Recently, with the popularity of "Flavor of the World", a classic snack of Jiangnan has been popular, crab shell yellow! Talking about the origin of crab shell yellow, it was produced at a dim sum stall in old Changzhou. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, after Changzhou was listed as a foreign trade port, it successively absorbed the essence of local flavor snacks, including the characteristics of major places in the country, and developed and improved to form its own characteristics, and crab shell yellow also appeared. Gradually, crab shell yellow also spread to Shanghai. It has become one of the famous snacks in gangnam.
However, just like there is no wife in the wife cake, is the crab shell yellow not related to the crab at all? According to research, in the early years, crab shell yellow was a high-end snack, and the rich family would take it out to entertain guests when they were feasting. Among them, there is a master who pays attention to the crab shell yellow, who will add crab powder to this crab shell yellow and call it: crab yellow cake. Later, no one used crab flour anymore, because when this small baked cake came out, it was the size of a hairy crab in Yangcheng Lake, roasted to a golden brown, as if it had just been steamed, so it got its name: crab shell yellow.
Crab shell yellow is simply a mini sesame roast cake. The burnt bread in the north is often the staple food of the hungry, and it is a great pleasure to eat. And Jiangnan's baked cake, pay attention to a delicate, so-called dim sum, ordered so far, the icing on the cake.
Unlike the Su-style mooncake, crab shell yellow is made of hair oil puff pastry, and the filling is not much, just to add some flavor. Delicious, mainly in the crispy dough, and full of burnt yellow sesame seeds, as if only steamed crab shells. In memory, the crab shell yellow of the old bottom is always salty and sweet, the skin is crispy and crispy, and some people write poems praising it as "smelling the incense before seeing the cake family, and the puff pastry in the mouth is down". Crab shell yellow is salty and sweet. Generally sweet to make a round, the filling is mainly lard sugar, bean paste, date paste, etc.; salty for the oval, filling is green onion oil, fresh meat and so on.
Crab shell yellow to be delicious is not so easy. First of all, it must be crispy, but the puff pastry cannot be scattered in one bite. Sweet crab shell yellow to eat full of flavor, chewing must not have rough teeth sugar granules taste, the sugar water inside can not be baked until dry. To make the sugar water come out, it is exactly the melt in the puff pastry, but not so wet that the cake is boneless.
The salty crab shell yellow should be eaten with lard aroma and green onion aroma, and you can also eat a mouthful of wet and soft shallot white segments. It is also important that the layer with the core is impartial in the middle. The ideal state is that the layer of sesame seeds is the same distance as the bottom layer reaching the middle.
Crab shell yellow has a rich texture, but it is not as full as a flatbread. Crab shell yellow must be eaten while hot, bite down, the aroma of sesame seeds and fillings comes to the nose, it is really crispy, fragrant and crispy. In the cold winter, buy a freshly baked crab shell yellow cake at the stall and eat it, hot, fragrant, and sprinkled with sesame seeds. Now that you think about the taste, have you started to drool?