China Network Beautiful Changshu News: Guli Town, a famous historical and cultural town in Changshu, China, here is a taste, after 8 generations, it has been preserved for 220 years. Xu Yutai, the "old taste" of Changshu pastries!
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Xu Yutai, Wang Futai, Shen Dingshun, Wang Dachang and Tianlu, five families engaged in the pastry business, formed a pastry gang to migrate from Nanjing to Changshu. After more than 220 years of vicissitudes, the other four families have long changed careers, but the Xu Yutai family has been adhering to pastries for 8 generations and the inheritance is endless.
Xu Yutai is most famous for its wine cakes, known as "Guli wine cakes". At that time, the mother of Qu Liangshi, the fourth generation owner of the Tieqin Bronze Sword Building, went out to visit relatives and friends, and Mr. Qu Lao ordered 500 wine cakes at once, so that his mother could take them to send.
Xu Yutai's "sake cake" process is slightly different from that of ordinary cake shops, in addition to using homemade sake brewing, it also uses an exclusive ancestral secret recipe in the process of brewing wine and flour mixing. 20 years ago, Xu Sheng inherited his father to become the 8th generation of Xu Yutai cake dumplings, and also inherited this "ancestral craft".
The well-stirred dough is placed on a board to ferment, and when it has matured to a certain extent, it is cut with a knife, kneaded into long strips, pulled into a small piece, and then rolled out.
After wrapping the skin into the filling, it is rounded and flattened, and in order to distinguish the varieties, a little filling is placed on the semi-finished cake surface as a "mark".
Drizzle the vegetable oil on the bottom of the heated pot, put the semi-finished cake and fry it for a while, then turn over and pour the vegetable oil again, fry for a while, lift the lid of the pot, a fragrance gushes out from the stove, straight to the heart, and the golden "sake cake" on both sides is freshly baked.
Xu Yutai's pastries are varied and satisfy the flavors of the four seasons.
After the Spring Festival, the main signature wine brewed cake, there are roses, pickles, bean paste, sesame seeds and other varieties, salty, sweet. Take a bite, the outer skin is crisp, the inside is soft, full of flavor, the taste is very refreshing.
In summer and autumn, the main products are baked slice cake, rice cake, pan cake, horseshoe puff pastry, ice and snow crisp, fresh meat dumplings and so on. The ice and snow puff pastry, which is carefully steamed with glutinous rice stir-fried, ground flour, and then added with cotton sugar, mint juice and other accessories, is always in short supply!
On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sales of Su-style mooncakes doubled, and there were as many as six or seven kinds of fillings, such as hundred fruits, five kernels, bean paste, pretzels, egg yolks, sesame seeds, and fresh meat. Among them, the sweet filling is carefully stir-fried with high-quality ingredients, and the fresh meat filling is the local pork hind leg meat bought from the south gate of the city early that day, plus ginger and shallots and other ingredients. (In fact, mooncakes are available all year round~)
Xu Yutai mainly focuses on cakes in winter, including large steamed cakes, square cakes, happy cakes, and Dingsheng cakes. Made of glutinous rice, sugar, osmanthus flowers, plate oil, bean paste, egg yolks and other innovative cakes, the appearance is snow white and crystalline, and the taste is sweet and refreshing.
In addition to the above, Xu Yutai also has peanut candy, sesame candy, miter cut, pot, twist flower, peach crisp cat ears, shallot oil cake, brown sugar cake, white sugar cake, stall cake, west silk cake, matchmaker cake, pretzel cake and other pastries, which can be selected throughout the year.
Xu Yutai pastry selects high-quality glutinous rice raw materials, the dates, red dates, egg yolks, walnut meat, pine nut meat, pumpkin seed meat, pork plate oil, etc. are selected as accessories, using traditional methods such as hand-stir-frying, mixing, and cutting, while combining Western methods, increasing the beauty and aroma of the pastries, paying attention to color, aroma and shape.
Xu Yutai's pastries are full of solid ingredients, fresh and shiny in color, and eat a mouthful of sweet, soft and sticky.
In more than a hundred years, generation after generation of Xu's craftsmen have not changed the old taste of a hundred years in the change of time.
(Source: Neo-Guri newinold)
Changshu,
It is Huang Gongwang's splashed ink landscape,
It is the aftersound of Yan Tianchi's piano,
It is Zhang Xu's dashing and uninhibited grass,
It is a clear sentence between the lines in Qian Qianyi's poem.
Often come to Changshu and find different surprises~