When it comes to Tianjin cuisine, everyone's first reaction is pancake fruit, pot dishes, today to talk to you about something fresh - those characteristic old flavors that only Tianjin locals know.
• Sesame sauce candy
It is said that northerners like sesame sauce. Chengdu hot pot dipping saucer we dip sesame sauce, Chaoshan hot pot dipped in sand tea sauce we dip sesame sauce. We northerners really like sesame sauce, and in Tianjin, sesame sauce can not only be used as a seasoning, but also can be made into a crisp and delicious sesame sauce candy, and this is the favorite taste of Tianjin dolls in the old days.
In Tianjin, good sesame sauce candy is handmade. The raw material of sesame sauce candy is not just pure sesame sauce, which will be mixed with a small amount of peanut butter. The finished sesame sauce candy is a complete rectangle that will be divided into two pieces with a gentle break. Tianjin's sesame sauce sugar will not be too sweet, the aroma of sesame sauce is relatively strong, melt in the mouth, the aftertaste is mellow, young and old.
• Dried cakes
Tianjin Yangcun Dried Cake was founded in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, processed from high-grade rice noodles and white sugar, and was given as a national gift by Premier Zhou as a national gift to international friends after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
With the abundance of material life, the current dried cake is not only the cake body, but also adds filling to it. In Tianjin, the dried cake that can be bought by the Tianjin people in a queue must be made by the store itself, and the Tianjin people who have studied "eating" bei'er will not be perfunctory by buying the filling at will. The most common dried cake fillings are red fruit fillings and bean paste fillings, and the red fruit fillings must be able to see the flesh of the red fruits, and the taste is sweet and sour. The bean paste filling must be soft and delicate, and the bean flavor is strong. If you encounter a freshly baked dried cake, then you can catch up with this wave, the smell of rice, drill into the nose, even if you are not hungry, you will want to buy two pieces.
• Large pear cake
The big pear cake is the "old taste" that Tianjin people eat the most when they were children. Unlike the sesame sauce candy introduced earlier, the production cost of sesame sauce candy is higher, and it was not affordable to eat every day in the past. However, the production of large pear cake is much simpler and cheaper, that is, granulated sugar and a little "screwdriver", which is made after heating and puffing. The big pear cake is a little bitter, but the previous Tianjin children thought that the big pear cake was large and cost-effective, and they all liked this unique taste. Tianjin still has a rumor that "eat the big pear cake, walk without wrestling", which shows the status of the big pear cake in the minds of Tianjin locals.