Little red head is also known as oil sugar roast sale, a traditional Han chinese spot in Lujiang County, Anhui Province. Its shape resembles a blooming pomegranate flower, which is named after the red color on the top.
In the eighth year of qing guangxu (1882), there was a "noon mutiny" in Korea, Wu Changqing led his troops to Pingding, most of the soldiers were Jianghuai disciples, and they were very uncomfortable with the three meals of wheat noodles in Korea a day, and many people had a lack of appetite, physical weakness, and low morale. On the basis of the oil sugar roasted wheat made in Lujiang's hometown, Chen Changkuan, the cook of the army, created a small red head suitable for the children of Jianghuai, and then it became an important dry food for the generals of the Qing Army, and even Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor liked the little red head very much.
From the Qing Guangxu years to the present, Lujiang 'Little Red Head' has won many honors. During the Qing Dynasty, it was listed as a tribute to the imperial court and dedicated to the court; in 1979, it was rated as a high-quality product at the Anhui Provincial Small Food Fair; in 1982, it was well received at the Beijing "Convenient Small Food" Conference; in 2009, "Lujiang Little Red Head" was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Chaohu City.
Lujiang "little red head" ingredients:
5 kg of flour, 250 g of yeast noodles, 50 g of kumquat cake, 50 g of plum, 150 g of walnut kernels, 150 g of sugar osmanthus flower, 25 g of alkali, 30 g of refined salt, 4.250 kg of honey, 500 g of lard oil, a little red pigment.
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