Gui Fa Xiang Twist Flower, also known as the Eighteenth Street Twist Flower, is one of the "Tianjin Three Musts" foods together with Tianjin Dog's Buns and Ear and Eye Fried Cake. Gui Faxiang's assorted twist flower is crisp and sweet, unique in flavor, and long-lasting, and can be stored for three months in spring and autumn, and two months in summer, which is amazing. Eighteenth Street twist flower is after repeated exploration and innovation, in the middle of the white strip and hemp strip sandwich a strip containing osmanthus flowers, min ginger, peach kernels, melon strips and other small ingredients of the puff pastry filling, so that the fried twist crisp soft sweet and distinctive, to create a assorted stuffed hemp flower. It is characterized by fragrant, crispy, crisp and sweet, and it is placed in a dry and ventilated place for several months without losing the taste, and it is not soft and non-deteriorating. Domestic and foreign guests who come to Tianjin for tourism must bring a few boxes of twist flowers to send to relatives and friends when they leave.
The founders of Gui Fa Xiang Twist are Fan Guicai and Fan Guilin brothers, which have a history of more than 70 years. At that time, the two brothers opened a twist shop on the eighteenth street of Dagu South Road in Tianjin, named "Gui FaXiang" and "Gui Fa Cheng", they were better than dry, and the twist flower was fried as much as possible, commonly known as "Eighteenth Street Twist Flower". After 1949, the two stores were merged into one, and the store was rebuilt by the state and named Gui Fa Xiang Twist Shop. In 1983, Tianjin Guifaxiang Twist Company was established, and 5 branches were opened in the city, and branches were set up in Changchun, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan and Zhengzhou.
First, the introduction of history
The Eighteenth Street Cannabis Flower, which was created in the 1930s, was created decades later than the above "two musts." Tianjin cannabis flower, which is trademarked by "Gui Faxiang" and "Eighteenth Street", is commonly known as "Eighteenth Street Cannabis Flower" because its birthplace is in the area of 18th Street, East Building, Hexi District, Tianjin today.
The founder of the Eighteenth Street Cannabis Flower is Fan Guilin, a native of Dacheng County, Hebei Province. He was born in 1915 to a poor peasant family, his father died prematurely, and he struggled with his mother and two older brothers. In 1924, Fan Guilin, who was only 9 years old, and Fan Guicai, the second brother of 11 years old, fled the wilderness with their mother and came to Tianjin all the way to tianjin to borrow nanlou village to seek a livelihood.
In 1928, 13-year-old Fan Guilin was introduced to a twist shop on the Eighteenth Street of the East Building as a buddy. Every day, he helped the workers fry the twist flowers, and then carried the food baskets along the street to sell. After a few years, Fan Guilin went to the Liu family twist shop in Nanlou Village as a buddy, still doing the work of frying twist flowers and selling twist flowers. Fan Guilin took advantage of the opportunity of apprenticeship and helpers in two twist shops to carefully ponder, study carefully, and skillfully master the ingredients of fried twist flowers and the heat and technology of frying. From 1936 onwards, Fan Guilin quit his job as a helper and set up a stall near the Eighteenth Street of the East Building, frying twist flowers and selling them. His technique of frying twist flowers is very good, and the twisted flowers are beautiful and delicious, and they are very popular with customers, so the stall business is very good, and he quickly saved a sum of money. Fan Guilin understood that setting up stalls was not always a long-term solution, so he paid for a small store near the stalls and officially opened a twist shop with the name "Gui Faxiang".
Fried twist flowers are a popular snack loved by Tianjin people, and at that time there were many shops and stalls selling fried twist flowers in the city, with different levels of quality and fierce competition. In order to win in the competition, Fan Guilin repeatedly tried to produce and designed a set of ingenious production processes. He changed the noodles used for frying twist flowers to half-hair noodles, and sandwiched a puff pastry filling containing various ingredients such as peach kernels, osmanthus flowers, green and red silk, and rock sugar in the middle of the twist white strips. After this kind of preparation, the fried twist flowers are crispy and sweet, with a unique flavor, and as long as they are stored in a dry place, the crispy taste remains unchanged after many days. In addition, Fan Guilin's twist flowers are large in size, can fry out several pounds of hemp flowers, and are as crisp inside and out, which is difficult for other stores to do. These cannabis flowers are not only beautiful in color and fragrance, but also beautiful in shape, almost like a wonderful work of art, which is unbearable to eat. As a result, Fan Guilin's fried cannabis flowers became famous, "Gui Faxiang" became famous, and "Eighteenth Street Cannabis Flowers" also became a famous specialty in Tianjin.
After the 18th Street cannabis flower became famous, Fan Guilin still adhered to the original feeding standards and operating techniques, and never cut corners by relying on his reputation. His ingredients have strict standards, such as frying a half-pound twist flower, using 4 taels of oil, 225 yuan of sugar, and 1/2 halves of rock sugar. When making noodles, it is necessary to appropriately increase or decrease the amount of alkali according to the change of temperature. When frying, the fire should not be too fierce, and it must be fried through with a warm fire. So he fried the golden crispy hemp flower, which was very popular with customers.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this special snack with Tianjin flavor has gradually gone to the whole country. In 1959, Gui Faxiang's Eighteenth Street Cannabis Flower participated in the National Commodity Exhibition and received praise; in 1971, it was placed in the Guangzhou Export Commodities Fair, which won the appreciation of customers at home and abroad. Since then, the eighteenth street cannabis flower has become famous at home and abroad.
Second, the introduction of characteristics
Saying that Tianjin twist is absolute, that is indeed a place where it is absolute. Let's say that manufacturers, stores, large and small countless, and the most famous has to be said to be Gui Faxiang, now Gui Faxiang Twist Group Headquarters, is one of the three best foods in Tianjin. Tianjin twist flower has long been salty gifts from the Chinese people to relatives and friends, and it is the pride of Tianjin people that they have endured year after year, month, month and day.
The twist flowers operated by twist shops in Tianjin are almost the same. Using two or three white strips twisted together without pinching the head is called "rope head", two white strips plus a hemp strip screwed together is called "Huali Tiger", and two or three hemp strips are twisted into a "hemp shaft". At that time, the twisted flowers that were fried were crisp and fragrant, but they were hard. In 1937, Fan Guilin and Fan Guicai opened their own twist shops. Fan Guilin opened a company named "Guifaxiang". Fan Guicai opened a company named "Guifa Cheng". Due to the competition between them, the improvement of the quality of twist flowers has been promoted. Fan Guilin stood on innovation, and after repeated explorations, he finally developed a new variety of filling and half-hair noodles. The method of increasing or decreasing the ratio of alkali with the season and climate change makes the exploded twist flowers maintain stable quality throughout the year.
After the public-private partnership in 1956, the production workers improved the specifications of the varieties. According to the needs of the masses, it is made into a variety of specifications of twist flowers of 50 grams, 100 grams, 250 grams, 500 grams and 1000 grams of different weights and sizes. This unique flavor of the stuffed assorted twist, the taste is oily, crispy and sweet, beautiful shape, long-lasting, so it is particularly popular with the masses. Especially in recent years, the scale of production has expanded and the variety has increased, making this specialty food embark on a broader development path.
Gui Fa Xiang twist flower not only has six or seven varieties, but also has complete specifications, to be large and large, to be small and small, large 25 kg, 5 kg, small 50g, 100g. Hemp flowers have been used as exhibits to participate in the Tianjin Food Expo and "Heavenly Fair" and other activities, weighing up to ten kilograms, the larger the twist flower, the more difficult to operate, but take out the unique work, no matter how big the twist flower, once fried, it must be crispy Twist flower fell to the ground must be completely broken, to show its quality.
Gui Faxiang's twist flower "crispy and sweet, long-lasting", is a portrayal of its own quality; to say that it is "called a unique work" is to say that its crisp is not strong, the more chewy the more fragrant, the sweetness is moderate, there is a smell of Fujian ginger, as well as fried thoroughly, no moisture, at least three months, autumn twist can survive the winter, no preservatives.
3. Basic allusions
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, on the west side of the Weihai River in Tianjin, at the southern end of the bustling and noisy Xiaobailou, there was an alley called Eighteenth Street, and a man named Liu Laoba opened a small twist shop in this alley, and the name was called "Gui Faxiang". This man is very smart and capable, and fried twist flowers can be said to have a unique skill. He fried the twist flowers of real material, made of fine white flour, fine clear oil. The scent of twist flowers made every day can spread throughout the alleys, and people smell the fragrance and flock to his shop to buy, so his shop is always full of customers. Later, his business grew bigger and bigger, opening a storefront. At first, it was still full of guests, but as time went on, everyone felt that the twist was a little tired and tired, and gradually the business was not as good as before. The old man was not reconciled. Later, there was a small treasurer in the store, once went out to play, back home is tired and hungry, you have to snack to eat, but coincidentally there is no dim sum, only some snack residue remains. There was nothing else to eat, and the little treasurer's clever move made people put the dim sum residue and twist noodles together to make twist under the pan and fry. The result is that the fried twist flowers are different from the previous ones, except that they are crispy and fragrant, and the taste is delicious.
According to this method, Liu Laoba studied diligently and sandwiched the assorted puff pastry between the white strips and the hemp strips of the twist flower. As for the ingredients, it is even more painstaking and meditative, quite a bit of brains, osmanthus flowers, fujian ginger, walnut kernels, peanuts, sesame seeds... There are also green and red silk and rock sugar. In order to make their own twist flowers different, enhance the taste and taste, prolong the placement time, the material is more and more delicate, such as the fine salty osmanthus processed from the Osmanthus of Hangzhou West Lake, the rock sugar made of sugarcane planted in Lingfu, refined wheat flour, etc., which are not only stored for a long time, but also full of aroma, crisp and delicious taste, full of fresh mouth.
In this way, after repeated and careful research, Liu Laoba finally created a golden butter bright, sweet and delicious, long-lasting assorted stuffed hemp flower, since then "Gui Faxiang" twist flower is famous in the city, widely popular, becoming the first of Tianjin Wei's famous food "three musts". The 18th Street twist flower of Gui Faxiang was thus established as a century-old brand and became the favorite food of the people of Tianjin.
Its production is exquisite, the materials are fine and solid. Each twist flower is sandwiched with a assorted puff pastry made of more than a dozen small ingredients such as peach kernel green plum and osmanthus flowers, and then twisted into 5 flowers with hemp strips and white strips. Fry thoroughly over low heat with peanut oil. When out of the pan, add rock sugar and green and red silk. Characteristics are sweet, crispy, and not soft, unchanged and tasteless for several months. In 1989, it won the National Food Golden Tripod Award and the Silver Medal of the First National Food Expo. In 1991, it won the National Well-known Trademark Nomination Award.
Fourth, the introduction of raw materials
Flour 25 kg Vegetable oil 12.25 kg White sugar 6.75 kg Ginger slices 250 g Alkaline noodles 175 g Green silk, red silk 110 g Osmanthus 275 g Sesame seeds 750 g Saccharin 5 g Water 7.5 liters
Fifth, the production method
1. On the day before the twist is fried, add 500 grams of old manure with 3.5 kg of flour, stir well with 4 liters of warm water, and ferment into old manure for use the next day.
2. 3.5 kg of white sugar, 135 g of alkali noodles and 5 g of saccharin are cremated with 2 liters of water into sugar water for later use.
3. Take 3.5 kg of flour and blanch it with 550~650 grams of hot oil to make pastry for later.
4. Take 750 grams of hemp seeds, blanch well with boiling water, keep it not wet and dry, and prepare to rub the hemp strips.
5. Use the blanched pastry noodles, add 3.25 kg of sugar, 110 grams of green and red silk, 275 grams of osmanthus flowers, 175 grams of ginger slices and 25 grams of alkali noodles, and then put in 1 750 ml of cold water and stir well, rub your hands with 500 grams of dry noodles, and stir the noodles until soft and hard. 1000 grams of paving surface during the strip rolling process.
6. Put the remaining 16 kg of dry noodles into the dough machine, and then mix the old fat that was made the day before, add the sugar water, and then according to the moisture size of the flour, in different seasons, pour an appropriate amount of cold water, and make a large noodle for later.
7. Put the large noodles well, cut into large strips, and then send the large strips into the strip press, press them into thin noodles, and then pull the short strips about 35 cm long and straighten out the strips. One part is used as a strip of light, and the other part is kneaded with hemp seeds to make a hemp strip. Then make the reconciled pastry into puff pastry. Match the light strip, hemp strip, and crisp strip 5:3:1 and roll it into a rope-like twist flower (pinch and chew).
8. Pour the oil into the pot, use the simmer to heat, put the peanut blank into the warm oil pot and fry for about 20 minutes, the date red, the twist body is straight and not bent, after fishing out, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar residue, melon strips and other small ingredients between the strips.
Sixth, the specification introduction
The specifications of twist flowers are 100 grams, 250 grams, 500 grams, 1000 grams, 1500 grams and so on according to the weight of each root.
Seven, product features
Crispy and sweet, delicious, enduring and non-deteriorating.
8. Awards and honors
Gui Faxiang 18th Street Twist Flower was identified as "Chinese Famous Snack" at the first national famous snack recognition meeting, in 1996 by the Ministry of Domestic Trade of China named "China Time-honored Brand", has won the Ministry of Excellent Gold Ding Award, Asia Pacific Expo Gold Award, and was identified as China's well-known trademark, Tianjin famous brand products and Tianjin famous trademark, is China's leading brand of twist food.