Chaozhou curd cake is one of the famous cakes in Chaozhou, Guangdong. Its aroma is rich, sweet but not greasy, and it is the best in cake food.
Quality features:
Teochew curd cake is soft and fragrant, has a peculiar taste, and is one of the famous foods. Curd cake is small in shape, with a unique smell of southern milk, garlic and alcohol, the aroma is rich, sweet but not greasy, it is the best in cake food, and the ingredients for curd milk cake are strange and diverse.
nutritive value:
1. Flour is rich in protein. The general content is 10%-13%, which is higher than that of rice. However, in wheat protein, the content of lysine, arginine, histidine and methionine that are essential to our human body is relatively low. Therefore, when we eat pasta, we should supplement these foods with high nutrient content to achieve nutritional complementarity and ensure a healthy diet.
2, flour also contains certain minerals and vitamins. Its minerals are mainly distributed in the surface layer of the wheat grain, while the vitamins are mainly distributed in the germ and surface layer.
3. Flour is rich in carbohydrates. This part of the nutrient is mainly found in the endosperm of the wheat grain, that is, refined flour.
4, flour also contains a certain amount of fat. It is mainly found in the germ part of the wheat grain, followed by bran and the least endosperm. The fat in the grain is mostly unsaturated fatty acids, which are essential fatty acids for the human body, which have the effect of maintaining the normal physiological function of cells, reducing blood viscosity, improving blood circulation, improving brain cell activity and enhancing memory.
Therapeutic value:
Wheat taste sweet, cool, into the heart, spleen, kidney meridian; nourish the heart, benefit the kidneys, remove heat, quench thirst;
Indications for the treatment of irritability, irritability, thirst, diarrhea, carbuncles, traumatic bleeding and burns.
History and culture
The famous Teochew small scavenger cake has an interesting legend in Teochew folk. It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Ding monopoly owner in Chaozhou who was very harsh on the workers he hired, and often did not pay for them.
One year is coming, a teacher who works in a cake workshop, thinking that he has not been paid for many months, the new year is coming, I am afraid that by the end of the year I will not get a penny, the more I think about it, the more Angry, after an evening of work, the teacher Fu will put all the raw materials for making cakes in the workshop, peanuts, sesame seeds, white pork, garlic, milk, flour, sugar oil, wine, etc., put away the ancient brain, poured into a large vat, and stirred vigorously, and then packed up and angrily left the rich man's house. A few days later, The rich man Ding could not find this teacher everywhere, and the wife of the rich man Ding opened the door of the workshop and suddenly smelled a special fragrance, which actually came from the teacher Fu in order to vent his anger and pour the raw materials into the tank as garbage, and the wife of the rich man Ding made the raw materials in the tank as stuffing and made cakes to sell, and the business was very prosperous.
Later, the Ding rich man's family made a pie according to the ingredients in the tank, because the taste of the southern milk was particularly prominent, so this kind of cake was called curd milk cake (south milk is also called red curd milk and red tribute rot in Chaozhou).
method
Curd cake, made of fine flour into the crust, filling in the white pork to be carefully cut into diced meat, etc., a total of more than fourteen kinds of ingredients, in the production is also very elaborate, feeding orderly, baking also has a rule, so that the crust is thin and not cracked, the filling is full without revealing dry and moist.
ingredient:
Flour, glutinous rice, peanuts, sesame seeds, diced white meat, minced garlic, southern milk, rice wine, powdered sugar.
steps:
1. Preparation of curd cake filling. After baking the glutinous rice, it is ground into a young powder, which is called cake flour; the peanut kernels are fried until fragrant and the young grains are crushed; the sesame seeds are stir-fried; and the white pork is first marinated with white sugar and then cut into young cubes.
2, put peanut kernels, sesame seeds, diced white meat in a large basin, add minced garlic, whole pieces of southern milk, adjust the appropriate amount of rice wine, powdered sugar, cake powder, and then add the appropriate amount of peanut oil (or lard), stir well, it becomes the filling of the curd cake.
3. The production of curd cake crust. Add an appropriate amount of flour soda, eat soda ash, sift through a dense sieve, and then add oil and sugar oil (sugar oil is to put sugar into the pot, add a small amount of water, dissolve it with slow heat), and knead vigorously.
4: After filling the made leather bag, use the cake print to form, brush the cake surface with egg paste, and bake it in the oven for about 5 minutes. It should be noted that in the process of baking, take out the middle and pour some peanut oil on the bottom of the baking plate, which is also the same as when we fry things, we have to add some oil to the pan in the middle