The ancient city of Zhoucun, majestic in Luzhong, was called sanqi town in ancient times. In the past, "mulberry plants are full of fields, every household raises silkworms, step by step, the sound of machines, and every family weaves silk", and Suzhou and Hangzhou silk and beauty Shenzhou. Therefore, Zhoucun Avenue, the silk market flourishes, silk trade, runs through the east and west, walks the end of the world, dances for a thousand years, known as the first end of the ancient Silk Road, the wharf of the dry land for a thousand years. By the way, the goods of the world are gathered here, the merchants and merchants are prosperous in the world, and the folk customs are simple, the handsome masters are born, the humanities are rising, the Qianlong Southern Tour, and the royal pen personally gives the "first village under the world".
In the late Qing Dynasty, Guangxu, Zhoucun opened as a commercial port, and merchants gathered and became more and more prosperous. Fireworks are scaled, spring shells are filled, nichijin doujin, driving the provincial wall. Xizhou Village Street, industrial and commercial development, prosperity of the city, department stores, business travel, cars and horses spokes, trade booming, people called: Jinzhou Village.
After a hundred years, wind and rain, Zhoucun Street, gray brick Daiwa, still the style, Canggu Gaohua, magnificent and magnificent. The old branches are new and spring, and the old wood is glorious again in the spring. Along the curved lane through the memories of the rise and fall of the past, shunshi road forward to recall the commercial development, the blocks are longitudinal, the shops are still lined up, the street is more innovative, walking in the middle, through the millennium ancient city, a century-old commercial port, reminiscing about the past.
The ancient city of Zhoucun is not only prosperous in industry and commerce, but also famous for its ancient cuisine. Zhoucun boiling pot, a hundred years of history, Gong Li, Ge You once tasted; spiced chicken, tender skin rotten meat, lips and teeth left fragrant; marinade lamb, fragrant, delicious and clear mouth and famous... However, those who are famous all over the world are none other than Zhoucun Baked Cakes.
Zhoucun baked cake, passed down for a hundred years, is called big shortbread by locals. This cake originated in the Han Dynasty and was made in the late Qing Dynasty. The Silk Road, from zhoucun to Tianzhu, Persia, the Mediterranean, the goods bribed through the yixia, and Persian merchants through the vast Gobi desert, against the journey, with noodle cakes to come, through the wind and frost but not dry, through the heat and not rotten, so it came to Zhou village. It is called "beard cake".
Subsequently, it was developed for several generations, abandoning the thickness and thinning, reducing the weight by two, changing to stickers and baking, and gradually becoming a prototype, with the name of large shortbread. Guangxu six years, the aggregation of the shop, dedicated to research, Guo's descendants, and improved, fragrant crisp, like feather flakes, and finally become today's Zhou Village baked cake also.
The burnt cake has become a success, the fame is a moment, the population is popular, so a hundred families are admired, once hand-picked tributes to Jinjing, but also into the homes of ordinary people, poor to fill the hunger, rich and noble to taste. It is a delicacy for all ages, a gift from relatives and friends.
Zhoucun baked cake, divided into sweet and salty two kinds, harvest golden autumn new wheat, grinding powder like frost, take the water of the spring, sweet cake with sugar, salty cake with salt, and for soft noodles. Slightly kneading agent, rub into a circle, dip in water one by one, spin into a flat shape, with the hand to roll outward, until as thin as a cicada wing, that is, into a raw cake blank. Swirl the cake blank, gently lift it, put it into a container full of sesame seeds, dip it in sesame seeds, quickly lift it, put it on the back of your hand, send it into the hearth, bake it slowly, and cover the back with crisp holes, golden in color, and take a long shovel to shovel it out. Zhoucun baked cake began to be completed.
Take a cake, fine and detailed, the shape of the round body is thin, round like the morning sun, the skin is golden, the crisp holes are everywhere, the sesame seeds are inlaid in between, thin as paper, light as a leaf, the old man once used to refer to the dried poplar leaf, holding up a dozen, crisp and sound, like the wind through the leaves, if you lose your hand and land on the ground, don "pearls scattered jade fragments" also. Slightly sniffing and tapping, the smell is delicious and fragrant. Taste it, or salty and fresh abnormal or sweet as honey, feel the gift of heaven and earth, and feel the fragrance of grains.
Wang Laohu: A thousand-year-old city, a century-old commercial port, the passage of time, the charm is still the same; Zhoucun baked cake, holding on to ruobi, cherishing the gui, following the ancient and the present, the fame is far and wide! Oh, the ancient city of Zhoucun has become more prosperous, and the Zhoucun baked cake has been fragrant for thousands of years!
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