Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, have you eaten mooncakes? Speaking of mooncakes, I believe that many people have eaten a lot of trendy mooncakes, and have also punched in major Internet celebrity tricks, but with the change of years, more and more people are beginning to return to the basics, but they are more and more in love with the taste of traditional old mooncakes. No, in Wang Guo Village, Jinyuan District, Wang Qiuxian's traditional stupid mooncake, which has just been rated as the "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Taiyuan City", has become a sought-after fragrant feast, and as soon as you enter Wang Qiuxian's mooncake workshop, a smell of mooncake aroma comes to your nose.
Reporter Yaotong: This is Wang Guo Village, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, where I am now located is The Wang Qiuxian Mooncake Processing Workshop, you see, this piece of golden color and fragrant mooncake in my hand is from here. Wang Qiuxian is the seventh generation inheritor of the traditional bun skin mooncake in Jinyuan, the mooncake she made is crispy, crispy and delicious, and is well received by the local people, and her mooncake has just been rated as the intangible cultural heritage of Taiyuan City this year, which is also the first time that the traditional mooncake making skills in Jinyuan District have won this honor.
And noodles, stirring, pressing the crust, baking is the basic steps of mooncake making, but Wang Qiuxian's stupid skin mooncake has one more step, that is, to make the pastry in the filling, high-quality flour, boiled pepper water, hot sesame oil, poured together in a certain proportion, and then add some white wine, you can and noodles.
Wang Qiuxian, the inheritor of the stupid skin mooncake technology: it can only be pressed, can not be kneaded, this mooncake noodle is easy to knead out of the gluten, out of the gluten it affects the taste, but also affects the beauty, press it to fuse a piece is almost.
The dough is partially removed and pressed into a dough, then placed in a baking dish and baked in a button pot that has been burned red.
Wang Qiuxian, the inheritor of the stupid skin mooncake technology: When baking the mooncake, you must keep this temperature good, if the temperature of this button pot is low, you must change it again, so you can keep changing the two pots, which makes this mooncake crispy and the color is also beautiful.
After 25 minutes, the baked dough is cooled and then broken into small pieces and kneaded with the prepared filling. This filling is particularly elaborate, with sesame seeds, peanuts, roses, raisins, sunflower kernels, walnut kernels, pine nuts, cooking oil, syrup, honey and sugar.
Wang Qiuxian, the inheritor of the clumsy mooncake technique: The characteristics of the clumsy mooncake are hard and hard when pinched, it is crispy to eat, and the filling inside is crispy and smells delicious.
The filling is stirred, take out the reconciled dough, according to the ratio of filling and dough to 1 to 2, knead into a ball, and then press it into the mooncake mold, so that the dough fills the mold to ensure the clarity of the mooncake pattern.
Wang Qiuxian, the inheritor of the stupid skin mooncake technique: When I was a child, I was also very curious to see adults doing this, and I also wanted to eat it, mainly delicious, but also curious, I passed this down.
Wang Qiuxian's son Du Chenguang: I only came back last year to help my mother do this, every day from morning to night, people who come to my house to buy mooncakes are endless, so many people say that they are delicious, very crisp, and there are also old customers to introduce new customers, so I have a special sense of achievement in my heart.
The pressed mooncake is brushed with a layer of cooking oil, and then a few small holes are tied to bake, and as time passes, the whole house is filled with a sweet smell.
Customer Wang Wenzhen: Real materials, bought every year, very tasty, fresh.
Customer Wang Ruiqiang: Send someone, my friend called him he likes to eat, his parents also like to eat, let me bring him some more.
Customer Dong Youfu: The best mooncake under the sky, honest and affordable.
Wang Qiuxian said that although the style and taste of mooncakes on the market are constantly being renovated, the charm of ancient Law inheritance is still deeply retained in the hearts of many people. This year, her family can earn 40,000 or 50,000 yuan just by making mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. And under her leadership, neighbors, aunts and aunts have joined the team of mooncake making, and everyone's life is getting better and better.
Qiuxian Mooncake Factory employee Zhang Zhonghua: I have been working for four years, in order not to lose our craft, I also carried and exercised my body, which is what it is.
In the inheritance of development, in the development of inheritance, now Jinyuan bean skin mooncake production process has successfully applied for the intangible cultural heritage of Taiyuan City, Wang Qiuxian is confident that the century-old cake making process, the crystallization of ancestral wisdom and culture, will be passed on well, and further promote the excellent traditional culture.
Wang Qiuxian, the inheritor of the stupid skin mooncake technology: Now people are more and more fond of my traditional mooncake, my next step is to expand this a little bigger, to drive our neighbors' big sisters and big wives, and they can also earn two dollars, run a well-off life, and live to a higher level. (Reporter Medicine Boy Jin Yang)
Source: Taiyuan Radio and Television News Channel