The appearance is crystal clear
Does this little snack look like an iced mooncake at first glance? Up close, it's not. Taste it, the filling is sweet but not greasy, and the taste is fluffy. It can be steamed, white and tender, and bite a mouthful full of fragrance; it can also be fried, fried until golden brown, and the outside is charred and crispy; it can also be fried, and it can be put in the pot and shoveled how to make it will not break. It is the little red head of Lujiang.
Lujiang Little Red Head is a traditional famous spot with local characteristics in Anhui, which has a history of more than 100 years. Small red head, also known as oil sugar roasting, is made of fine noodles, glutinous rice, sugar, lard, kumquat, osmanthus flowers, its shape is like a blooming pomegranate flower, because the top is dyed with food coloring a red dot, so it is named.
The filling is exquisite
Regarding the historical origin of the little red head of the Lujiang River, it is said that in the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), the Joseon Dynasty was in civil strife, when Korea was a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, at the request of the King of Joseon, the Qing government sent Wu Changqing, a famous general of the Huai Army and the admiral of the Guangdong Water Division, to lead his troops to the east to help the DPRK quell the chaos.
Wu Changqing (1829-1884), Zi Jia Shan, Number Xiao Xuan. A native of Shahushan (present-day Shenggang Village, Nihe Town), Lujiang South Township, Hefei
After arriving in Korea, most of the officers and men of the "Qing" battalion of the Huai Army led by him were natives of Lujiang, and their morale was low. Wu Changqing immediately summoned the military cook Yin Guanggen (a native of Lucheng Gangwan) and asked him to improve the soldiers' food. Master Yin pondered overnight, took local materials, and used flour used by North Korea to process cold noodles, added oil and sugar, carefully imitated into oil and sugar and sold, using dry solid filling, steaming and drying, easy to carry around. The soldiers ate sweet, soft and crispy food, and their morale was greatly boosted. Returning to his hometown after the war, Master Yin opened a "Yin Wanhe" dim sum shop, specializing in the Korean imitation of "oil sugar roast sale", which soon swept the city of Lujiang.
Small redheads in traditional packaging
In the twelfth year of Guangxu (1886), before Jiang Sitong of Lujiang ZhiXian entered Beijing, he made a special trip to the "Yin Wanhe" dim sum shop and asked Master Yin to process and make "oil and sugar roasting and selling". Jiang Zhixian is well aware of the royal rules, and specially asked Master Yin to dye a red dot on the top of each burning with food coloring, which means ruyi and auspicious. At the same time, the old smith was specially invited to process the refined small grate for packaging, and a circle of red paper was placed around the grate, and every two baskets were tied with a red ribbon. After being brought to the capital, it was presented to Empress Dowager Cixi through the clan, and Cixi was greatly appreciated after tasting it. Because he didn't know the name of the object, he exclaimed, "Beautiful! Little redhead. "Lafayette" Jinkou Yuyan, Lujiang "Yin Wanhe" dim sum shop "oil sugar roast sale" is called "little red head". Since the beginning, successive Lujiang Zhixian counties have refined a certain number of "little red heads" every year, and specially dedicated themselves to the royal family of the capital and become "tributes".
The little redhead is also available in a paper box for easy transport
In 2010, "Lujiang County Little Red Head Making Technique" was selected into the third batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage list of Chaohu City (prefecture level), and in the same year, it was selected into the third batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage list of Anhui Province.
In 2018, Lujiang's "little red head" was selected into the "Anhui Time-honored Brand" sequence.
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