Original text: [Hawthorn cake mixed with pear shreds]: Kyoshi hawthorn cake with duck pear shredded mixed food, beautiful and unusual, this Xuanwufang South Restaurant Katsuya. Neither of the south nor the north, so the effect can not be shawn in the end.
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Hawthorn cake, also known as Beijing cake, golden cake, began in the Qing Dynasty, the name of the golden cake is still given by Empress Dowager Cixi, the West Buddha, one day, tired of eating the taste of the mountains and the sea, suddenly on a whim to eat this thing to relieve hunger, the palace people hurriedly found the capital to do hawthorn cake the most famous Taixing Zhang treasurer overnight to make. Due to the selection of raw materials, meticulous processing, the hawthorn cake made of ruddy color and golden yellow, West Buddha Cixi after tasting it is extremely fond of, not only for this smooth and delicate, sweet and sour taste of appreciation, but also for this royal gold, so the golden mouth opened, the royal family named it "Golden Cake". After that, the princes and nobles followed the trend of buying, so that for a time the supply of gold cakes was in short supply, and the famous city of Beijing was shaken, and slowly people called all the hawthorn cakes of any color as golden cakes, and they have been called to this day.
Empress Dowager Cixi felt that the hawthorn cake tasted good after eating the Hawthorn Cake of Taixing, but the name hawthorn cake was indecent and gave it the name Golden Cake. At that time, there were two of the most famous golden cake shops in Beijing: Taixing and Buchuan zhai, and the two hawthorn cakes had different recipes. Taixing's golden cake is made with white alum, the golden cake color is like rouge, bright and translucent, but generally can not put the sky; The golden cake of Buchuan Zhai is made with ancestral secret recipes without adding alum, and the golden cake is golden in color, and can be eaten until the day. Although the treasurers of the two golden cake shops are surnamed Zhang, people only call Taixing Golden Cake Zhang. It is not that the golden cake of Bucheon Zhai is worse than that of the Tae Hing, but that the Tae Hing is stained with the light of "Lafayette". The golden cakes produced by Taixing Golden Cake Factory are on a par with the sour plum soup of Xinyuan Zhai and the autumn pear paste of Tongyi Zhai. "Taixing Golden Cake Factory" in 1956 public-private partnership by the old treasurer Zhang Yuantai's nephew Zhang Zhongheng, zhang Zhongheng died in 1964 after the taixing golden cake village merged into Luoma City Qianmen Food Factory, later called Xuanwu Food Factory, in the previous few years of restructuring tide, very good state-owned enterprises became a joint-stock system, a hundred years of old brand Name Leng to change to no more, workers also scattered, retreated, cash cake factory site into Xijin Building.
Hawthorn cake, take hawthorn juice, with sugar, agar, frozen into a plate. The taste is smooth and delicate, sweet and cold and delicious, which is a very good food. Its taste is sweet and slightly sour, and it has the therapeutic value of dissipating accumulation, stagnation and stasis. In old age, hawthorn cakes were made without agar coagulants, because hawthorn itself is a fruit with a fairly high pectin content. You don't have to add fish gelatin powder, agar, or even other unhealthy additives to make hawthorn cakes. I have a friend named Li Min is the Beijing Cake Factory that year, the hometown in mentougou Zhaitang Fire Village, he said that the past golden cake will not put agar things, but must be put alum, now experts say alum to cancer, the government does not let use, some people do not know how to add other agar, food glue and other products, Li Min said, the last generation of teachers in the Beijing cake factory fu called golden cake money, there were many workers in the golden cake factory were Mentougou people, so now the Beijing Ximentougou Door Cake is still the taste of the old years. By the way, Li Min's family in the fire village to buy and sell a called Happiness Farm, where you can eat authentic golden cakes, of course, there are local pressed meat, roast lamb, dried vegetables and other famous food, you want to go now, just in time for the big red apricot to ripen, this big red apricot is still the tribute of the year!
Hawthorn has a hard core, thin flesh and slightly sour taste. Fruit can be eaten raw or made as preserved fruit cake, dried can be used in medicine, is a unique Chinese medicinal fruit and fruit combined use tree species, with blood lipids, blood pressure, cardiotonic, anti-arrhythmia and other effects, but also a good medicine for healthy spleen appetizer, digestion stagnation, blood sputum, chest and spleen fullness, hernia, blood stasis, amenorrhea and other diseases have a good effect. The flavonoids in hawthorn are a drug with strong anti-cancer effect, and its extract has a certain effect on inhibiting the growth, proliferation and invasion and metastasis of cancer cells in vivo. The efficacy of hawthorn digestion and stomach improvement is mainly related to the pharmacological effects of aiding digestion and bacteriostatic, providing pharmacological basis for its treatment of meat stagnation, stomach swelling, diarrhea and abdominal pain, etc.; the effect of qi dispersion and stasis is also mainly related to the pharmacological effects of lowering blood lipids, anti-atherosclerosis, anti-myocardial ischemia and so on. Hawthorn's active ingredients, organic acids and hawthorn flavonoids, are important material bases for its pharmacological effects.
Hawthorn can be processed into hawthorn cake, hawthorn cake, hawthorn slices, hawthorn strips, hawthorn rolls, hawthorn sauce, hawthorn juice, fried hawthorn, fruit peel, hawthorn tea, sugar snowball, hawthorn canned, hawthorn sugar gourd, etc. It is very important to make gold cakes to choose fruits, all called hawthorn, can be divided into iron fruit, bubble fruit and hawthorn three kinds, bubble fruit is also called big red fruit, a big mouthful of sweet, the most suitable for doing old Beijing sugar gourd, hawthorn meat less small, hard flesh, suitable for medicine, iron fruit size is the best raw material for making gold cake. Hawthorn cake is made of hawthorn as the main ingredient, accompanied by white sugar and osmanthus flowers. In addition to eating it in pieces, it can also be mixed with pear shreds, sweet and sour, soft and delicious.
In the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), Yuan Ming participated in the imperial court scientific examination, won the Middle Jinshi, was awarded the Hanlin Yuan Shu Jishi, studied in the Jingguo Zijian, in three years he made friends, and also tasted the Beijing cuisine, when Yuan Ming lived in the XuanwuMen area, after comparison, he felt that the hawthorn cake mixed with pear silk This dish is still a good dish for Xuanwufang South Restaurant. There is a saying in Beijing called "inner nine outside the seven imperial cities four, nine doors eight o'clock", at that time Beijing was called four nine cities, the old Beijing divided its residence into four cities, namely the east city, the west city, the south city, the north city. Once upon a time, there was a saying in Beijing called "East Gui Xi Fu, South Shang North Banner" There are many merchants in the south city, many people in the north city flag, the south city has a long history, and the folk customs are strong, forming a collection of many cultures such as the beijing shiren culture represented by the Liulichang factory, the traditional commercial culture represented by the long-established shops in the former Gate Dashilar area, and the old Beijing folk culture represented by the tianqiao, which is an inseparable part of Beijing's traditional culture. Chongwen and Xuanwu in Nancheng, as the settlements of ordinary people, traditional culture such as music art, drama, acrobatics, and handicrafts were once quite developed and had a glorious history. At that time, Nancheng, as the gathering place of merchants and travelers in various provinces, led to the prosperity of traditional commerce, forming a number of famous "old brands", traditional commercial streets and a large number of guild halls, so to understand the beijing civilian culture also got Nancheng.
Yuan MingQianlong sent Jiangnan to be an official for seven years, successively serving in Lishui, Shuyang, Jiangpu, jiangning zhi county, and from time to time he thought of this small dish of the Beijing division, and also let the chef make it, but the golden cakes and pears in the south were not as good as the north, and the dishes made, such as Dong Shi Xiao, could not be xiao er in the end. The following preparation is made with garden vegetable hawthorn cake mixed with pear shreds: raw hawthorn cake to use Beijing golden cake to cut fine wire, pear with duck pear or snowflake pear, wash and peel, cut into fine wire, put into a bowl sprinkled with a small amount of sugar, this dish even Yuan Mei loves to eat gold cake mixed with pear shredded to do. This dish is sweet, the pear shredded is crisp in the mouth, accompanied by the sour sweetness of the golden cake shreds, appetizing and degreasing. Of course, you can also cut a few knives of shredded cabbage, mixed together are also delicious, a few days ago in the golden cake pear shredded added ice cold bitter melon shreds, the entrance to taste, sweet and sour with a slight hint of bitterness, red, white and green, this dish is clear and moist lungs, healthy spleen consumption, is also a delicious and good summer cool side dish.
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