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Chinese pay attention to the "four hours and three festivals", eat rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival, eat mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, wrap dumplings during the Spring Festival, and cook the Lantern on the Yuan. Near the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes began to sell well, mooncakes are one of the traditional Chinese customs of pastries, China is vast, many ethnic groups, a small mooncake also due to different regions and produce different practices and tastes, these 5 recognized delicious mooncakes, whether rich or poor, must be bought for the family to taste!
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The mooncake is a traditional "Beijing-style dim sum", also known as "Beijing mooncake", which is one of the representative works of the mooncake category in the northern region. Tap mooncakes are divided into 2 kinds of tap white cakes and tap red cakes, tap white cakes are made of cold water and noodles, and the color of the baked mooncakes is the natural white of flour; the tap red mooncakes are made of 85 ° C hot water and noodles, and the amount of oil and sugar is more than that of tap white cakes, which is easier to color and more ruddy color.
Different from the common mooncake shape, Beijing mooncake is more like a "mini version of the small steamed bun", bulging, chubby, all filled with sugar, nuts and green and red silk, with sesame oil and noodles as the crust, the taste is crisp and sticky, the taste is sweet. In the past, on the 15th day of August of the lunar calendar every year, the red mooncake was a must-have for every household in Beijing.
The traditional Beijing mooncake is not stained with meat and fish because of the ingredients, so it is not only the protagonist of the table, but also undertakes the task of worshiping ancestors and worshiping gods, which is a special honor that no other mooncake has.
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Cantonese-style mooncake originated in Guangzhou, is the main mooncake in the southern region, originated in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and was favored by most people because of its thin skin and beautiful shape, and has now become "synonymous with mooncakes".
The traditional Cantonese mooncake is divided into salty and sweet flavors, but there are many types of fillings, and the common double yellow lotus mooncake, white lotus mooncake, char siu mooncake and pineapple mooncake are all Cantonese mooncakes. The main features of Cantonese mooncakes are polysaccharides, thin skin, large filling, 160 grams of flour to be matched with 120 grams of conversion syrup, 40 grams of crust can be wrapped in 110 grams of filling! This bite down, super satisfied.
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In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, Suzhou-style mooncakes have always been loved by people. Like other types of mooncakes, the fillings in the Su-style mooncakes are also diverse, walnuts, sesame seeds, cashew nuts, winter melons, sugar, melon seeds, etc. can be used to make fillings, the most representative of which is the "fresh meat mooncake".
Crispy skin, tender meat, and delicious taste are the characteristics of fresh meat mooncakes, and the filling method is also quite exquisite! Choose fresh, skinless pork belly chopped into minced meat, adjust the taste and add the minced pork skin jelly, which makes the fresh meat mooncake very moist to eat. The crust made of oil noodles and puff pastry also needs to be folded many times, rolled into thin slices, in order to play the role of "crisp", wrapped in filling and pressed into small round cakes, and then baked, a full shape, oily but not greasy, crispy crust of the Su-style mooncake is ready.
These mooncakes emit a burst of fragrance, attracting many passers-by, bustling, and everyone gathers around to taste the freshly baked mooncakes.
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Chao-style mooncake, also known as láo cake, is a famous traditional cake in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province, and is one of the four major mooncake genres in China. The cake is a kind of cake commonly used by chaoshan people for weddings and funerals, and whenever the chaoshan people will send each other "double cooking cakes", which means that good things are in pairs, good omens.
The character 朥朥字朥朥 is the dialect of the Chaoshan region, which refers to lard, which is made of lard with flour and then wrapped in filling and baked.
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Dian (diān) style mooncake belongs to the Dian cuisine family and is a local traditional pastry, of which the cloud leg mooncake and flower cake are representative of the Dian-style mooncake.
Cloud leg mooncake crust is brownish yellow, the skin is smooth and with small oil bubbles, after gently breaking open, you can see the layers of outer skin, inside is a full of ingredients ham filling, sweet with salty, salty with sweet, and honey aroma inside. The characteristics are crisp but not broken, fragrant but not dry, oily but not greasy.
Flower mooncake is based on Yunnan's unique "edible roses" as raw materials, 1 kg of roses can only take out 500g of edible parts, add brown sugar and mash together, sealed and pickled for 1 week before filling. The baked flower mooncake is fragrant, sweet but not greasy.
Approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, what kind of mooncake do you eat?
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