<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="91" > Kowloon Birthday Cake: At first glance, Zhu Yuanzhang tasted it: This is a southern treasure! </h1>
In Guizhou, there is a kind of pastry, it is estimated that most people have not heard of it, nor necessarily eaten, its history can be relatively long, according to legend began in the early Ming Dynasty. It is a famous delicious pastry in Guizhou, I heard that its first is the imperial palace tribute, it is the Kowloon offering cake - Weining Qiao crisp.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="93" > history of buckwheat puff pastry</h1>
One
The emperor celebrates his birthday, and Lady Xiangxiang prepares to celebrate his birthday
Legend has it that during the Hongwu period, The Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang celebrated his birthday, and at this time, Lady Xiangxiang, who was far away in Guizhou, ordered the chef to choose the high-quality and high-yield buckwheat of that year to prepare a pastry to pay tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang for his birthday.
After receiving this order from madame, the cooks worked day and night to think about how to do it, and the process was arduous, and they went through countless experiments, but they did not succeed. Seeing that the emperor's birthday was coming, the cook here had not yet made it, nor did he have any ideas, and Madame Xiangxiang was in a hurry. So Madame Xiangxiang posted notices all over the city: If anyone can make such a pastry, it will be rewarded. Oh, this is good, and there will be brave men under the heavy reward.
Two
Under the heavy reward there is a brave man, and the buckwheat cake is made
On the third day after the notice was posted, someone came to see the lady with a plate of pastries, and the lady was very happy when she saw it. It turned out that on the same day, a chef named Ding Chengjiu from Chongqing saw the notice posted by his wife and felt that he could try it. So this Chongqing chef tried, and after researching and improving and innovating various pastries, he finally made it, which was paid tribute to his wife. Finally, at the suggestion of Ding Chengjiu, Madame carved nine dragons around a "Shou" character on the cake, which means "Nine Dragons Sacrifice Shou".
Buckwheat, the safflower is sweet buckwheat, and the non-flowering is bitter buckwheat
Three
The imperial palace offered its birthday, and the emperor was dissatisfied
On the day of Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday, the lady offered the Kowloon birthday cake, at first Zhu Yuanzhang looked at just a plate of ordinary pastries, he could not raise interest, pastries, when the palace was missing, or a kind of look a little dark and dark.
Even Lao Zhu was a little angry, feeling that he was too interested in Madame Xiangxiang? As a result, Lady Xiang did not take his Ninth Five-Year Dignity in her eyes now, "Barbarians are barbarians, and they are always uncivilized," Zhu Yuanzhang thought. But you are a heavenly son, the temperament still has to be a little, after all, this is your birthday, not easy to get angry, but after the birthday, it is time to put some pressure on the barbarians over there. I don't take "朕" in my eyes.
Four
After tasting it, The Dragon Yan was overjoyed
So Zhu Yuanzhang politely picked up the pastry and looked at it, well, it was quite exquisite, nine dragons surrounded by a "Shou" word, this barbarian still used dim sum.
Smell it again, heck, this is not to mention, there is a special fragrance, this time Zhu Yuanzhang's previous dissatisfaction is also a lot less, I thought that even if the taste is not good, or don't blame her, after all, those places, can not be compared with the Central Plains.
Then Zhu Yuanzhang took a bite, Oh Mom, can't stop, it's so delicious, I didn't expect that there were such delicious pastries in this barbarian area, why didn't you pay tribute to Yuan earlier. Then Zhu Yuanzhang asked his wife what was the name of this cake? Madame said: Emperor Yu, this cake is the Kowloon Birthday Cake, which is made of buckwheat unique to Yelang, and it is the 95th Of Honor, and the Kowloon Pilgrimage!
Five
The Emperor gives "Southern Nobles"
After Listening to Old Zhu, Long Yan was overjoyed and praised loudly: This cake is a noble thing in the south! So from then on, the Kowloon Shou Cake was hand-picked by Zhu Yuanzhang as a tribute to the imperial palace. Since the Kowloon Cake is made of buckwheat, it was later called "buckwheat cake".
Of course, this is just a legend, but the relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang and Lady Xiangxiang is quite good. After hearing that Lady Xiangxiang died of illness, Zhu Yuanzhang also specially sent envoys to pay homage to Lady Xiangxiang, and after Lady Xiangxiang returned to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once said: "After Lady Xiang returned to the Ming Dynasty, it won 100,000 male soldiers."
Regarding the history of Qiao crisp, let's talk about it here, then let's look at its practice.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="119" > Weining's approach</h1>
Ingredients: Buckwheat flour, brown sugar to taste, 1 to 2 eggs, baking soda, yeast, red bean paste
Now add brown sugar with water to melt it
Pour in an appropriate amount of buckwheat flour, add eggs and yeast, soda, and mix the flour wet and knead into a smooth dough
Kneaded soba noodles are fermented for 1 day
Divide the fermented soba dough into small pieces, roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a skin, and wrap in bean paste
Coat the wrapped soba with salad oil and bake in the oven for about 15 minutes.
The taste of my Weining buckwheat is not authentic, which is why I went to Weining, please learned from an elder who made buckwheat, but it felt that the taste was still a little worse than that made by authentic Weining people. I can't find the reason for the difference.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="127" > Yibao has something to say:</h1>
The amount of buckwheat, according to how much I want to do to decide, generally I do is to eat at home for a day or two, a small bowl of soba noodles that usually eats can be, about 1 pound or so.
The ratio of buckwheat and baking soda and yeast is: 1:0.1:0.1, which means about a pound of flour, and the baking soda and yeast are about 1 gram. There is no fixity in the meaning of the elder, and it is mainly on one's own feelings. Almost on it, let's make food, there are not so many rules.
The role of baking soda is to make the fermented buckwheat more vigorous and crunchy to eat. The yeast is released to ferment buckwheat, and the fermented buckwheat is more flavorful. Since the bitter soba flour has a slightly bitter taste, the fermentation of baking soda and yeast can also neutralize some of the bitterness
Buckwheat flour must not be stirred with boiling water, boiling water stirring will blanch the flour, so it is recommended to use cold water or warm boiling water.
Buckwheat flowers
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="132" > why use buckwheat</h1>
Friends who know a little about buckwheat may ask why use bitter buckwheat instead of sweet buckwheat?
In fact, it is very simple, here is a brief introduction to 3 points:
The active sweet buckwheat is high and easy to ferment.
In terms of color, the color of sweet buckwheat will be darker than bitter buckwheat, and the appearance is not allowed.
High yield, buckwheat pastry used to be used as a tribute to the imperial palace, that yield is still relatively high, and the yield of buckwheat is more than 3 times that of sweet buckwheat, so sweet buckwheat will be used instead of bitter buckwheat
In terms of nutritional value, the nutritional value of buckwheat is much higher than that of sweet buckwheat
Full-grained buckwheat
In summary, Weining buckwheat has always been made with bitter buckwheat. With the long history getting longer and longer, buckwheat pastry has also been changed to many varieties, including ham filling, what rose filling, crystal filling and so on more than a dozen varieties. And the price is not low, I remember that I used to buy during the Mid-Autumn Festival, ordinary mooncakes about 15 pieces a pound, and buckwheat but 50 yuan a pound, calculated down about seven or eight yuan a, for my kind of bitter people, is unaffordable.
Today's buckwheat sharing is over, if you have the opportunity to come to my hometown guizhou, you must try the taste of Weining buckwheat, in addition to the price is a little more expensive, the taste is still relatively delicious, last year I bought my daughter 50 yuan, I deliberately mixed it in the mooncake, but I found that my smart daughter actually picked out all of them, spent less than 10 minutes, I spent "heavy money" to buy back the buckwheat all "eliminated" to complete. She didn't move at all, so I had to nibble on the mooncake in sorrow.
Sweet buckwheat, compared to bitter buckwheat, sweet buckwheat granules are a little smaller
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