Weinan Daily trainee reporter Jia Wei reporter Lu Jia
Mention the crystal cake, I believe that Weinan people will not be strangers. Take a crystal cake in your hand, a light sniff, the orange cake and rock sugar mixed with the fragrance of the mouth, crispy skin will fall off as soon as you touch it, the sweetness is just right, both on the tip of the tongue, but also on the tip of the heart, wonderful.
Crystal cake can have a thousand-year relationship with the People of Weinan. Legend has it that during the Northern Song Dynasty, Kou Zhun returned to his hometown of Weinan from Kyoto to visit his relatives in the countryside of Weinan one year, and on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday, the township party sent shou peaches, shou noodles, and shou plaques to express congratulations, and Kou Zhun treated them with birthday feasts. After three rounds of drinking, suddenly his men brought a delicate paulownia box, and Kou Zhun opened it to see that it contained 50 crystal clear and crystal-like snacks. On top of the dim sum, there is also a piece of red paper, neatly written a poem: "The public has crystal eyes, and there is a crystal heart, can distinguish between loyalty and adultery, innocence and no dust." "The payment is the Weibei Old Man. Later, Kou Zhun's home cook also imitated this kind of dim sum, Kou Zhun gave it a nice name according to its characteristics, called "crystal cake", which became the local name of Xiayi Town, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was improved and refined by the Weinan Tongyi Stack Zhang Caifeng Technician, and the product was famous for "gold face silver gang, skin flying crisp, cool tongue seeping teeth, fresh and refreshing taste". At that time, it was carefully packaged in paulownia boxes and cardboard boxes as a superior gift for relatives and friends. Later, it spread to Xi'an, and all pastry shops imitated and produced. A few days ago, the reporter came to the predecessor of Tongyi Stack, Tongyichang Food Factory, to taste the qin taste left by Zhang Caifeng technician.
When we came to the crystal cake making workshop of the food factory, the masters were all working in an orderly manner. And noodles, stuffing, wrapping, weighing, placing, stamping, baking in one go, the air is filled with the fragrance of filling, watching one by one white dolls wrapped in sunken, grouped into a small round cake, the bare body is stamped with a red seal, into the oven, it is! Freshly baked crystal cakes exude a stronger sweetness, small and chic, crispy and filling, so tempting, accompanied by a rich fragrance of rose and orange cakes, making people feel endlessly evocative.
"Our requirements are a thin skin and a large filling, cool and sweet fragrance, and a gold bottom and silver to help drum and drum!" Cheng Ailing, a pastry chef at Tongyichang Food Factory, said that the filling of the crystal cake is made of more than ten kinds of ingredients such as high-quality sesame seeds, rock sugar, green and red silk, peanut crisp, sugar rose, walnut kernel, etc., and strives to pass on the taste of our traditional pastry.
"As the inheritor of ancient handmade craftsmanship and the inheritor of the ancient handicraft brand, we will always stick to our original intention, select materials and strive for the best, and retain the memory of our Weinan people." Zhang Yonghong, director of the factory, said.