Kneading dough, plucking embryos, filling, sprinkling hemp, sticking to the stove, Fang Yuexian has been repeating these actions every day for 25 years, and he is making one of Jinhua's most traditional dim sums - shortbread.
Round as a cup, shaped like a crab shell, golden in color and crispy in the mouth, Jinhua shortbread has a unique charm due to its strong aroma and salty aftertaste.
The production process of Jinhua shortbread is very cumbersome and requires more than ten processes to be formed.
After repeated kneading, roll out the flour into the dough, sprinkle with flour and pour in the fragrant rapeseed oil. The dough is baked in layers and crisp.
The filling of the shortbread is made of fine fatty meat and prunes on the pork back. Traditional shortbread comes in both spicy and non-spicy flavors. To make the finished cake blank sprinkled with hemp, shortbreaders used to use different colors of sesame seeds to distinguish the taste of shortbread.
Charcoal is raw in a special oven and the cake blanks are moistened and pasted to the inner wall. The older the stove, the more crispy the baked shortbread becomes.
Sticking to the furnace is a technical task that requires the operator to be skillful, sharp, and able to withstand the hot charcoal fire in the furnace. After baking, stewing and de-quenching, the cake blank becomes fluffy and crispy and emits a seductive aroma during the charcoal fire exercise.
Freshly baked shortbread, the dough is layered, thin as paper, and the crisp is oily and not greasy. Even if it is damp, the crispy aroma remains after baking.
Nowadays, when you walk into the streets and alleys of Jinhua, you can smell the aroma of fresh aging, and shortbread has become an indispensable delicacy for Jinhua people.
With the development of science and technology and society, Jinhua shortbread retains the ancient production process, but also has a modern assembly line, and the taste is more abundant and diverse. For more than a thousand years, the delicacies on the tip of the tongue of the ancestors have been innovated and inherited.
The colorful taste of factory is overwhelming, but the ancient craftsmanship still has irreplaceable value today. In the memory of the old Jinhua people, the unique aroma of shortbread, fat meat and plum vegetables colliding is the taste left by the ancestors, the delicacy passed down from generation to generation, and an indispensable part of the soul of the Jinhua people.
Source: Jinhua Network
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