Ripe pear crisp jujube paste, sour mill cake, red fruit and chocolate taste the best?

The taste in every Tianjin's childhood memory must be ripe pear crisp. In the wooden mold with a high base, the "buzzing" sound of ripe pear crisp is a unique memory of children growing up in Tianjin.

Tianjin cooked pear cake, also known as Zaner cake since ancient times, is deeply loved by children and is cheap and good. It is a typical ancient river transport culture. There is a poem about Zaner cake in "A Hundred Odes to Food in the Old Capital": "It's strange to make cakes with stools, and the hands and sugar noodles are blowing dust. A loud cry across the street persuaded the children to buy it.

There is also a poem "Zhuzhi Ci", which was published in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. Among them, the ripe pear crisp is described quite vividly, that is, "the fruit stuffing is fresh and wants to be steamed, and the sound is around the ears." I want to eat the ripe pear crisp in my mouth now, which tastes like the ancients, but it's quite interesting.

It's a ripe pear cake. Tianjin's ripe pear crisp is ground into powder with rice, put in wooden retort one by one, steamed for four or five minutes, put on a tray made of paper plates or pancakes after it is cooked, and wrapped with small stuffing of various flavors. From the earliest bean paste sugar to the innovative matcha Oreo, there are more and more patterns of cooked pear crisp.

The uniqueness of ripe pear crisp This kind of ripe pear crisp looks like some cakes in Jiangnan at first glance, but in fact, Tianjin ripe pear crisp has the unique personality of northern culture. Ground rice is chewy, with various flavors and sauces. In my memory, the vendors carrying the pole shouted, which attracted the children to form a circle and rushed to come. Ripe pear crisp is sweet and delicious. Children used to eat it for breakfast, but they still felt full even after eating it. They were dubbed by their parents as "jasmine for camels"

There are four flavors of cooked pear crisp in my memory-red fruit, red bean paste, sour mill cake and white sugar. Today, this is still a must-have classic. Pear crisp made as a child also has an edible tray, which is often dubbed as "big cake dipping sauce". Now, ripe pear crisp has become more and more fashionable with the development of the times. There are various fillings in the rice stuffing, such as matcha powder, Oreo slices, black rice flour, etc. Most of the plates filled with ripe pear crisp are replaced with customized plastic lunch boxes.

When I come to Tianjin, I still want to taste this cooked pear crisp. It is not only a brightly colored snack, but also a taste that has been precipitated by time and remembered by the ancestors of the old Tianjin people.