The old Beijing on the tip of the tongue, sweet but not greasy, sweeter than the sugar fire of the first love, Beijingers are good at this bite!
Speaking of sugar fire burning we old Beijing people are not strangers, sweet and soft taste is not tired, until today, sugar fire has a history of more than three hundred years, in the past the most famous old Beijing is the Tongzhou Grand Canal Dashun Zhai sugar fire burned, because the Da Shun Zhai sugar fire has a characteristic, that is, summer is not easy to mold, winter is not easy to dry, and a put can be put for several months
There is also a story that has been passed down here to this day, in the early twenties, there was a Muslim imam in Beijing, named Zhang Qian, who was going to the holy land of Mecca for the pilgrimage, and the dry food he brought on the road was the sugar fire of Da Shun Zhai, and the food brought by his companions was broken, but the sugar fire he brought was moist as ever, sweet and delicious
In traditional culture, it is also considered to be a folk remedy, specializing in stomach trouble, whether it is three volts or three or nine days, as long as your stomach is uncomfortable, you come to the sugar fire is just right
In the past, there was a merchant from the south in old Beijing called Dashun, and his family was not satisfied with the soil and water, and often made trouble with the stomach, so in order to cure the stomach, he used this folk recipe, that is, sesame sauce and brown sugar, and when the stomach was upset, the two kinds of food were paired together to be effective immediately
But the problem is often to eat like this, everyone has to get tired, so after thinking about it, I thought of making sesame sauce and brown sugar into a baked cake in the pasta, which is the prototype of the old Beijing sugar fire!
In this way, both the stomach and intestines can be adjusted and delicious, it is simply to kill two birds with one stone, and slowly the sugar fire will develop in the capital, and it is delicious and curative, so our old Beijingers can't get tired of eating
However, this sugar fire to achieve the ultimate delicious must have caramel caramel caramel flavor from the inside to the outside, and the sugar burn sold by the old brand in Beijing has its own characteristics, but in fact, at home can also make the old Beijing traditional sugar fire, and the old Beijingers also have a trick, the sugar fire made is as rich as the old brand
The first thing to say is the fried sesame sauce, many people think that the sesame sauce does not need to be fried, directly and on the line, in fact, it is not, must be fried sugar, fried sesame sauce, in order to increase the color and the aroma of the burnt paste, and the sugar fire is delicious or not, mainly to see the caramel flavor is not strong, so the old Beijing people's tips are here
Brown sugar and sesame sauce to be fried in the pot, the pot with bottom oil, avoid paste, and then into the brown sugar, the amount of brown sugar can be determined according to their own preferences, the pot pour some water to fry the brown sugar, now the sesame sauce made out of the burnt cake color is generally not deep, so fry the brown sugar, help it deepen the color, in addition to a kind of caramel flavor
Wait until the brown sugar is fried to bubble up can be put into the sesame sauce, after the pot is mixed well, the next roll fire also has a lot of attention, the focus is to spread the caramel evenly, can not have a little dead knots, and noodles when a pound of flour, need pistachio-sized baking powder and half a bowl of water
And also hurry up and noodles, because this sugar fire is half a hair noodle, and when the noodles are kneaded into a ball as soon as possible, otherwise it will start, and the noodles and moisturize them can be made after two or three minutes
The first is to roll the noodles into large pieces, usually to roll into the thickness of half a chopstick, the finer the rolling, the better, is a triangle, the trick to make the caramel even is to roll the noodles into a triangle, and then spread the sesame sauce, leaving no gaps, and then roll up the noodles, if you want to make the sugar fire layered, there are many exquisite when rolling
Because the key to the layer is on both sides, the two sides are always aligned, you have to move to the side, not forward, the focus is on synchronous, can not be too thin, to put it bluntly, it is as thick as the cover of the magazine, and it can be made into a triangle to make the sides of the face thin, so that the layers will be more and more uniform
Some of the ground leaks and are not afraid, because they still have to fold it up, re-knead it and then roll it up, and the old Beijing sugar fire is mixed and crispy, and the delicious sugar fire-fired sesame sauce and noodles are fully fused together, so it is okay to break it, and finally rush the closing mouth, fold it in half, and flatten it, probably pressed into a palm width
Finally rolled up, pulled into a square agent, pressed into the shape of a baked cake, baked in the oven for forty-five minutes, the old Beijing sugar fire is cooked, the aroma of sesame sauce, thick caramel and faint fragrance are coming at you, while it is hot to eat Timothy
In fact, there are very few historical stories about the old Beijing sugar fire, but it is a snack that the old Beijingers often eat, and it can be relieved and can be used as a staple food, from the selection of ingredients to the production are the crafts handed down by the old Beijingers, and the sugar fire is petite, but its taste is not inferior to other old Beijing snacks, and even beijingers call it a sugar fire that is sweeter than the first love
Nowadays, walking into any long-established brand selling sugar fire can smell a pungent fragrance, making people feel as if they have returned to the Beijing city in the 1980s in an instant, to put it bluntly, the atmosphere of the old Beijing state-run store
Nowadays, it is said that Chinese cuisine is well-known at home and abroad, in fact, there are not many foods that can really be famous at home and abroad, and sugar fire is the most decent representative, baked cake or sugar fire, they are not just an old Beijing snack so simple, when it comes to old Beijing snacks, the first impression is clean and hygienic and delicious
But in fact, there is a great feature here, that is, the old Beijingers pay attention to food, and no matter what they eat, they are inseparable from the word inheritance, and in the eyes of old Beijingers, the taste of these snacks can connect with the memory of old Beijing!
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