Xuzhou is known as "the key between the north and the south, the fortress of the east and the west", the convenience of transportation in all directions, the accumulation of thousands of years of city history, and the distinctive characteristics of the climate dividing line, so that the four food cultures converge here, rice and wheat are of the same species, rice and noodles are eaten together, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty have their own positions, both the rough of the sea bowl, but also the exquisite pastries.
The eight samples of Xuzhou, also known as "old eight samples, Xuzhou eight treasures", have many allusions and have been passed down for a long time, these eight are: honey three knives, croissant honey, strip crisp, osmanthus crisp, hemp slices, peanut candy, money cake, rice noodles.
Honey three knives
Honey three knives are named for their surface cutting three knives, raw materials are made of fine flour, sugar, maltose, honey, raw oil, hemp seeds, southern osmanthus flowers, etc. as raw materials, and oil surface as the bottom skin, and then a certain proportion of flour, maltose, oil, soda and into a dough, placed on the bottom skin rolled flat, sprinkled with sesame seeds, cut blanks, cut three knife marks on each piece of dough, and then fried into golden brown with vegetarian oil, and finally put in the candied sauce made of white sugar, maltose, honey, osmanthus flowers.
When the Qianlong Emperor passed through Xuzhou in the lower Jiangnan Province, he once named Xuzhou Fu ya to send people to the century-old shop "Taikang" (that is, the current Xuzhou Taikang Huimin Food Store) to buy honey three knives to eat, Qianlong after eating honey three knives Long Yan Dayue, the royal pen handwriting "Xuzhou a must, King Ding tribute".
Honey Three Knife Allusions: During the Northern Song Dynasty, when Su Dongpo was in Xuzhou, he was in Charge of Zhizhou and the hermit Zhang Shanren on Yunlong Mountain, and often met with him through wine. One day, Su Dongpo and Zhang Shanren drank and wrote poems on the crane pavilion, and when they were drunk, Su Dongpo drew out a new treasure knife, tested the knife on the bluestone next to the well fence of the drinking crane spring, slashed three times in a row, leaving a deep knife mark on the big bluestone, and su Shi was very happy to see that the treasure knife cut iron like mud. At this time, there is a new honey pastry in the tea pastry sent by the waiter, which is very delicious, but it has no name yet. Friends asked Su Dongpo to name the dim sum, Su Shi saw that this pastry was oily and golden, and there were three traces of floating cut on the surface, so he said "honey three knives are also".
Croissant honey
Croissant honey, because of its shape like a goat's horn, contains honey and got its name. The raw materials are made of fine flour, honey, sugar, maltose, vegetarian oil and so on.
The finished product has three layers inside and outside: honey syrup, horn shell, and powder crumbs. When eating, bite through the horn shell, the honey pulp flows out, and the sweetness is full of mouth.
Yangjiao honey allusion: Xuzhou was called Pengcheng in ancient times, which was the capital of Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, and when Chu and Han were fighting for supremacy, Xiang Yu led an army to fight with Liu Bang in front of the Nine Mile Mountain. When people were sleepy and hungry and thirsty, a shepherd boy used a sheep's horn full of wild honey to offer to Xiang Yu and his concubine Yu Ji to drink, and After Xiang Yu drank, he suddenly felt refreshed and gave the shepherd boy the sword full of gold and silver jewelry that he carried. After the war, Xiang Yu remembered the taste of the time, and ordered people to make a sheep's horn shape with flour, which was filled with honey and maltose called "croissant honey", which was a famous spot in the Chu King's Palace.
Strips of puff pastry
Strip crisp, Xuzhou dialect called "fruit", made of wheat flour, cotton sugar, caramel, the surface are sprinkled with sesame seeds, golden crisp, sweet and crispy, easy to enter, the more fragrant it is.
Osmanthus crisp sugar
Osmanthus crisp sugar is made of sesame seeds, refined flour, honey, maltose, white sugar, southern osmanthus and other refined, sweet and rich, nutritious and moist, can be eaten directly, boiling water brewing taste better.
Osmanthus crispy candy allusion: According to legend, during the Northern Song Dynasty, when Su Dongpo was serving as Xuzhou Zhizhou, the Yellow River broke through, and the flood reached the city, Su Dongpo led the military and civilians to prevent floods day and night, "Lu on the city, through the door of the house and not in", but the Yellow River flood rose higher and higher, and it seemed that it was going to flood over the city wall. After Su Dongpo's thirteen-year-old daughter Su Gu heard the news, she burned incense and prayed: as long as she can save the people of Xuzhou, she is willing to sacrifice herself to fight the flood. After praying, he jumped from the city wall into the water, and the flood magically receded.
In order to commemorate Sugu, the local people built the Huanglou Temple, sculpted the statue of SuGu and the statue of Su Shi to lay the foundation, not only that, some people made crisp candy to pass on to the world, hoping that the name of Fang was sweet and sweet, "crisp sugar", "Su Sugar" also, shaped like a wall tile to resist the flood.
Hemp tablets
Flakes, as thin as paper, crystal clear, crispy and delicious, crisp and not sticky. It is mainly made of raw materials such as white sesame seeds, cotton sugar, and caramel, and refined by peeling, boiling, sizing, tableting, and slicing of sesame seeds.
peanut brittle
Peanut candy is an ancient traditional snack that can be found in many places. Mainly made of peanut rice, sucrose, liquid glucose. Sweet and crispy, good quality and inexpensive.
Money cake
The money cake is small in shape, covered with sesame seeds, and a golden body, like money, hence the name.
Allusions to money cakes: In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, many officers and soldiers in Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising team were from the Xuhuai area, in order to inspire the hearts of the army, Zhu Yuanzhang asked people to make "big money cakes" filled with sugar in the Xuhuai area as food for the troops, also known as "victory cakes".
Rice strips
Jiang rice strips, Xuzhou people call glutinous rice Jiang rice, the shape of the strip, so called Jiang rice strips.
Rice noodles are made of white sugar, caramel, osmanthus flowers, flour and so on. First use the rice flour with water and thin noodles, steam into a paste, then put the paste into the basin, add caramel and continue to stir until even, then add the rice flour, stir into a dough, leave for about an hour, knead long strips, cut the knife into sections into hot oil and fry, immediately after the pot into the boiled syrup, sizing and hanging the pulp, dipped in the finished sugar product.
After reading so many desserts and pastries, do you feel that the lips and teeth are sweet, fragrant and fragrant, hurry up to buy it to have a mouth addiction, comfort the stomach.