In Fan Town, Daiyue District, Tai'an City, Shandong Province, there is a couple who have been doing fire burning for twenty years, and the craft of making fire has been handed down from my grandfather's generation and has a history of more than two hundred years. The couple started making baked cakes at five o'clock every morning until six o'clock in the afternoon.
Fan ZhenHuo is basically similar in appearance to other regions, with sesame seeds on one side and golden crispy on the other, with a circle of puff pastry on both sides. The difference is in this puff pastry, the general fire is made of peanut oil or lard oil, while the fan zhen fire is made of donkey oil. After about eighteen processes of large and small, the fire is made of deeper color and more crispy taste. And the preservation time is also longer, and it can be stored for more than ten days in winter.
The use of a unique method of mixing old noodles with alkali is used to make fire and noodles, and the proportion of noodles varies according to the temperature of the season. When making noodles, we pay attention to the use of "three noodles": hair noodles, raw noodles, old noodles, peanut oil, donkey oil and noodles in the puff pastry, and boiled on the stove all night.
The dough is divided into small pieces and pressed into long tongue-shaped crusts, thin at one end and thick at the other. Spread peanut oil, salt, and peppercorn noodles on one end, roll up and grease the other end. Brush the dough with donkey oil and roll a flower roll with a layer of black sesame seeds evenly. Gently roll out with a dough stick, press the dough into a fire, rolling is quite skillful, to ensure that the baked from the center to the edge, from top to bottom are layer by layer, circle, broken silk but not scattered. Ghee, dough, dough rolling, topping the stove, baking... After eighteen processes, the freshly baked shape is round, thick and layered.
There are several different flavors of burnt cakes: nuts, sesame seeds, spices, pretzels... The freshly baked fire, the aroma of the burnt bread alone is enough to arouse the appetite of diners, and the saliva has flowed down unconsciously. You need to pinch the baked cake while it is hot, boo this hot air, bite it down, and the crispy skin is rolled up, full of crispy. In the middle of the cake, the thick noodles are wrapped in the aroma of black sesame seeds and broken peanuts, the outside is crisp and the inside is soft, and the aftertaste is long... (NohKofi)