Unconsciously, the annual leave has passed.
But there are always people who are still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year, lazy and unwilling to look directly at work, and secretly compete in their hearts: the Lantern Festival has not yet arrived, and this year is not over!
Laugh at what you say.
Then take advantage of the fact that the year is still there, go to the old-fashioned pastries to see, and prepare some Lantern Node Hearts.
Different from the "fast culture" such as the dock culture and hot dry noodles, the old Wuhan people eat dim sum and eat it is exquisite.
Spring cakes, summer cakes, autumn crisps, winter sugar, four o'clock and eight festivals, with a cup of tea, how comfortable to eat.
Several long-established pastries recognized by Wuhan people are not as soft and delicate as Su-style pastries, nor as beautiful as Cantonese-style pastries, and the biggest feature: real!
The older generation likes to go early to buy pastries, and when they go home, they put the snacks in an iron box, with rustling mung bean cakes and peach crisps that melt in one sip.
But these children could not resist gluttony, and within two days, the pastries in the iron box had reached the bottom.
I remember visiting a food shop when I was a child, looking through the transparent glass, looking at the golden, crispy or soft pastries on the counter, and the harrah's seeds can flow for a long time.
In the era when Western-style pastries were not so popular, the Wuhan lings after the 80s and 90s all pointed to these old pastries to relieve their hunger.
Now I think these "earthy" pastries are so sweet and flustered, and I really forgot that when I was a child, I ate more than anyone.
Nowadays, the popularity of time-honored pastries is not as hot as it used to be, but they are indispensable during the New Year's Festival!
Cao Xiangtai
Carrying baskets, picking burdens, setting up stalls, opening shops, running factories, more than two hundred years of time, the relay of three generations, so that the name Of Cao Xiangtai resounded throughout Jiangcheng.
Cao Xiangtai's most famous old-fashioned mung bean cake, popular as tea, only sold for a while, after that point it was gone.
Every year at that time, even if the father and mother line up for two hours, they have to buy a box of mung beans. Often at this time, people living in other places are particularly envious of those who live at the gate.
Unsurprisingly, we didn't buy the old-fashioned mung bean cake this time, but the honey mung bean cake that we accidentally found back was surprisingly delicious.
Contrary to the old-fashioned handmade mung bean cake, this new honey mung bean cake is very refreshing, both in appearance and filling.
The outer skin is soft without slag, the filling is fragrant and soft and non-sticky, the participation of honey makes the mung bean paste more fluffy, and most importantly, it does not taste bad at all.
A box of six pieces, affordable price, packaging is also convenient to preserve, a small one, afternoon tea must!!
Daddy and mother-in-law into the store must take the shortbread, the amount is also very solid, a small piece of slow eating can be eaten for a long time, black hemp crisp sugar is more mellow, white hemp shortbread is more sweet.
To say that the most joyful is really this piece of cake, the big "hi" word printing style, the inside is rock sugar, lotus paste, osmanthus flowers, sesame seeds, these, the old man is the best to bite.
Ice cream cake is also called cloud cake, like clouds as bright as snow, white to the photography sister when shooting constantly false focus, the biggest feature is thin and continuous, tough but not hard.
But it is also very controversial, people who love to eat can't stop taking a bite, and people who don't like to eat always feel astringent in the mouth, as uncomfortable as eating paper.
Five-star recommendation: honey mung bean cake, mung bean cake gold brick (available before and after the Qingming Festival)
Address: No. 409 Jiefang Road, Wuchang District
Per capita: 39 rmb
Crown Garden
As soon as you enter guansheng garden, you will be attracted by the Tiffany blue on the wall, with retro floor tiles and wooden shelves, there is a sense of national tide mixing and matching.
With a history of 104 years, Guanshengyuan serves old-fashioned mung bean cakes all year round, and it is not wrong to come here on the days when you can't eat Cao Xiangtai mung bean cakes.
The mung bean cake gold bricks packaged in paper have a soft and rustling taste in the mouth and melt with a light sip.
Pastries made with lard are so fragrant, sticky, soft and moist that they are missed for a few days after eating.
Vanilla cake has its own fluffy and soft properties, which will bounce back to its original state even if pressed hard.
Although it is a vanilla old cake, it does not have a heavy vanilla flavor in the mouth, but it is slightly sweet and fluffy, and the milk aroma lingers in the nasal cavity.
The appearance of the croissant crisp is particularly similar to the Western-style croissant bun, but the taste is thousands of miles apart.
The brown crisp sprinkled with white sugar makes the sugar control people look tight inside, but the elderly and children are full of joy when they see it, and occasionally eat a good, high-sugar pastry should not be eaten more.
Five-star recommendation: mung bean cake gold brick, vanilla old cake
Address: Jiang'an District Zhongshan Avenue Jiqing Street 1st floor
Per capita: 28 rmb
Wang Yuxia
"Wang Yuxia's cake - absolutely crispy", before entering the store, I saw a striking line.
It is said that Wang Yuxia's cake needs to be picked up by hand when it is eaten, and there is a saying of "picking up the pastry", which slowly evolved into a post-break language.
Wang Yuxia, who has been popular in Jiangcheng for nearly 300 years, was a giant in the pastry industry in Wuhan in the era of her parents, and the pastries here are the most abundant.
The dough, made with maltose, edible alkali and low gluten flour, makes the alkali shortbread more chewy than the average pastry, and when you bite down, the sesame seeds on both sides and the rich filling are layered and crispy.
It looks very pleasing to the milk yolk bag, filled with salted egg yolk crumbles, the milk is soft, the salty and sweet taste is balanced, and it is also very good as a New Year souvenir!
Macaron color of Longjing tea crisp, strawberry cheese crisp to see people in a good mood, no excessive flavor, light Longjing tea and strawberry milk aroma mixed with meat floss and salted egg yolk, with a sip of tea, salty and light.
Five-star recommendation: Kyogo, shortbread, seaweed pancakes
Per capita: 46 yuan
Jiangxi Peach Crisp King
Although Jiangxi Peach Crisp King is not a long-established brand in Wuhan, it has also become the favorite pastry of several generations of Wuhan people.
Unfortunately, many branches of Jiangxi Peach Crisp King in Wuhan have been closed one after another, and even the Dacheng Road branch, which is most recognized by Wuhan people, has disappeared.
We came to the Jianghan Road branch, the small store is still a lot of people, as a snack with high cost performance on Jianghan Road, the nearby fathers and mothers often come to patronize.
Peach crisp peach crisp, crisp to the heart of the person. Bite a piece lightly in the mouth, before you can chew it is already full in the mouth.
In addition to peach crisp, there are also pancakes and twist flowers in the store, and the small partners who love peach crisp remember to check whether the store is still there, don't run empty.
Five-star recommendation: Peach crisp
Address: a number of branches, nearby to buy
Per capita: 16 yuan
Dwarf pie
Another good value for money pastry is the dwarf pie, and the Dacheng Road branch has been lining up for 9 o'clock in the morning.
Everyone buys in boxes, and my father, who was queuing up in front of me, said quite experiencedly: "His taste can be, and the pepper and salt flavor can be bought or not." ”
All the pies are freshly made, with eight flavors that can be mixed and matched at will.
Only the pretzel flavor is salty, according to the queue, black sesame seeds, mung beans, coconut milk, osmanthus flowers are the most popular, and pepper and salt are rarely favored.
Once you get your hands on it, you can't wait to taste it, each one is thinly skinned and fillinged.
The smell of coconut milk is overflowing, and the mouth of osmanthus filling is fragrant, so it is no wonder that those fathers and mothers who have eaten are willing to queue up here.
There are also Jingguo on the counter, which is not unusual, and every long-established shop sells them.
Mung bean cake in summer and Jingguo in winter are not particularly delicious, but this is the taste of childhood.
Jingguo is dipped in syrup and wrapped in frosting, the appearance is white, and the loofah sac is formed inside, which is crushed and melted in the mouth with a pinch, and the flavor is delicious.
However, the most interesting way to eat, or soak the Jingguo in boiled water, Jingguo has become like a tangyuan, boiled water is clear and sweet, this way of eating can also solve the problem that children do not like to drink water.
Five-star recommendation: black sesame pie, mung bean pie
Per capita: 14 yuan
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Having said all that, what is the magic of a time-honored pastry?
Perhaps it is the golden mountain of memories that cannot be hollowed out, the likes and the deepest bonds that the older generation cannot quit.
The Lantern Festival is approaching, so go to these time-honored pastries to buy some pastries for the elders to beat the teeth!