Ear and eye fried cake originated in the late Qing Dynasty Guangxu years, the first generation of treasurer Liu Wanchun from pushing a single ostrich car to walk the streets and alleys to sell, to the street stalls at the west entrance of the Yiyi Street to sell now, after accumulating some capital, and his nephew partnered to rent an eight-foot square foot line on Beimenwai Street (the place where the porters worked and rested) to hang Liu Ji's signboard and started a fried cake shop.
Due to the inexpensive price of the fried cakes made by Liu Wanchun, it is outstanding among many fried cakes, and the trading is booming, which has won the reputation of Liu. Rich households and ordinary people celebrate birthdays, do happy birthday events, borrow cake words to harmonize, take the auspiciousness of backgammon, make an appointment in advance to buy fried cakes, so that business is booming, Liu Ji fried cake shop showed its reputation.
Because it is close to a narrow alley that is only more than 1 meter wide, the Ear Eye Alley, people humorously call Liu Ji Fried Cake Shop by Ear Eye. Fried cake is also known as ear eye fried cake.
Ear eye fried cake selected high-quality rice, our shop processing noodle sauce with high-grade red adzuki beans, white sugar through the traditional process of filling, designated oil fried, the finished skin is golden, crispy and not gun, the filling is fragrant but not greasy, palatability is strong, and there is no additive, can be described as green nutritious food. Since 1983, Ear Eye Fried Cake has been awarded the "Quality Food All-Gram Award" by the Municipal Government, the Municipal Commission of Commerce, the Municipal Culinary Association and the Municipal Catering Company, and won the gold medal at the 5th Asia-Pacific Expo in 1994, and was recognized as "Chinese Famous Snack" by the China Cuisine Association in December 1997. Ear eye fried cake and dog buns, eighteenth street twist flowers were named "Tianjin Three Best Foods" by the Municipal Commission of Commerce and the Cooking Association.
Ear and eye fried cake has four characteristics of "yellow, soft, tendon and fragrant". Smell fragrant, eat to the mouth crisp and delicious, sweet and sticky, the outer layer is fried crispy, while hot to suck a bite, hot, sweet, sticky, accidentally the filling will splash out.
1. How to distribute raw materials
5 kg of adzuki beans, 5 kg of brown sugar, 5 kg of glutinous rice and rice, and 1 kg of vegetable oil consumed
Second, the production method
1. Mill the noodles
The amount of rice and glutinous rice should depend on the viscosity of glutinous rice, usually: glutinous rice: rice = 7:3. The rice is sifted through the sieves, rinsed with water three times, and then soaked in clean water in a pot for 24 hours until the rice is soft. Grind it into rice dough with water, pack the rice dough in a white cloth bag, put it on the dough squeezer, squeeze out the water in the bag, and 5 kg of rice out of 8 kg of wet noodles.
2. Fermentation
The wet rice noodles are fermented (12 hours in spring and autumn, available at any time in summer, and 48 hours in winter), and put into the dough machine and set aside.
3. Stuffing
Wash the adzuki beans, add the alkali noodles according to the feeding standard, put them in the pot and cook them, grind them with a grinder, add brown sugar and mix well to set aside.
4. Finished product production
The mixture weighs 65 grams, and the agent is rolled out one by one into a fried cake crust, wrapped in 30 grams of bean paste filling, and formed. Fill the oil in the frying pan, burn until 5 minutes cooked, put in the wrapped raw cake, gradually increase the firepower, use long iron chopsticks to turn it diligently, to the cake is not scorched, fry for about 25 minutes to get out of the pot.