Friends who have watched the court drama know that the daily food of the imperial power and nobles is extremely exquisite and expensive, and today I am going to introduce you to a kind of cake that the empress dowager eats, its name is "Fuping Empress Cake", so that everyone can also feel the food life of the empress. It is said that there is also a story about this empress dowager cake, when the grandmother of Emperor Wen of Han built a manor in what is now Shaanxi, and then lived in the manor for a long time.
Emperor Wendi's mother, Empress Bo, also often went to visit her old man's home, and also left the accompanying chef to her grandmother, this empress dowager cake came from the chef, and later the chef taught this cake making technology to the local boss's surname, and it is precisely because of this that this dish can only be eaten by ordinary people in the royal cuisine, even if it has a history of more than 2,000 years.
Preparation of raw materials for the queen cake: we need a pound of flour, an appropriate amount of old yeast noodles, a little pork plate oil, salt, alkali, peppercorns and tangerine peel
The specific preparation method of the queen cake:
1. The first step is to make a face. We first add yeast noodles, warm water and fermented noodles to the flour, and when the noodles are ready, we add a little lye water to knead it evenly.
2. The second step is to make the filling. Then we add peppercorns and tangerine peel to make a juice, then de-film the plate oil, smash it into a puree with the back of a knife, add the juice and mix well with the salt.
3. The third step is forming. Now we roll out the dough into thin slices, smear a layer of plate sludge on the dough, roll it into a cylindrical shape, roll it into long strips, press it flat by hand to fold it three times, and then roll it into strips, form a potion, face up, rotate in the hand, press the top with your thumb, and turn it down while rotating to form a round cake blank.
4. The last step is to cook. We pour some honey into a small bowl, then add a small amount of water to the honey to make it into a solution, then we spread it on top of the cake blank that has been made, and then apply a little oil to the bottom of the pan, put the cake blank and bake it until it is cooked, and then we can eat it.
This Fuping Empress Cake is a delicacy that Empress Bo must make to visit the old man, although it is only a cake, but its finished product is golden in color, crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, the layers are clear, the oil is not greasy, and the more expensive food that is more expensive to eat is presumably, completely equal to the autumn color.
Tip: When we make noodles, we must pay attention to the time of noodles and do not let the noodles pass. There must be soft kneading dough; and when we cook, we recommend that you use medium heat throughout the process, so that the fire is just right, and the final color of the finished product will be relatively good. Well, I will share it with you here today, and everyone can try to do it themselves.