Binzhou has a special delicacy sesame shortbread, which is a must-have gift for locals to celebrate the festival, and this young man in Binzhou, Shandong Province, inherited this old craft of the family and became the 5th generation inheritor of their family, who has been making sesame shortbread for more than 160 years. In 1853, the boy's ancestors, apprentices, returned to their hometown, and opened a family workshop "Changjia Sugar Factory", which is very famous in the local area and almost everyone knows.
Nowadays, the boy is alone, getting up early every day and greedy, getting up at 4 a.m. to start busy work, making eight or nine pots a day, the boy's grandfather brought out a lot of apprentices, far away from Zhejiang, near Qingdao, Jinan. In the old north town where they were located, many people came to wholesale and carried burdens to sell.
Now people pay attention to health, sweet food to eat less, but this old taste or many people are very attached, the process of making sesame shortening is very complicated, first of all, the sugar must be boiled into syrup, the heat of boiling sugar must be mastered, in the process of boiling to repeatedly stretch, it takes more than 20 minutes, pull the good sugar, quickly put into the sesame pot, rotate, pull the wire.
Sesame processing is also very time-consuming, rub the skin, stir-fry, crush, pull strips, pluck, set, set the type of sesame shortbread, as thin as silver wire, fluffy, dry, crisp and delicious to eat, each piece of crisp sugar has more than 30,000 filaments, fine can wear needles, has not been simply a delicacy, more like handicrafts, eat up to eat the mouth, sweet and not greasy, people who have eaten all praise.
6 yuan a box is about 160 grams, there are three flavors, now the guy inherits the family's industry, elaborately made sesame shortening, not only to make money, but also to pass on this craft, in Binzhou Changjia sesame crisp candy has long been famous, is the local tourism designated products, but also rated as the municipal intangible cultural heritage, but also Shandong top ten characteristic brands.