Follow Teacher Hongying to Chongqing, and today we will share our food story in Shancheng Lane, when we have eaten ice powder and ice soup balls in the old house, we continue to follow the footsteps of Teacher Hongying along the winding stone road, the destination is the Joseph Hall often written about in "Moonlight Samurai".
Not long after, we encountered a kind of old Chongqing specialty food - iron cake, this kind of round looking small pastry in the previous era of lack of clothing and food, is a snack that children especially like, almost every street can be seen, that is, later with more and more types of snacks, freshly made snacks such as iron cake are slowly withdrawn from the market, except for occasionally seen in ancient towns and old streets, it is usually rare to see.
Why is it called iron cake, according to the elderly, because the utensils used to make this kind of cake resemble an ancient iron, it is affectionately called iron cake.
Iron cake production process is not complicated, the cost is not high, as long as there is a mold, and then according to the proportion of some fermented rice paste can be made, first in a certain proportion of the rice flour paste to add eggs, sugar, honey osmanthus and other materials, stir evenly, and then pour into a special bowl, put on the charcoal fire to bake, turn to two golden brown, you can bake.
Although the iron cake process is simple, but the taste of each one is different, the main difference is in the preparation of rice paste, consistency, proportion will affect the taste of iron cake, in addition to the heat also has certain requirements, you need to use iron skewers to flip the cake in time, baked to both sides of the golden brown.
Just out of the pot of iron cake although some hot, but is the most delicious, bite a bite, the texture of the inside like white cake, but there are some more light sweet and sour taste, compared with today's dazzling modern pastries, can not say how much delicious, but there is a special taste that can remind people of childhood, the price is not expensive, ordinary as long as 1 yuan a, other flavors are also 2 yuan a piece, the boss said that usually a day can sell hundreds (a pot can be branded out of 20), holiday business is good, a day can sell one or two thousand.
After the Hongying teacher tasted, he even said "delicious, or the taste of childhood", and warmly beckoned everyone to taste together, this fun of sharing food seems to make the happiness of enjoying food doubled, everyone in the laughter, you one by one to pass and taste, is the most beautiful memory of travel.
Iron cake is characterized by "hot, fragrant, crisp, tender", rich in nutrition, young and old, originally common on the roadside, but later by the impact of modern snacks, it has been difficult to see, can be seen with The Hongying teacher on the way to Chongqing, it is really meaningful, as if let us travel to the "Moonlight Samurai" Dou Xiaoming's life era, not only let the locals evoke a full of childhood memories, but also let foreign friends taste the taste of old Chongqing, enrich their understanding of Chongqing food culture.