Xi'an's famous puff pastry crystal cake is the most famous of Demaogong, named for its crystal clear filling. The famous Demaogong crystal cake is called "four-color crystal cake", the filling contains roses, orange cakes, walnut kernels, green and red silk and other materials, after breaking open, red is red to green is green, and it is good to look at. The puff pastry crystal cake oil is not greasy, the entrance is sweet, and the rich fragrance of rose and orange cake is endlessly evocative.
Legend has it that the crystal cake originated in Xiayi County in the Song Dynasty, which is today's Xiayi Town in Weinan City, which was on a par with bird's nest, white fungus and Jinhua ham. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Weinan Tongyi Stack Zhang Caifeng technician improved the process, and the product was greatly praised for its "gold face and silver gang, skin and puff pastry, cool tongue seeping teeth, and fresh fragrance and refreshing taste". Empress Dowager Cixi tasted the Demao gong crystal cake and praised it, hand-picking it as a "tribute" one by one.
The crystal cake is known as "gold bottom silver gang crystal cavity, red seal cover center" praise. Chen Yuanliang's "Chronicle of the Ages" volume 34 quotes the "Miscellaneous Records of the Years" as follows: "Folk nine-day cakes, each cake is placed on a number of small deer, the number of food Lu cakes." This is a good mouthpiece to take the harmonic sounds of "Lu" and "Deer". Fufeng's deer cake bun is to inherit the custom of eating "Lu cake" on the Chongyang Festival, and the ancient people decorated deer, elephants and other things on the pastry to take the color head, and later gradually evolved into a stamp, and the embellishment on the dim sum was taken from the auspicious custom.
According to legend, during the Northern Song Dynasty, Kou Zhun returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, and someone gave a crystal cake and a poem: "There are crystal eyes and crystal hearts." Be able to defend loyalty and adultery, and be innocent and not stained with dust." The Qin people's crystal cake refers to the heart, a crystal heart. Crystal cake, so known as "the first of the Qin point".
Crystal cake
raw material
Cooked lard, refined white flour, water, cotton sugar, cooked flour, sugar rose, sugar osmanthus flower, rock sugar, orange cake, walnut kernel, green and red silk
Method of production
1. After the cooked lard is mixed with water and emulsified, the refined white flour and cooked lard are directly blended, and repeatedly kneaded until the tendons are soft, that is, the pastry is formed;
2. Mix the marinated sugar plate with the cotton sugar, and then add cooked flour, sugar rose, sugar osmanthus flower, rock sugar, orange cake, walnut kernel, green and red silk, stir well to form a crystal cake filling;
3. Adopt the method of large bags of pastry, that is, first put the shortbread into the dough, then pull it into small pieces, wrap it into the pie filling, make a cake blank, cover it with the red mark of "crystal cake", and bake it into the oven to mature.
peculiarity
The skin is crispy and filling, and the fragrance is delicious.
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The famous ancient capital of Xi'an, the "Chinese time-honored brand" Demaogong Food Store, was founded in the eleventh year of Qing Tongzhi (1872 AD). The owner takes the meaning of paying attention to business reputation, treating people with humility, and hoping for the prosperity and development of the cause, and chooses the sentence "to Mao Nai De" to name the store "De Mao Gong". Known as the "first of The Qin-style pastries", the Demaogong brand crystal cake is of the highest quality, the craftsmanship is exquisite, its filling is crystal clear and transparent, and it is a business card product of the ancient city of Xi'an. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was appointed as a tribute by the royal family, and its value was multiplied. Nowadays, it is a must-have for tourists from all over the world to visit Xi'an.
Address: Xi'an Lianhu District West Street and Xijuyuan Lane intersection near the Xi'an City Wall (West Ring Road).
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