Farmer big brother Chang Rural is 48 years old this year, Shandong Binzhou people, Chang big brother and wife Liu Aizhi have an old craft, their family made pure handmade sesame crisp sugar has a hundred years of history, Chang big brother said, I have a son, now my son has also mastered this skill, to the son's generation has been passed down for five generations. Now our business is very good, in the peak season are in short supply, can sell nearly 200,000 boxes of sesame shortening a year, the annual sales reached 2 million yuan. The picture shows Chang Rural's eldest brother and wife Liu Aizhi making sesame shortening at the scene.
The workshop in Chang rural area is not large, usually it is the two sons of Chang Big Brother who lead the three masters to make shortbread. Brother Chang said that speaking of this sesame crisp candy, it can be described as a long history. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, due to the drought in his hometown, he was forced to flee to Yangliuqing Town in Tianjin because of the drought in his hometown, Chang Liting, the great-grandfather of Chang Dajie, where he rented land to cultivate and gave people a long-term job to make a living. Once the Shaodong family was sick, seeking medical treatment everywhere, helpless Langzhong was unwilling to come to the door to see a doctor, the great-grandfather knelt down to Langzhong, and moved Langzhong to come to the door to see the Shaodong family with sincerity. In order to thank him, the owner taught Chang Liting the ancestral craft of making sesame crisp candy.
The board of Chang Brother's workshop is filled with freshly made sesame shortening, and the aroma of sesame is overflowing, which makes people salivate. At that time, the great-grandfather Chang Liting lived in Tianjin for three years, and then returned to his hometown to continue to do the small business of sesame crisp candy, and passed on this craft to his son Chang Baoqing, unfortunately Chang Baoqing died at the age of 40, in order not to let the craft be lost, it was passed on to his grandson Chang Yunluan. On the occasion of his death, great-grandfather Chang Liting blessed his grandson Chang Yunluan to pass on the craft!
Changjia crisp candy façade is not large, but the wine aroma is not afraid of the deep alley. Because the crisp sugar is rich in flavor, crisp and delicious, it is deeply loved by locals. Chang brother said that this sesame shortening is too fine, very crisp, not easy to transport long distances, so basically only sold locally, but now there are often foreign friends to watch the production of sesame shortening, and buy some to bring back for the family to taste, Changjia sesame shortening has also gone abroad!
Chang Brother said that pure handmade sesame shortening is our family skill, there is a complete set of production process, roughly divided into 6 steps of work: sesame peeling, frying, crushing, boiling sugar, stretching, pulling, drawing, of which the last three steps are the key processes. Now the sesame shortbread has been gradually improved from the original single flavor, and has developed into different flavors such as walnut, osmanthus flower, hawthorn and so on. The picture shows Chang big brother boiling sugar, which is a very critical process, the fire mouth of sugar is not well mastered, and the sesame shortening sugar is not delicious.
Chang Brother said that boiling four or five pots of sugar every day is a technical job, generally not passed on. He said that at that time, his father Chang Yunluan remembered the instructions of his great-grandfather, and in the 1980s, he was hired by the Binzhou Grain and Oil Food Factory to make sesame shortening, and the sesame shortening he made was crispy, sweet but not greasy, and the shortbread sold well everywhere and was deeply loved by the masses. Later, Chang Yunluan passed on this skill to me and my brother.
In the countryside, the boiled syrup is poured on a special board. Chang Brother said that sesame shortening is the most hygienic, can not have a little dirty stuff, otherwise it will affect the taste. Sesame seeds should be selected from the best good sesame seeds, and the cleaning before peeling the sesame seeds is also very exquisite, otherwise it will affect the quality of the shortbread.
After waiting for the syrup temperature to drop, Brother Chang used a knife to pile up the syrup on the board, and the syrup looked very transparent.
Brother Chang piled up the syrup into a ball to prepare for the sugar.
Big Brother Chang began to beat sugar, this process is not only a technical work, but also a hard work. Big Brother Chang beat the sugar up and down, looking like he was performing on stage.
Big Brother Chang beat the candy and flew up and down.
After more than ten minutes of beating sugar, the red syrup turned into a white sugar block.
Put the beaten sugar into the fried sesame iron pot, bury the sugar in the sesame seeds, and keep the iron pot at a certain temperature, so that the sugar cannot be hardened.
Chang Rural Big Brother led the masters to make crisp candy together. Brother Chang grabbed a small piece of sugar on the sugar cube and dipped sesame seeds in the sesame pot.
The sugar cube flipped in The hand of Big Brother Chang turned a few times and came out with a hairy sugar shred, I felt really magical!
Brother Chang said that such a sesame shortbread has more than 32,000 silks, which is why the shortbread is delicious.
A box of shortbread has such six rolls of shortbread, sesame flavored shortbread often sells for 11 yuan a box, walnut flavor sells for 12 yuan a box. I savored it, and it was a taste I had eaten as a child.
Often rural big brother old craft to make crisp candy won the honor.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and it is also the busiest time for Big Brother Chang, and the supply of sesame shortening is in short supply. The picture shows the masters in The workshop of Big Brother Chang moving goods. Blessings to the old craftsmanship of the big brother in the countryside have a long history, and I hope that more people can eat this delicious shortbread.