oven is quite different, but now in order to protect the environment, many cities have banned the use of coal.
So, have you ever been to Taizhou and taixing? Ever eaten Huangqiao Baked Bread? Welcome to leave a message.
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