Reporter: Rong Rong Yongning
Empress cake is a special food of our county, the skin is brown and crispy, the inner texture is clearly layered, soft and delicious, the oil is not greasy, and it was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Shaanxi Province in 2010. Duan Zhangwa, the inheritor of the Empress Dowager's cake making skills, has been passing on the characteristic food culture with traditional production techniques for more than 30 years.
Gu Min, a Sichuan tourist who played in our county for the past two days, made a special trip to the shop of Duan Zhangwa, a representative inheritor of the Empress Cake Making Technique in Nanguan Old Street, to taste authentic Fuping specialties.
Gu Min: How many years has this been?
Duan Zhangwa: This has been passed down in Fuping for more than 2,000 years, and I have been doing it for more than 30 years.
Gu Min: I've done this all my life, so what you do is particularly distinctive!
While tasting the soft Empress Dowager Cake on the outside, Gu Min listened to Duan Zhangwa tell about the long history and culture of Fuping Empress Dowager Cake, and she also praised Master Duan's craftsmanship.
Sichuan tourist Gu Min
I feel that this is very soft and fragrant and pure, and I have eaten it for the first time in my life, and I am very happy.
Duan Zhangwa, who began to learn the process of making empress cake in her early 30s, is now 66 years old and has formed a love affair with the queen cake for more than 30 years. Duan Zhangwa told us that the processing of the queen cake has to go through four processes: first of all, we must select high-quality pork plate oil, tear off the skin film, sprinkle a little salt, cinnamon noodles, large material noodles, pepper noodles, smash them into a sludge with the back of a knife, turn the fine white noodles and water into dough, roll out long squares, spread the oil sludge evenly on it, roll it into a circle, rotate it to make a round cake, then use honey to hydrate, smear it on the round cake, sprinkle a layer of black and white sesame seeds, and then bake it into the oven to make a golden brown.
Municipal intangible cultural heritage Fuping Empress Cake
The representative inheritor of the production technique Is Duan Zhangwa
The most important one in these four processes is the surface, to grasp the degree of initiation of the surface, and then one is to make the plate sludge, the plate sludge must be a good plate oil, the thicker the whiter the better.
Although the place where Duan Zhangwa sells the Queen's Cake is remote and simple, "the wine aroma is not afraid of the deep alley", and for more than thirty years, the customers who have come to admire it are also endless.
Retired teacher Ji Jinfang
Our Fuping's empress dowager cake is very famous, I grew up from snacking on it, because the original time my grandmother's family life was good, so my grandfather often bought it for me, and now I still want to eat it, today I am ready to go to Yan'an to meet guests, to go to friends, so today I want to give the empress dowager cake to Yan'an friends to bring a few more boxes.
The average daily sales volume is a bag of noodles a day, every day at 5:00 to do 12:00, the weekend can be appropriately more, a day can sell sometimes four or five hundred, sometimes two or three hundred.
In recent years, more and more people have learned to make Empress Dowager cakes with Duan Zhangwa's teachers, whether it is from other places or locals, or their own relatives, Duan Zhangwa hopes to do his best to pass it on.
My biggest gain, as far as I am concerned, can now make this queen cake, can call the local people, the elderly, children, every day can eat the queen cake I made, I am very happy in my heart, in my lifetime, I can do what time, only recognize this brand, do it well and pass it on.
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