After the Tanabata, or back to Chengde, today I introduced this gourmet snack, has a history of 100 years, is also one of the desserts in the imperial court, there are many fillings, such as red bean paste filling (also known as Chengsha filling), red fruit filling (hawthorn), crystal filling, dried fruit five kernel filling. Its texture is thin and crisp, the filling inside is soft and sticky and sweet, and it has unique local characteristics----- Nansha cake
The filling of Nansha cake is more exquisite;
Crystal filling; pork plate oil peeled and diced, blanched with water and then dried, 500 grams of pork plate oil with 750 grams of sugar into the filling, the proportion must be mastered, this crystal filling high calorie and high fat suitable for winter eating.
Common fillings are Chengsha filling and Wuren filling;
Cook the red adzuki beans, crush them and sift them, remove the bean skin and residue, put 200 grams of white oil into the pot, put the bean paste and sugar into the pot in a 1:1 ratio and fry them dry over low heat, fry until they are not sticky, add osmanthus flowers and an appropriate amount of green and red silk, and the chengsha filling is ready.
Five kernel filling; steam the white soba noodles, and then add sesame oil according to the ratio of dry noodles 1 white sugar 2, the ratio of sesame oil and white sugar is 1:0.2, and then add peach kernels, almonds, green and red silk, osmanthus and other dried fruits, stir well and become filling.
Crust making
500 grams of flour, 250 grams of white oil, (need to be cooked and cooled in advance), and into oil noodles, and then take 500 grams of flour plus 300 grams of water and into water.
Roll out the bread oil noodles into a thin crust, then wrap the finished filling, roll out into a three-millimeter thick Nansha cake raw blank, put on a cake bell, and cook it over a warm heat.
People who have eaten Nansha cake feel that the taste is very good, sweet, soft, and they still want to eat after eating, which makes people linger.
Nansha cake as a royal meal snack of the court, once made in large quantities in the summer resort, for the Mongolian princes to use as dry grain, sometimes the royal dining room can not do so much, it is outsourced, let the local restaurant to help make, so the Nansha cake has become a local more popular food snack.