Baked cakes in my hometown

Baked cakes are common snacks and snacks made of flour, which are common in northern Jiangsu, either filling meals or entertaining guests, despite being just flavor snacks, they are also elegant in my hometown.

Invite your beloved relatives and friends in the morning, get together in a teahouse and hold a purple sand teapot in your hand. Throughout the world, you can sip fragrant tea and taste pancakes at the same time, which is a great enjoyment and a great joy in life. However, in order to achieve such a state and a high degree of baked cakes, in terms of taste and quality, it must be hometown baked cakes!

People all know that Huangqiao Sesame Cake is the most famous, but in fact, Huangqiao Sesame Cake traces his roots to his hometown. According to the older generation, Huangqiao Sesame Cake learned his craftsmanship from his hometown master. This remark is only a legend, in the end whether it is true or false, the author has not made a textual research, but the hometown baked cake is the most famous, can be seen, in short, the hometown baked cake can be called the best cake.

When I was a child, my family was financially OK. "it was less than the top, but more than the bottom." I could buy five pancakes for a dime. When I went to school in the morning, I often used pancakes to satisfy my hunger. Therefore, I have special feelings for baked cakes in my hometown.

Hometown baked cake is characterized by crisp outside and crisp inside, fragrance, yellow, golden can, "color and smell" are all good, sultry appetite.

The front door of my house faces the street, and it is opposite the door of a bakery, which is only a foot away from the slate street, where "chickens and dogs know each other."

I have a panoramic view of every move in the pancake shop. For a long time, osmosis, gradually familiar with the production process of this pancake.

In fact, the ingredients for baking pancakes are prepared the day before, including stuffing such as pickled vegetables, shredded radish, shrimp, oil dregs, white sugar, and auxiliary ingredients such as sesame and sugar. Cut what should be cut, and wash what should be washed. Among them, especially the leaven of flour, the kung fu is the most visible.

First of all, the high-quality flour of the whole loan should be poured into a wide-mouth vat and mixed with water, and then an old master "shirtless", constantly kneading and pressing, turning over and over again, and then spreading it again and again after being glued together. I do not know how many times after repeated, pancake yeast can be considered to meet the requirements, and people who do not have a certain amount of physical strength and endurance are not qualified for this job.

In the process of fermentation, it is also necessary to put in the old fermentation, mixed with a certain proportion of alkali water, some people say it is to prevent acid, some people say it is to improve the taste. Then, cover the cloth and let it ferment overnight.

Up to now, I do not understand the role of stone alkali in fermentation.

The next day, I was still lingering in a deep sleep. There was already a lot of noise in the street, and the pancake shop was busy and began to make a living all day. By the time I came to the pancake shop, the peak of the morning market had passed. Instead of buying cold "leftovers", I had to "wait and wait", and waiting would run the risk of being late for school, so it often put me in a dilemma.

The pastry maker's upper body is naked, with a white apron tied around his waist. The pastry is skillful and sophisticated, both sharp and standard, all like the "desperate Saburo" in the Water margin. I saw his hands flying up and down in the hot furnace chamber, bow left and right, like moths to the fire, but also like taking chestnuts from the fire!

"clap!" "clap!" "clap!" A few crisp sounds, "three to five to two", effortlessly, in the blink of an eye, the thirty scones have obediently "camped" around the furnace wall.

Those pastry makers are all shirtless and sweaty in the summer, with only a pair of fat shorts, and their faces and sturdy arms are often flushed by the carbon fire.

Pancake jealousy is often surrounded by many diners waiting to pick up the goods. While appreciating the excellent skills of the pastry maker, they kept making marvelous sounds of amazement.

I have been away from my hometown for 50 years, and many dusty past events have become a thing of the past. Only the taste of my hometown is still engraved in my memory.

In order to soothe Luo Yuan's homesickness, whenever I see familiar pancakes in a foreign country, I can't restrain the surging torrent of emotion. I have to buy one or two and try them!

However, very disappointed! For some reason, there is no place where the baked cakes have the natural beauty, quality and taste of their hometown.

To be so delicate, so authentic, so elegant, so delicious and fragrant, so famous everywhere!

Author: Ma Dingqi