Su-style pastries are a collective name for the special pastries produced in Suzhou City and surrounding areas in Jiangsu Province, and their fillings are mostly made of nuts, diced pork plate oil, and fragrant with osmanthus flowers and roses, and the taste is heavy and sweet. Its representative varieties include Su-style mooncakes and lard rice cakes. Su-style pastries occupy an important position in the history of the development of traditional Chinese pastries and are one of the main forms of traditional Chinese pastries. According to relevant historical materials, Su-style pastries sprouted in the Spring and Autumn Period, originated in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, formed in the Two Song Dynasties, developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, inherited, carried forward and innovated in modern times.
First, Su-style pastries are indispensable mascots and embellishments in etiquette. When a baby is born or shaves his head for the first time, he should send cloud cakes, symbolizing auspicious cloud pieces; the elderly wish for their birthdays, send birthday cakes and peaches; for wedding feasts, they should send jujube mud cakes, eight treasure lotus seed soup or hawthorn sweet cakes; even building houses, moving houses, and doing funerals, they must also beg for color and send cakes and snacks. Suzhou people pay great attention to seasonality and freshness in eating pastries, such as lunar new moon wine stuffed cakes, February snow cakes, March Min cakes, April mung bean cakes, May mint cakes, June generous cakes, July qiao crisps, August mooncakes... Renovation month by month.
Second, Su-style candy is well-known in China, there are more than 150 varieties of bright goods, fried goods, fudge, special taste 4 categories, such as pine nut candy, zongzi sugar, peanut candy, three-color pine nut fudge, crisp pine candy, pine nut jujube sugar and so on. Su-style candy looks cute, sweet but not greasy.
Su-style pastries are known for their sweetness, pine, glutinousness and toughness, which can be described as a major feature of Suzhou's diet.
Third, the bottom of the socks crisp selection ingredients, exquisite workmanship. When using the puff pastry and dough, knead it five or six times until it is completely even, so that the baked shortbread can be thinly transparent and crunchy and refreshing to eat
4. Jujube mud cake is a traditional Chinese famous spot, a Su-style pastry. The main feature of the hemp cake is soft glutinous. It is prepared with an appropriate amount of flour, caramel, eggs, raw oil, baking soda, mixed into a ball, added steamed and mashed black date paste, cooked lard, pine nuts, melon seeds, sugar osmanthus flowers, etc., and baked in the hearth wall of 150-180 ° C. Sweet and delicious, with a unique flavor.
Fifth, almond crisp is one of the characteristic traditional snacks, the main raw materials are high gluten flour, medium flour. Almond pastry, also known as peach crisp, is an important variety of Su-style pastry. All are made of almonds ground into flour, mixed with some flour and coordinated proportions of sugar, oil, eggs, so that the product obtains a strong almond flavor, fragrant pine and delicious.
Sixth, lard hibiscus crisp form: the block shape is complete, the noodles and bottom are flat. Color: light yellow with sugar and roses on the surface. Tissue: fried through without stiffness, sugar stain plate oil diced evenly distributed, no impurities. Taste: Rosin refreshing, fat and sweet pure, no peculiar smell.
7. Dafang Cake (Su-style) is one of the traditional specialty pastries in Jiangsu, with the characteristics of thin skin and heavy filling, white color, hot steaming supply and so on. The product is seasonal, generally listed in the Qingming Dynasty, and the Dragon Boat Festival. There are sweet and salty points, and the sweetness is rose, fruit, mint, bean paste four-color square cake; salty has fresh meat square cake.
8. Cashew crisp is one of the refreshments provided by Daoxiang Village for the Olympic Games, which is a delicate round snack filled with sweet potato filling and a cashew nut on the surface. The texture is crisp and fragrant, and the slight onion in the filling reduces some of the sweetness and makes the product taste more unique; the surface is decorated with cashew nuts, and the curved cashew nuts are embedded in the smooth golden surface, like a smiling face, welcoming athletes from all over the world.
