There is a traditional cuisine in Jinhua
Golden in color, crispy and delicious
It is a famous food in the Jinhua area
It is also a famous specialty for gifts to relatives and friends
Look for the intangible taste on the tip of your tongue - Jinhua shortbread
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Jinhua shortbread
Jinhua shortbread is one of the well-known traditional foods in Jinhua region, with unique production techniques and crispy and crispy taste characteristics, which are unique in mainland local food, and have become a well-known leisure food and gift-giving products in the north and south of the river.
Jinhua shortbread making techniques have a long history. Its production technique is a delicate and complex process, and such a process is gradually developed and perfected in the long process of historical evolution. From the initial baking of pulp, honey and noodles to more than a dozen processes now, the production technology has undergone a process from simple to complex, from coarse to fine, and in 2009 it was included in the third batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage projects.
Jinhua shortbread is mainly divided into two major pieces according to its production process and process:
First, the choice of materials
2. Production.
The production is mainly divided into three steps: 1, is to add the pork fat and dried vegetables, fine salt mixed into the filling, flour added to warm water to stir well, spread out to cool and then take out the appropriate amount, put in the same amount of yeast noodles, and knead well into the dough. 2: Roll out the dough, wrap in the filling and make a cake blank. 3. Bake the cake blank. Jinhua shortbread made by more than ten processes such as noodles, kneading, puff pastry, embryo picking, filling, brushing, sprinkling, baking, etc., is shaped like a crab shell, each layer is flat and thin as paper, the skin surface is golden, full of sesame seeds, the filling is oily but not greasy, fragrant and delicious, and the crispness is abnormal. Traveling at home, or tasting, or being hungry, is a real benefit. Crisp, fragrant, fluffy, crisp, to win, in case of moisture melting, is the unique taste characteristics of Jinhua shortbread. Another feature of Jinhua shortbread is that it is conducive to storage. Because the shortbread has been baked for a long time, the water is lost, making it possible to store for a long time. Even if it is damp, once baked, it can restore the crispy characteristics. Therefore, for a long time, Jinhua shortbread has attracted ordinary people for generations with its special flavor.
Jinhua shortbread is always a pleasant treat. Eating a bite of crisp, fragrant, crisp, not to mention, just talk about the process of a piece of white dough pasted in the barrel cake oven from white to golden brown, it is quite wonderful.
Shortbread is a traditional snack in the minds of Jinhua people, and all Jinhua people will extend their thumbs and proudly say: Shortbread is a famous specialty of Ah Lang Jinhua!
The filling inside the shortbread is also a very traditional old taste - dried vegetable meat. These dried vegetables have a mellow taste and are most suitable for pie filling, and the meat part is made of high-grade three layers of meat, which is fat but not greasy, and fragrant to the point of losing teeth.
Allusion
Jinhua shortbread has a long history, and the interesting thing is that the initiator is actually the "Chaos Demon King" Cheng Biting Jin. Cheng Yaojin, one of the twenty-four founding fathers of the Tang Dynasty, made a living selling burnt cakes in Jinhua in his early years. At one point, he cooked too many pancakes and didn't sell them all day. He kept the bread and prepared to sell it tomorrow. However, if the burnt bread goes bad, it cannot be sold.
Therefore, in order to prevent the burnt cake from becoming bad, Cheng Yaojin placed all the burnt cakes on the edge of the stove. He thought: Let the fire bake vigorously, and the burnt cake must not be broken! The next day, Cheng Yaojin got up to see that the meat oil in the baked cake was baked out, and the crust was even more oily and crispy, and it all became a shortbread.
In the process of baking shortbread, the temperature of the stove is very high, and the most important thing is to master the heat, which is the most difficult. From years of production experience, the master has figured out a good way: sprinkle water into the furnace, judge the temperature of the stove by the "squeaking" sound of the water in the stove, and the right temperature can bake the most delicious shortbread.
When the shortbread is still in the oven, it is necessary to stay by the side of the stove all the time to observe, watching the shortbread in the stove change from white to yellow, and the "small belly" slowly expands. Soon, the fragrant shortbread is freshly baked!
Jinhua shortbread is small and delicate, crisp in the mouth, a light bite, it will make a crisp sound of "whizzing", shortbread with strong old fragrance and salty taste, showing its unique charm, strongly grasping everyone's stomach!
With a gentle squeeze of the palm of your hand on the surface of the shortbread, the shortbread makes a crunching sound, the edges of the circle reveal overlapping layers, and the flakes are crunchy with a little sesame seeds. When eating shortbread, remember to pick up the whole thing, take a bite, those small pieces fall into the palm of your hand, and then pour the small pieces of the palm into your mouth at once, a big satisfaction!
Jinhua shortbread has become a part of Jinhua people's life, food has always had this function, it is integrated into the blood of life, become part of the memory, connect your taste buds and emotions, maybe this is the key to the moving food! Taste memories love to hate.
The source of the video material is Jinhua Cultural Tourism Development and Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center
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