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When it comes to buying sugar in Tianjin, everyone will invariably tell you - buy shortbread!
"Where to buy?" "Yang Liuqing!"
Unique memory
Every weekend and festival, Yangliuqing crispy candy will usher in a wave of "heat", and customers who buy shortbread sugar in Yangliuqing are endless, and the streets and alleys emit the sweetness of crispy candy. Many "wanderers" who study and work in other places also remember this unique taste of their hometown.
The past and present lives of willow crisp candy
Yangliu Green Crispy Sugar began with Sun Bao's fortune during the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, and its red fire also experienced a series of twists and turns. Before the liberation, the sale of shortbread mainly relied on the Sun family's old and small children to sell along the street; after liberation, shortbread took advantage of the wave of "noisy production" and ushered in a wave of sales boom, which was in short supply every day; however, the good times were not long, and for a period of time, the shortbread was forced to stop production and was almost out of print, but the shortbread was already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After the reform and opening up, with the help of the government and the sound of people's hopes, Mr. Sun Lao returned to his old business, and Sun Ji crispy sugar dead wood came into being in the spring.
Yangliu green crisp sugar is a craft passed down to the people by the court, from the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty to the present has a history of nearly 200 years. It is worth mentioning that the shortbread has been handed down to this day, and there has always been only one taste - osmanthus flavor.
The mystery of "one bite of crisp, into the mouth"
To say that shortbread, there are all over the country, but Yang Liuqing's shortbread is unique, it is not like other places of shortbread in the shape of "block", its shape is flat oval, the middle sugar is continuous, the entrance is crisp and sweet.
Willow green crisp candy is mainly known for "one bite of crisp, into the mouth". The raw materials for making shortbread are very simple, mainly osmanthus flowers, sesame seeds, sesame oil and white sugar, and the "secret recipe" of its crisp and sweet lies in the production skills and experience of the producer.
The production of crisp sugar is expensive in fine, such as the production of sesame seeds, to go through water, peeling, drying, fire frying, smoke, bran pulling, sieving, rolling and other processes, of which fire frying is very particular about the heat and time, too heavy bitter, too light and not fragrant. The grasp of heat and time is a cumulative experience.
The secret of the shortbread "crisp" is to boil the sugar drawing, don't look at the thin piece of shortbread, but it has 128 layers, can draw more than 2,000 pieces. Boiling sugar drawing on the requirements of the heat is higher, the temperature must be controlled between 60 ° C -70 ° C to draw, the number of layers of wire drawing, the number of silk affects the taste of "crisp", more layer, less layer is difficult to achieve the taste.
The willow green shortbread for sale, each piece is about half two, pinch a piece of shortbread, the whole is sent to the mouth, gently bite down, the mouth is full of osmanthus and sesame aromas. Visit relatives and friends, go out to play, and carry a box of sweet willow crisp candy.
Do not forget the original intention, a hundred years of perseverance
In 2009, Yangliu Qing crisp sugar was included in the list of the first batch of representative intangible cultural heritage projects in Xiqing District.
It is understood that there are not many Yang Liuqing making shortbread today, and there are only two shortbread making families. Xu Ji crisp candy is one of them. Xu Shengrui, the fourth generation of Xu Ji shortbread, has been committed to optimizing the quality of shortbread, and it has always been his wish to carry forward Xu Ji shortbread. For thousands of years, the quality of Yangliu qing crisp candy has been constantly upgraded and changed, and what has not changed is the original intention of making sugar and selling sugar and the adherence to this century-old brand name!