The favorite food in old Beijing-sesame seed cake

Every morning, besides steaming white steamed bread, there are sesame biscuits to wake up Beijingers!

In Beijing, sesame seeds are indispensable for breakfast barbecue hot pot, and they also eat sesame seeds. Salt and pepper biscuits, sesame paste biscuits, beef biscuits, elbow biscuits ...

Sesame cake is an important food for Beijingers, and it is also a versatile food.

Sesame cake with meat, sesame cake with crispness, sesame cake with stuffing.

Roasted sesame for barbecue, roasted sesame for mutton offal, roasted sesame for tripe and roasted sesame for hot pot.

Salt and pepper biscuits, sesame paste biscuits, beef biscuits, elbow biscuits ...

In ancient China, Han people called people from the western regions "conference semifinals", and they used to take what they sold.

Sesame cakes are thus called "Hu cakes".

Sesame cakes are said to have been brought back by Ban Chao from the Western Regions.

Emperor Han Lingdi was the biggest fan of sesame seed cake (then called "Hu cake").

Bai Juyi once wrote a poem for his beloved sesame seed cake: "Sesame seed cake is like Kyoto, and its surface is crisp and oily." I gave it to the hungry Ambassador Yang, and it seemed to be a blessing. "

Across two thousand years, no matter what, north and south, from kings to civilians, they have been captured by the charm of baked wheat cakes!

Encounter the original strength such as rinse meat, big elbow, baked wheat cake can easily turn them into supporting roles, which can be regarded as Mary Su in the food industry.

There is a layer of sesame seeds on the surface of sesame seed cake.

When mixing dough, add salt, pepper and fennel powder.

Many sesame biscuits made by foreigners look quite similar.

But it tastes different.

Because they didn't know fennel was added to the sesame cake.

In old Beijing, sesame cakes can be respected, which reveals the philosophy of life of Beijingers.

An old man once said that when eating sesame cakes, you should eat them horizontally in one hand and hold them in the other.

Sesame facing outwards means that Beijingers respect things.

Being a man has an inner face, an inner face and an outer face, and so does eating.

In Beijing's sesame seed cake circle, sesame seed cake is the most sought-after existence, and no one in Beijing says that they don't like it.

The staple food for eating hot pot is sesame paste sesame seed cake in old Beijing.

At that time, it was called "sesame cake shop". Large-scale Muslim restaurants sell roast instant-boiled mutton every autumn, and the staple food is mostly sesame cakes.

Roasted mutton with sesame seeds, fried eggs with beef sauce and fried eggs are all delicious meals.

Small sesame seed cake, the outermost layer is full of sesame seeds.

Taking advantage of the hot white mouth, it is crisp and fragrant, and the layers of sesame sauce are salty and fragrant.

Old Beijingers love to eat biscuits with meat.

Some temple fairs in old Beijing in the past

"How to eat biscuits with meat is not enough." "If you want to eat mutton biscuits, it's up to you." "If you are hungry, go outside the temple to eat sesame cakes with meat."

Making cakes with meat is the "patent" of old Beijingers' diet.

It doesn't make sense

But if it is the favorite food of old Beijingers,

Then it is said to be the traditional food of old Beijing.

Probably no one raised any objection.

Sesame cake with meat refers to hot sesame cake that has just been baked.

"Meat" can be diversified, such as cooked pig's head meat, sauce beef, sauce mutton, elbow meat and so on.

It is not impossible to eat a hot sesame seed cake with meat now.

But sesame cakes are basically not baked or sold now.

Drinking bean juice with white horseshoe biscuits and inby is authentic.

White horseshoe is a dough with two skins, more than two inches in diameter, and the sesame seeds on the cake surface are sparse and salty.

The horseshoe-shaped sesame seed cake is slightly larger, flatter and less sesame than the sesame seed cake, which looks like the horseshoe-shaped cuffs on the imperial robes of Qing officials.

The baked sesame seed cake is golden and full, crisp outside and tender inside, with a fragrant smell. When it was torn, it was two skins, and the space in the middle happened to be inby.

Walking in the old streets of Beijing, it is easy to see the old-fashioned dim sum shop selling old Beijing sugar fire.

Most of them are old people or with grandchildren.

When several neighbors met, they clearly knew they were coming to buy breakfast, but they politely asked, "Have you eaten?" .

Then wait in line to chat for a while, and when the new sugar fire is cooked, buy a bag and go home.

-can sell six or seven thousand biscuits every day.

Per capita: 12 yuan

Address:No.10-1Chang Ying Ethnic Home, Chaoyang District, Beijing (near the north wall of the mosque) (Chang Ying Ethnic Home Store)

There is a biscuit shop that has been open for 40 years. Just selling beef biscuits and sesame sauce (vegetarian) biscuits can sell six or seven thousand a day. Five start eating here, and twenty pack and go!

By the end of the week, customers in the surrounding outer suburbs also came by bus and car, and 10 thousand was so easy. It is estimated that even the Shaxian snack next door will envy you!

Beef biscuits are crispy and stylish, and people can't stop smelling them; Sesame biscuits are crisp outside and tough inside, with distinct layers.

1.2 A baked wheat cake looks ordinary, and it's shocking to cut it open! What is a Melaleuca cake? I can do it with a big sesame cake!

Solid, brown and crisp skin, soft core. Pure sesame sauce and wheat flavor make people chew more and more fragrant, and even impatient people can't help but taste its fullness.

Another special beef biscuit, the crispy skin is covered with full sesame seeds.

Just looking at the face and smelling the fragrance from a distance is quite attractive.

Take a bite of DC oil from the freshly baked beef biscuit, and be careful of the gravy burning your mouth!

Diners will also order a bowl of mutton offal soup or soak beans.

Have a bite of sesame seed cake and a sip of soup with moderate salinity.

I feel warm and much more comfortable after eating.

-It's unbearably hot

Per capita: 2 1 yuan.

Address: No.56 Liyuan Road, West Third Ring Road, Fengtai District, Beijing (in the hutong on the north side of Gong Yuyupo)

It is common to wait for 20 minutes in order to eat hot old four biscuits!

And it's only open until noon in case someone in front buys too much ... I don't want to talk about the consequences.

The baked wheat cake just out of the pot is crisp and slag-dropping, which is not only hot but also hot.

Fat elbows will overflow, and the weight will not only make people laugh but also eat their stomachs.

You must open your mouth and take a bite!

Hot cakes and cold meat once again form a wonderful taste.

The hot air in the cake melted the elbow meat, which was neither oily nor greasy.

Cooking cakes with thin skin and thick meat are served with a bowl of bean soup or mutton offal soup.

Must like it!

-the first in the hearts of Tongzhou people

Per capita: 28 yuan

Address: South Gate of Gelan Qingtian Community, Yuqiao West Road, Tongzhou District, Beijing (East intersection of Asia-Pacific Garden)

Xihaizi Xiyuan baked wheat cake with meat is the first baked wheat cake in Tongzhou people's hearts. Unfortunately, as a state-owned enterprise, it is impossible to open a branch! Let countless fans cry and grab the land, and they can only honestly transfer a few cars to eat.

Unlike the sesame seed cake introduced before, the sesame seed cake here is not sesame paste but flour cake.

Just out of the pot, the crispy skin has a thick sesame fragrance, and the indifferent face of the state-run elder sister is simply neglected. It's serious to eat crispy sesame cakes that have just been baked.

2 yuan a biscuit is loud and chewy, and eating it alone is also a kind of happiness. Not to mention elbow meat, it is going to heaven!

50 yuan can order several pairs of elbow meat himself, or buy a set of clips directly. 12 yuan.

Different from Chinese hamburger, there is no such thing as green pepper in sesame seed cake meat, only the elbow meat with strong, fat, thin skin and rotten skin!

Take a big bite, salty elbow and soft sesame cake taste twice as good!

Order a noodle soup, noodle soup with sesame seeds cake and meat, perfect.

-Sesame cakes and hotpot are a perfect match.

Per capita: 104 yuan

Address: No.5-2, Building 1 niujie Xili Commercial Building, Xicheng District, Beijing (niujie Beikou Branch)

To be a treasure source of rinse meat, it is natural to have baked wheat cakes. His baked wheat cake is not big, but it is crisp and delicious, and its appearance is exquisite.

Someone went to Jubaoyuan just to eat sesame cakes, claiming that it was the best of all the sesame cakes he had ever eaten, and there was no one!

Even if the mutton is 90% full in the end, you should have a sesame seed cake.

Small thick sesame seed cake, broken into layers of soft lining, a thick sesame paste completely integrated into the dough.

Those who once said that I only take one bite, after the first bite, I can't stop.

If it is not limited, Jubaoyuan may turn into a biscuit shop!

Brittle to death

Per capita: 53 yuan

Address: No.0/9, Yaer Hutong, Houhai, Xicheng District, Beijing (30 meters northwest of Houhai Yinding Bridge)

Sesame cakes are crisp, layer by layer.

The smell of sesame paste and sesame makes people very appetizing.

There is meat in the sesame seed cake, and a lot of meat is given.

1A bowl of mutton offal soup in 8 yuan is super full, and there is no flavor of haggis at all. It's delicious!