Jingba is a well-known pastry snack in Beijing, and old Beijingers and people who travel abroad like to give this Beijing snack to the elderly at home as a gift. "Kyo hachijo" is eight kinds of Kyo-style pastries with different shapes and tastes. It was founded as the imperial dining room of the Qing court and spread to the people. It is filled with eight ingredients, including date paste, green plum, raisins, roses, bean paste, sugar, bananas, and pretzels, and is made with oil, water, and noodles.
The eight pieces of pastries in Beijing are divided into three kinds: eight large puff pastry pieces, eight small milk skin pieces, and eight thin wine skin pieces. Most of the fillings in Jingba are fried fillings, and the main ingredients are sugar, hawthorn, date paste, chengsha, etc., plus some seeds, osmanthus flowers, roses, honey and other accessories. Delicate silk, soft taste, with the sweet aroma of honey, so it is also called "honey filling".
There are a total of 25 patterns in the eight pieces, which are divided into three types: head row, broken skin and puff pastry. "Head line" is the jargon of the pastry industry, which means the variety that must be made first. It is characterized by high oil content and sugar content; and the process of noodles and molding is relatively simple; they are made of various shapes of molds, so that the surface is printed with various patterns, and the appearance is beautiful and generous; when baking, it is generally used for punching. The pattern of "head line": peach crisp (bat crisp, peach crisp, egg yolk puff pastry, square crisp, almond crisp, sesame crisp, white crisp, etc.), bala cake, yuan cake, etc. The finished peach crisp has a dark wheat yellow surface and a uniform small honeycomb inside. The flavor is characterized by a crisp and loose taste, soft and oily, and no teeth when eating, which is most suitable for the elderly and children. The egg yolk puff pastry is shaped like a peach and a bat, and is made by mixing egg yolk, large oil, cotton sugar, and fine powder. Molded into a peach or bat shape, the group is a "shou" character. The color is wheat yellow, the taste is crisp and soft, fresh and refreshing, with osmanthus and egg yolk aromas. Bala cakes are rounded cakes with a natural crack pattern. The main raw materials are fine powder, white oil, cotton white sugar, peach kernel, osmanthus and so on. The surface of the finished product is printed with a circular Shou character pattern and three melon seeds. After baking, it naturally cracks and is green and white. It has a rich aroma of white oil, peach kernels, and a sweet pine flavor. The cake (date paste) is made of fine powder, white oil, fresh eggs and cotton sugar. Filled with date paste. The shape is flat and round, with a pattern of flower molds, and the word "Zhuangyuan" in the middle is a traditional famous product in the big eight pieces. Legend has it that in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, there was an "examination hall" in Dongchenggen, Beijing, and in order to cater to the hearts of the people who should be examined, a Jinlanzhai tea restaurant in the nearby Suzhou Hutong named the two kinds of cakes produced as "Zhuangyuan Cake" and "Jinshi Cake" respectively, and the cake surface was printed with the words "Zhuangyuan". Because of the crispy filling and the special flavor, it is popular and has been passed down to this day.
Eight pieces of wine skin
The eight pieces of wine skin are divided into two categories, large and small, with a total of seven varieties. Eight small wine skins are 18 pieces per kilogram, and eight large wine skins are 12 pieces per kilogram. The eight pieces of wine skin are complex in craftsmanship and exquisite in production, which is a unique product in Beijing and is known as the essence of Beijing-style pastries. The characteristics of this product are: high oil content, less sugar; skin surface or with rice wine, or with milk, so there is a wine skin, milk skin, do not rao flavor; the appearance of the finished product gives people a hard feeling, but the taste is crisp, not easy to break, easy to carry, belongs to the hard leather pastry. The preparation of the filling is divided into two methods: stir-frying and rubbing the filling. The flavors include sweet and salty, pepper salt, rose, banana, osmanthus flower, green plum, grape, pine nut, date paste, chengsha and other fragrances. The appearance of the products is varied, and the beautification methods are also different; some are hand-kneaded into peaches, apricots and other fruit-like shapes, some are made of molds to make fu, lu, shou, xi and other words, and some surfaces are beautified by simmering faces, poking, and flowers. The appearance of the fire color is relatively light, most of the blue and white faces, it looks light and pleasant. The variety of the face is golden yellow, and the handwriting made of the mold is like a letter lettering of the lettering of the face, which is like a letterpress, giving people a three-dimensional feeling. In general, such products have the characteristics of hard appearance, crisp taste, delicate filling, diverse taste, beautiful appearance, realistic shape, not easy to break, and easy to carry.
Eight pieces of puff pastry
The eight pieces of puff pastry are a category of beijing eight pieces, with a total of eleven patterns. The delicate and exquisite processing is also the essence of Beijing-style pastries. The skin, puff pastry and filling are the main ingredients of the eight pieces of puff pastry. This type of product is characterized by a variety of flowers, creamy white and clean color, both model patterns, and craft shapes, look beautiful and generous, pleasing to the eye, eat up crispy pine inside the delicate, sweet and sticky, with a variety of seed aroma. The main patterns of the eight pieces of puff pastry are: green plum zygote, yellow pancake (yellow bubble cake), thin muffin, five-petal cake, three immortal cake, tiger skin cake, wind and cloud crisp, hawthorn shou peach, silver ingot crisp, everything is as expected, happy flowers and so on.
The meaning of Kyohachi
There are eight kinds of Beijing eight pieces, namely Fu, Lu, Shou, Xi, Cai, Wen, etc., which are both elegant and vividly show the beautiful meaning of the "eight" happy events in people's lives at that time. 1, Fuzi cake symbolizes happiness; 2, Taishi cake symbolizes high-ranking officials Houlu; 3, Shou peach cake symbolizes longevity and longevity; 4, Xizi cake, with a square with double "Xi" character, mostly used for wedding snacks; 5, silver ingot cake, is a pretzel salt and salty filling symbolizes wealth; 6, roll shortbread, but also pretzel salt and salt salt and crisp filling, symbolizing the keju high school, the future is immeasurable. 7, chicken fat cake, there is a harmonic sound "auspicious celebration and more than enough" meaning 8, jujube flower cake, may mean that young couples give birth to noble children early, and there must be male and female flowers to give birth. The old Beijing snack pastry Jingba is not only delicious, but also good-looking, and has a beautiful meaning.
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