Mooncake is a carrier of China's thousands of years of historical tradition precipitated, but also the crystallization of etiquette, emotion and culture, in the eyes of the Chinese people, eating mooncakes every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a custom, a habit, a stereotype. In 2016, the sales of mooncakes nationwide exceeded 10 billion.
But to tell the truth, there are few mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival that people really like. The battle at the mooncake market has made the traditional old-fashioned mooncakes more and more fancy and more and more bizarre. Some mooncakes are darker than darker dishes, especially the appearance of crayfish mooncakes.
In the mooncake market defeated is The five ren, as a big name in the Cantonese moon cake Wu Ren moon cake, it is one of the traditional Chinese pastries, in the Mid-Autumn Festival of various types of moon cakes, x it was once the most famous, a five ren moon cake needs to have exquisite ingredients, thin skin filling, delicious and delicious, not easy to break, easy to carry and so on. The shape is drum-shaped, the edges are slightly bulging, the pattern and handwriting are clear, the shape is correct, the skin is not broken, the filling is not exposed, the corners are clear; the edges are ivory, the bottom surface is brownish red; the taste is sweet, soft and crispy, and there are a variety of nut aromas.
But there is a traditional mooncake that has always existed and has never been defeated, and it is a big sesame cake with a bad look and a big grin of black sesame rock sugar. The taste is not unusual, ordinary pole, but in the hearts of some people, there is it is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Cannabis cake is made in many places, but it is generally ranked after the fourth-tier cities, and its origin is said to have allusions. Legend has it that in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang raised an army against the Yuan, and when attacking Yuxikou, his vanguard Zhang Desheng thought that soldiers were fighting on the water, and if they did not solve the problem of eating well, they would definitely make a mistake in the war. So he remembered that there was a kind of pastry in his hometown, which was as big as a chess piece, known as "money cake", so he ordered the military cook to imitate the "money cake", add sugar filling and enlarge it, and make it into "cannabis cake" so that soldiers could be hungry during wartime. In this way, it not only solved the problem of soldiers eating during wartime, but also saved the time to cook and eat, and won the fighter. After the soldiers ate this sweet and delicious pastry for the first time, their morale was greatly boosted, and they defeated the Yuan Dynasty officials in one fell swoop. Zhu Yuanzhang heard the affection and praised: "This is really a victory cake also." ”
Completely handmade, genuine, without a little exaggerated appearance, generations of such cannabis cakes accompany people in small cities through the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Usually, the family will buy a hemp cake and on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family will divide the hemp cake into several small pieces to eat. The main production of large sesame cakes is white sesame black sesame flour.
Every year before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the pastry is too busy to make thousands of cannabis cakes a day.
It still retains the appearance of a traditional pastry workshop, handmade, hand-blended, the taste is not unusual, the fragrance is sweet, the dough is soft, but it is not crispy.
This kind of cannabis cake packaging is also simple, after doing a good job, wrapped in a simple packaging bag, a dozen dollars, the whole family is full.
Each place has different customs, including eating mooncakes is the same, simple cannabis cakes, from the appearance to the taste is not the top good, the same is the real material old taste, but with it, the Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be as strong as in the past.