Huizhou baked cake, also known as "crab shell yellow baked cake", "rescue driving baked cake", "huangyin baked cake", is a traditional famous food of the Han people in Huizhou, Anhui, which is popular in the ancient Huizhou area and some surrounding areas. The above-class refined flour, net fat meat, meganlai, sesame seeds, refined salt, vegetable oil and other handmade skins and fillings are made by more than 10 processes such as noodles, kneading noodles, puff pastry, picking, skin making, filling, finishing, rolling cakes, brushing, sprinkling, baking and so on.
The traditional Huizhou baked cake is carried out in a special furnace, with charcoal burned inside, the cake blank is attached to the inner wall of the furnace, baked, stewed, and baked after the fire is cleared, before and after a few hours. Because it is roasted by charcoal fire, it is shaped like a crab back shell and the color is like crab yellow, so it got its name. Its baked cake layers are many and thin, thick in appearance, fragrant in taste, sweet, spicy, crisp and crispy.
Most of the Huizhou baked cakes are now made using machines such as ovens, and then use sealing technology to facilitate sales and take-out. The shelf life at room temperature is 15 to 30 days. Today, I walked into the "Han Baiqi" baked cake company located in Shexian County to explore the modern baked cake production process.
Machine skin
Huizhou roast cake filling is similar, basically composed of net fat meat, plum dry lai, sesame seeds, refined salt, vegetable oil and other ingredients.
Even the stuffing is done by machine.
Sprinkle with sesame seeds and brush the surface with vegetable oil.
Prepare the cake blanks for the oven
Freshly baked baked cakes in the oven
Due to the long baking time, most of the moisture in the cake evaporates, which is conducive to storage, even if it is damp, it is still crispy after baking, and it is hungry. Zhu Yuanzhang often used burnt cakes as dry food when marching and fighting, and called himself empress, and in memory of the merits of Huizhou burning cakes to protect the country and save the driver, he was canonized as "saving the baked cakes".
The origin of "Imperial Seal Baked Cake": According to legend, when the Qianlong Emperor first went down to Jiangnan, the head of the famous "Two Huai Eight General Merchants" in the Qing Dynasty, and the Huizhou man Jiang Chun, who was known as "making friends with the Son of Heaven with Cloth", planned Zhang Luo to receive, and Jiang Chun took over the first tea was composed of Jiang Chun's Huizhou team composed of a family cooking team composed of him carefully designed and collectively developed the baked cake, its outer layer was crisp, the inside was moist and fragrant, and the chewing was delicious, which made Qianlong Dun of Zhouma Laoton feel comfortable and mentally comfortable, his spirit was multiplied, and he gladly gave the name "Huangyin Baked Cake".
"Han Baiqi" baked cake founder Han Baiqi is Xiuning "baked cake village" five towns Yanxi village people, from his grandfather engaged in the baked cake industry, Han Baiqi in 2001 to Shexian in the ancient city of Zhongshan Lane stall business, often driven by the city management, and his wife often carry a baked cake stove around the streets, after 15 years of fighting, now grown into a modern enterprise. Several chain stores have been opened in the city, and many online stores have ordered from him, and 100,000 burnt cakes are bought a day in the peak season.
Cheng Bing, a member of the Standing Committee of the Shexian County CPC Committee, wrote a poem inscription for his enterprise: "Huizhou burnt cake Han Baiqi, Shexiu two places passed on the intangible cultural heritage." Houde carrier tree brand, integrity distribution raises the flag. ”