Some people say that everyone has a child in their hearts
Whenever you see something about childhood memories
That innocence will pop out
Among them, the childhood memories that can most touch people's hearts
It's often about good food
Remember the orange cake of your childhood? Remember the maltose sold on the streets? In those years, these sweets were deeply burned in our hearts, and many snacks today cannot be replaced
Today Xiaobu will take everyone back to childhood, these traditional sweets in Wenzhou, is there a share in your memory? Let's find the taste of hometown that Xiaobu loves with The Clock!
Loquat terrier
I still remember that every Spring Festival, the essential guests at home are this loquat stem ~ crackling, fluffy just right, the entrance is crisp, a bite down the crisp glutinous rice flour mixed with sweet sugar, sesame seeds, full of sweet, familiar taste.
At this time, come to a cup of tea with a loquat stem, let the taste buds awaken the perception, fragrant sweetness blooms in the middle of the lips and teeth, happiness is so simple.
Rice stalk rope
Rice stalk rope is actually a sweet twist flower. After the 70s and 80s living in Wenzhou, it is really a happy thing to be able to eat a rice pole rope when they are young.
Fermented with wheat flour and other excipients, kneaded, twisted together with two or three strands of noodles, fried in oil and then stirred in melted rock sugar, golden color, crispy and sweet.
Orange red cake
Orange red cake is a characteristic traditional cake processed with glutinous rice as the main ingredient, with a crystal clear appearance, warm as jade, small and cute, tender and elastic texture.
The taste is sweet and delicious, sweet but not greasy, and with a touch of light mint refreshing, you can't help but taste it.
Sauté rice sugar
Stir-fried rice, the year is coming. Fried rice candy, in the hearts of Wenzhou people, has an iconic significance. Every New Year's Day, this crispy little dessert has become the standard new year snack for children.
Peanut fried rice candy, sesame fried rice candy, corn fried rice candy... These Wenzhou rice sugar stir-fried goods series are one of the favorite snacks of Wenzhou people. Stir-fried rice is made of glutinous rice as the main ingredient, and the cooking method is mainly frosted, and the taste is sweet. The sautéed rice particles are even, shaped like bee pupae, moderately soft and hard, sweet and crispy.
Tinker candy
In Wenzhou, none of the children who love sugar can escape the temptation of "ding-ding candy". "Ding-ding candy" is actually maltose, and the sugar seller will use a small shovel and a small hammer to crush the freshly made maltose piece by piece, and then sprinkle it with a fine powder made of fried rice to avoid sticking to the sugar cubes. Because when the candy seller knocks on the small shovel and the small hammer, it will always make a "ding-ding" sound, so it is also called "knocking sugar" or "ding-ding-candy".
The process of making maltose is more complicated, especially sugar, and the whole process of beating sugar is like a martial arts master practicing martial arts. Authentic Wenzhou maltose is very light, just in the mouth is the aroma of fried rice noodles, and then the special sweetness of maltose, biting down with a little sticky teeth.
Hibiscus candy
Hibiscus sugar, also known as Wenzhou Sachima, is made of white flour and eggs, pressed into a powdered skin, evenly and thinly, fried in lard into hibiscus flower slices, then plated with caramel syrup, sprinkled with osmanthus flowers, and cut into pieces.
The finished petals overlap, the layers are clear, the color is wheat yellow, delicate and shiny, the entrance is melted, and the mouth is full of sweet sweetness but there is no trouble with sticking teeth.
Ma Qiao
On the seventh of July, the magpie pecked. As the Wenzhou nursery rhymes say, Wenzhou people must eat Ma Qiao when they arrive at Qixi.
Ma Qiao, also known as Qiao Food. It is made of high-quality flour, brown sugar, lard, salt, soda and other raw materials, which are made into a tongue shape, dipped in sesame seeds, and fried in the pan. The finished product is crispy and fragrant, non-sticky, not on fire, pure taste, suitable for all ages.
Oil eggs
The crispy sesame flavor and the filling is also sesame oil eggs are the traditional snacks of Wenzhou. Although it is fried, it is oily but not greasy, and it cannot be stopped. As a member of the street food, when we were young, the oil eggs were fried and sold in small shops on the street, but now there are fewer people who make them, and they have to be carefully searched to find them.
The recipe for the oiled egg is very similar to the hemp balls in the field, with bean paste or black sesame filling in the glutinous rice flour balls, and the outside is covered with white sesame seeds, and the pan is fried into a golden crispy appearance. Tearing by hand, the skin is crunchy and will burst, the entrance, the aftertaste between the oil but not greasy, chewing, the oil egg skin is sticky but not sticky teeth, the sweet and soft taste overflows between the mouths, the inside is filled with filling, the heart sesame seeds, sweet and smooth.
Lard cake
Wenzhou lard cake, also known as fat oil cake, has been famous as early as the Qing Dynasty, and the Yuan he Wei Ting Zhi calls it "Wuzhong Jiazhi".
Lard cake is a thin glutinous rice ball made of glutinous rice and white sugar, fried in lard until the skin is crispy, sprinkled with some white sugar when eaten, and then wrapped in rice dumpling leaves, the mouth is not greasy. Lard cake is simple and simple, and has been loved by generations of Wenzhou people.
Double cooking cake
As the name suggests, double cake is a pastry made of two cooking. Glutinous rice flour with sugar and water is used to make a block sprinkled with osmanthus flowers for cooking once, and then the cake is cut into small pieces for secondary cooking, which has the characteristics of fine, soft, tough, fragrant, sweet, salty and salty.
More than 100 years ago, during the Qing Guangxu period, it was created by Li Ruiqing, the founder of Wenzhou Ruian Pastry Master Li Datong Tea Food Store, so it is also known as Li Datong Double Cooking Cake.
When you open the package, a refreshing fragrance of osmanthus blossoms comes to your nose, and the beige cake slices make people salivate. Tear off a slice and taste it, sweet and soft, after eating, there is still a lingering fragrance in the mouth.
Yueqing white elephant cake
White elephant fragrant cake, commonly known as plate cake, has a long history and began at the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is made by steaming glutinous rice flour as the main ingredient, sesame seeds, sugar and citrus cake as the auxiliary ingredients.
The cake is white and pure, the aroma is fragrant, the taste is soft, and the taste is sweet but not greasy.
Ice cream beaten eggs
Speaking of Wenzhou people's summer, it is necessary to have a bowl of ice cream to beat eggs. This is a unique way of eating wenzhou people, the method is quite simple, a raw egg directly into the milky and mellow ice cream, sprinkled with stir-fried sesame seeds. Different ages, the same will rejoice, the charm of old desserts.
The soul of the ice cream beaten egg is not ice cream or egg, but the sesame seeds sprinkled on it, each bite is full of sesame aroma, and the crispness of the sesame and the entrance of the ice cream complement each other perfectly.
Almond rot
In the eyes of Wenzhou people, the summer without almond rot is incomplete, it is processed with agar plus milk, sugar, water, etc., and the shape and tender taste of the finished product are very similar to tofu.
A rich bowl of almond rot that is about to overflow, add oranges, yellow peaches, mangoes, dried bayberry, raisins and other ingredients, and a cool almond rot on a hot afternoon, which both cools down and quenches thirst.
These desserts are the strongest nostalgia. The taste of each food is a reunion with the past time and memory. How long have you not eaten these tastes of your hometown, and what is interesting between you and these dessert pastries? Hurry up and share it with you in the message area!
Source: Wenzhou Cultural Tourism Information
Editing/Typography: Tu Wei