Shaanxi people, koshiki mirror cake Zhen cake cut cake cake sugar cake fried cake, can you tell the difference?
In the entire Guanzhong region, koshi cake and zhen cake often refer to one thing, that is, glutinous rice, kidney beans, red dates are superimposed in layers and steamed with koshiki, Shaanxi pronunciation will be 甑 (zeng zeng) often pronounced as japonica or mirror, that is, the origin of the "mirror cake" in Guanzhong province and Xifu region, the official name in Shaanxi cuisine is koshi cake. A good cake must have more dates and more beans, and the entire glutinous rice layer is dyed red to be applauded, and because of this feature, it can only be eaten in a bowl.
Koshiki cakes common in supermarkets
Roadside stalls with cakes
In Xi'an, there is a small round cake called mirror cake, if the shape is as small as a mirror, it is also round as a mirror, and the thickness is not a finger. When eating, use forked bamboo skewers to hold in your hand, dip various powders, such as sugar, sesame seeds, peanut crushed, etc., and some with green and red silk, brown sugar filling, roses, etc., and order a few beans on the surface to make a bagua shape. The exquisite mirror cake is also called the eight treasure mirror cake because of the eight ingredients used.
Over the years, many supermarkets and Shaanxi-style restaurants in Shaanxi have sold new koshiki cakes, but the rice jujube beans are obviously layered, and the top row of large dates, the glutinous rice layer is very solid, which is different from the tradition of Dongfu Xifu, but it is very similar to Guanzhong cake (also called cut cake). The cake is a layered compaction of glutinous rice and dates, steamed in advance into strips or rounds, about the same height as a water cup, cut into diamond-shaped columns and placed on the steaming drawer for sale, because it is relatively dense, directly with a wooden stick inserted in the hand to eat will not fall apart. The difference between the cake (Xi'an more called cut cake) and the cake is that the cake is dense and can be held in the hand, and the jujube is less rice and generally does not put beans, so the cold cake will be a little hard, so be sure to buy a heated one. Xi'an also has a kind of gourmet osmanthus cake, which is similar to this practice, the color of yellow orange and orange comes from the powder, layered with date paste, and drizzled with osmanthus syrup.
Shaanxi people like to correct others that they can't call oil cakes sugar cakes, which is actually for a reason. Sugar cake and oil cake in the same as the noodles add sugar, but the sugar cake filling is generally made of white sugar or brown sugar, when out of the pot to bite a small bite of the sugar juice flowing out, the filling of the oil cake is relatively rich, generally there will be sesame seeds, peanuts, bean paste, osmanthus sugar, green and red silk and so on. In addition, Henan people generally call this snack sugar cake, Shaanxi people call it oil cake, and the process is the same.
Baoji was once famous for "chewing crisp" is also a kind of sugar cake (but do not put sugar or less sugar), the origin is said to be in the Qing Dynasty Xianfeng period, said that Baoji at that time there was a person named Bald Baby, invented a snack, named "Click, take it to eat crispy, and will make a "click ~ click rub ~ " sound and get its name. In recent years, the master who originally learned the craft has opened a private restaurant in ChenCang Old Street, taking a nice name and changing it to tea crisp, and it is said that the secret of the crisp is to add pork plate oil and japanese noodles.
The bubble cake making craft developed on the basis of oil cake has been selected as an intangible cultural heritage, and Baoji has been unseen in recent years, and is a famous product of the Tang Dynasty court recorded in the history books. It is said that Tang Taizong Li Shimin once he went hunting, the eunuch found a nearby fried oil cake shop for the emperor to make oil cakes to eat, the oil cake shop owner heard that it was for the emperor to make, a nervous, and noodles put more oil, did not expect to get a big bubble, brought to the table, Taizong has not had time to eat, a gust of wind blows, broken, the little eunuch clever, quickly said: "Auspicious omen, the years are safe!" "Since then, the name of seeing the wind has been lost.
In addition, Shaanxi also has fried cakes, that is, fried glutinous rice cakes, which are mostly found in restaurants, such as pumpkin glutinous rice cakes; noodle shops also have a variety of yellow rice, rice cakes are also very delicious; Qishan also has two kinds of dim sum, dumplings and mouth puff pastry as gifts are quite popular. In order to make the cakes cater to more people's tastes over the years, many restaurants in Xi'an have not only the original taste of dates, but also the flavor of millet purple potatoes, rose brown sugar, and wuren osmanthus flower flavor and other cake products.