#Selfie My Story #My name is Ren Honglin, 43 years old this year, is the eighth generation of rencheng Wenxi boiled cake inheritor of Wenxi County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, adhering to the authentic secret book of the Ren family, adhering to the brand positioning of "cooking cake family, century-old inheritance", combined with modern healthy nutrition concept, using advanced production equipment, producing a new generation of Rencheng brand Wenxi boiled cake with both traditional flavor and modern nutritional characteristics.
Wenxi boiled cake is a kind of Traditional Han Cake, which is produced in Wenxi County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, and is known as the "King of Shanxi Cake Points". Wenxi boiled cake is a folk dim sum in southern Jinnan; because the folk of Jinnan call "fried" "boiled", it is actually a kind of fried dim sum. Wenxi boiled cake began in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years
My Rencheng Cake Workshop was established in 1993, and in 2010, it invested more than 23 million yuan to build a new factory, with more than 130 employees and an annual production capacity of more than 6,000 tons of Wenxi. Now the main product is "Rencheng" brand Wenxi boiled cake. There are also more than 20 kinds of "Hai Shi Weier", "Dong Wu Ya" and "Mini @ Egg Fu" brand series of food.
This old man in a robe, called Ren Chengyi is my grandfather, in 1813, on the basis of family skills, he developed a new recipe, coupled with unique craftsmanship, to make the best food of the year, became the most famous food in Shanxi "Wenxi Boiled Cake", also known as "The Best of Chinese Pastries".
According to legend, when the Kangxi Emperor went out to tour the path wenxi, the gentry of Wenxi chose a famous teacher to rule the banquet in order to welcome the holy car; during the banquet, the emperor felt that the other dishes were light and tasteless, only the cooked cake tasted unique, the aftertaste was long, and could not help but ask its name; all the officials and eunuchs searched for dry intestines, and they all wanted to take an auspicious name to please the emperor, but because the emperor suddenly asked questions, he could not help but be speechless for a while; the emperor saw this situation and laughed and said: Just call it boiled cake. As a result, the Wenxi boiled cake named by the Kangxi Emperor became famous and has been passed down to this day.
According to records, boiled cakes have become famous in the late Ming Dynasty, and have been exported to Tianjin, Beijing, Xi'an, Jinan, Kaifeng, Taiyuan, Chengdu, Guangzhou and other major cities, famous throughout the country. It was once listed as a tribute; it is now a popular food for all ages.
Because wenxi boiled cake has many advantages such as crispy sand, sweet but not greasy, long-term non-deterioration, more chewy and more fragrant, it has now become a choice for tourists to travel to Shanxi and give gifts to relatives and friends (Mr. Lu Xun once wrote in the novel "The Lonely One": "I carry two packs of wenxi boiled cakes to see friends."). ）。
Wenxi boiled cake is delicious, I will tell you the method, first steam the flour on the steamer, dry, knead, and then mix in caramel (also known as syrup), honey, sesame oil, brown sugar, put some water, baking soda and raw flour, and knead the ingredients into a dough.
Then add sesame oil to the pan and heat. Roll the dough into small dough, knead the dough by hand into a ball the size of a pigeon's egg, then dip it in water and drain. Put the dough into a frying pan and fry over medium heat for about 3 minutes, then remove when the crust is date-red.
Then on fire, add honey, sugar and caramel to the pot, simmer for 10 minutes to make honey juice, and wait until you can pull up the filaments. Soak the fried pancakes in the honey juice for about 2 minutes and remove them. Put in the cooked sesame seeds and tumble so that the sesame seeds stick evenly to the top of the cooked cake, and it is done.
Rich in protein, vegetable fat, sugar and mineral elements such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, Wenxi boiled cake is a high-grade nutritious food with nourishing and fitness effects.
Since I picked up the ancestral cooking cake, based on Shanxi to look at the whole country, in the traditional production process, and make more varieties, especially loved by the southerners, there are many Chinese people to take the boiled cake as a gift to bring abroad, now many people in our village are learning to make boiled cakes here, many people have also got rich by making boiled cakes. Photo: Zhang Dan, Liu Hongbing