Culture and Art Network - Culture and Art News Weinan "crystal cake" originated in the Song Dynasty Xiayi County (now Shaanxi Weinan City Linwei District Xiayi Town) area, because of its transparent and shiny filling, clean and crystalline, like crystal, its name is said to be the Song Dynasty famous Xiang Kou Zhun, at that time in the ancient capital Chang'an Market reputation and good, in the front of the commercial house with Gong Yan, silver ear, golden ham in front of the advertisement with Gong Yan, silver ear fungus, golden ham in front of the front of the line of the former Yu.
Crystal cakes have been handed down to this day, and the variety has also increased, including osmanthus filling, vegetarian oil filling, Wuren filling, etc., and the Weinan area is especially famous for the lime kiln crystal cake located in Dongfeng Street.
The production of lime kiln crystal cake is mainly divided into five processes: flooding, stirring, skin making, wrapping, stamping and baking. Drowning: stir the plate oil and cotton sugar together, cut into cubes and drown; stir: the drowned filling and more than ten kinds of ingredients such as green and red silk, osmanthus flowers, rock sugar, orange cake and other ingredients are stirred evenly; skin making: the flour is mixed with large oil, made into a dough, the flour and large oil are made into pastry (no water is added to the pastry production) and the dough is used to make the pastry to make the skin noodles; wrapping: the skin noodles are pulled into an equal amount of small dough, and the puff pastry and the stirred filling are combined to make the cake; finally stamped and baked.
Lime kiln crystal cake with sophisticated materials, exquisite craftsmanship, with gold and silver gang, peeling off the crisp, cool tongue seeping teeth, fragrant and delicious, with a strong local flavor, reflecting the "hometown of the three sages" cultural charm, so that local specialty food can be carried forward, is the New Year's Festival, gifts to relatives and friends, entertaining guests of the essential products, by the masses of love and praise.
Editor: Ruiqi Zhang