Hop cake, said to be a cake, is actually a kind of candied dried fruit snack.
You can see or eat this delicious snack of persimmon cake all over China, but in Fuping, Shaanxi Province, persimmon cake has a new shape and name, that is, "He'er cake", which is called because Fuping's persimmon cake is made of two persimmon cake umbilicus and umbilicus combined into one.
"Golden laurel persimmon red, frost descending picking the autumn wind, moisturizing the lungs and coughing called good products, healthy spleen unified sincerity of good seeds, ordinary people but envy sweet and astringent taste, do you know the flower tip healing skills, the most should be leaf cooking tea drink, he is happy to add crane age."
This "Persimmon Ode", which is widely spread in the folk, vividly describes the ripening season of persimmons and their effects of coughing and moisturizing the lungs, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and prolonging life.
He'er cake, to Shaanxi Fuping Dezhuangli Town as the best, the outside world also directly called this He'er cake "Zhuangli Heer cake".
Zhuangli He'er Cake, originating from the Ming Dynasty, is made from the local high-quality persimmons (not the famous fire crystal persimmons), and is processed by extremely delicate craftsmanship. It has a long history, sweet taste, easy to dissolve in water and no residue, as early as the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it has been included in the court tribute.
Every year, before and after the frost falls, in Fuping County, which is rich in persimmons, the ripe fruits hanging from the persimmon trees are like a big red lantern, and the picked persimmons piled up in front of the house are like clusters of burning flames. Under the eaves of every house, almost a bunch of persimmon cakes are hanging in the air, and the sun shines on them, shining brightly, and everywhere is a bright red, beautiful tight.
The processing method of the cake is extremely exquisite. According to the customs of local persimmon farmers, it is divided into five processes: scraping, drying cakes, pinching cakes, moisture and storage.
Newly picked persimmons, you must first choose a red but not too soft persimmon, with a special "persimmon scraper" to scrape off the persimmon skin, the requirement is thin and clean.
Then put the scraped persimmon on the foil, or hang it on the shelf with a string of rope, and dry it well for ten days, so that it shrinks, the outer layer changes color and hardens, and dehydrates about 40%.
After that, it takes three pinches. The purpose of kneading the cake is to make the moisture in the pulp penetrate from the inside out, so that the flesh is firm and soft, and the hard pieces in the pulp disappear. These three pinch cakes have another special point - the first time only need to gently pinch the chicken to make the water seep out; after four or five days of drying, the second time pinch the cake, so that the hard pieces in the flesh completely disappear; after three or four days of drying, the third pinch cake, completely pinch the core, combined with shaping.
Next make the moisture. After drying and kneading the cake, the persimmon cake has basically become the red color of the sauce, and the softness and hardness are moderate. Collect and stack them together, cover them with mats to make them hot and sweaty. After three or five days, the sugar in the fruit seeps out with the water, and then put it in a ventilated place, and the surface can form a white powder crystal, which is a persimmon cream.
Finally, the persimmon cake full of persimmon cream is removed from the stem, reshaped again, the umbilical cord to the umbilicus are combined into one, discharged and then in the container, closed and stored, sold as you go, and taken as you eat, to show the auspicious meaning of double pairing.
The characteristics of Zhuangli He'er cake are: fine production, soft flesh, bright and transparent appearance, white and thick persimmon cream, mellow taste, sweet as honey, rich in nutrition, and unchanged for a long time.
Coupled with the nutritional value of persimmons themselves and the therapeutic and medical effects, it can moisturize the lungs and relieve cough, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, and make people live longer and longer with regular food.
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