Sentence of tasting Jinyun sesame seed cake

To say that Jinyun's most famous snack is definitely the first one to promote "Jinyun sesame seed cake". Jinyun sesame seed cake is famous not only because it is delicious and nutritious, but also because it has a long history and profound cultural heritage.

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The inherent characteristics of color, fragrance, taste, freshness and nutrition are the important reasons why Jinyun sesame cakes are famous all over the country. Look at the freshly baked sesame seed cake, steaming, like a faint mist; The brown surface is shiny, and the scattered sesame seeds are faintly fragrant. After high-temperature barbecue, the cake body is made of wheat, meat, onion, dried vegetables, sesame seeds and sugar, which comes from a simple nose. Before the cake was eaten, it was delicious. Take a bite, the skin is crisp, the inside is soft and waxy, the salt is moderate, the oil is not greasy, the taste is delicious and the aftertaste is endless. It's really a delicious snack with good color and flavor. In particular, when Jinyun sesame seed cake is baked, the furnace wall and charcoal fire are heated at the same time. However, due to the barrier of the shell, the fat in the meat stuffing is boiled with the increase of heat, so that the inner stuffing slowly receives heat until it is cooked. This not only makes Jinyun sesame cake crispy outside but waxy inside, but more importantly, it preserves protein, vitamins, meat, dried vegetables, onion leaves and other nutrients. According to the instrumental determination, Jinyun sesame seed cake is rich in fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other components, which has a strong function of invigorating the middle warmer and benefiting qi, and is a good health food.

Jinyun sesame seed cake is known as "Jinyun flavor snack" because of its delicious taste and rich nutrition, because of its exquisite materials and unique and scientific traditional baking skills.

The main raw materials of Jinyun sesame seed cake are flour, pork and dried vegetables, and the auxiliary materials are onion, sesame and sugar oil. These raw materials are characterized by the word "earth", such as flour, which is made of local wheat flour produced by farmers in this county, fresh local pork slaughtered by farmers, sugar and oil cooked with maltose, and even charcoal for barbecue, which is generally made of "white charcoal" in kiln. As for the choice of dried vegetables, it is more particular. Because there are many kinds of dried mustard in Jinyun, such as dried mustard and dried cabbage. Dried mustard is divided into general dried mustard and dried mustard (potherb mustard), and nine-headed dried mustard is the best local feature. Jinyun sesame seed cake, specially made nine-headed mustard tuber, is sauce-colored and mellow in nutrition. Its production method must be yellow after harvesting, then washed, chopped, dried in the sun to remove water, pickled (about 10 kg of vegetables10.5 kg of salt), dried in the sun, then pickled, steamed and dried (especially for many times) for later use.

One of the so-called unique and scientific traditional baking techniques of Jinyun sesame seed cake is a special cake bucket. The so-called "sesame cakes" in other parts of China are mostly baked in flat-bottomed iron pots. At best, it can only be called "pancake" Jinyun sesame seed cake is a unique sesame seed cake barrel created by Jinyun people and baked with charcoal fire, so it is a veritable "sesame seed cake", also called "bucket cake". The inner wall of the biscuit barrel is made of a special ceramic furnace, the outside is covered with Chinese fir, and the middle is filled with heat insulation material or soil; A grate, an ash leakage chamber and an air inlet are arranged below the hearth; The surface of the cake bucket is made of fir wood, with a diameter ruler in the middle, which can be used to place the top of the crock. The inner wall of the furnace is used for sticking cakes, and the grate at the bottom of the inner chamber is used for placing charcoal fires. What I want to say here is that the stove made of clay is shaped like a pottery jar with the lower part sawed off. It can be said that the head is ugly, but it must not be underestimated! Because this kind of production technology of pasting the cake blank in a ceramic stove and baking it with charcoal fire is almost a unique traditional skill of Jinyun people. Especially with the popularity of Jinyun sesame seed cake in various places, more and more people began to learn local or foreign baked sesame seed cake, which led to a substantial increase in the demand for stoves. There are few places where you can make pottery stoves. In addition, the Dongshan pottery cooktop in Jinyun Lake Town is fine in workmanship, durable, and especially important is moderate in thickness and uniform in heat transfer, so the baked sesame seeds are particularly crisp. So Dongshan pottery furnace became famous and sold well all over the country. It is said that some big furnace makers can buy six or seven thousand furnaces a month. The villagers in Dongshan proudly said, "There are still many people in our village who have never flown, but the stoves we make often fly to various places."

The second is tradition and fine workmanship. The meat of baked sesame seed cake is preferably fat and thin pork belly. When filling, first cut the pork belly into diced meat, mix in dried vegetables and chopped green onion, add appropriate seasoning as appropriate, and then stir evenly with chopsticks. At this time, the stuffing is infrared white, the dried vegetables are brown and black, and the chopped green onion is turquoise and colorful. The dough for making cakes should be mixed with boiling water (cold water in summer), fermented with "dough mother" and repeatedly kneaded to make it uniform and thorough. When making cake blanks, it is especially necessary to master the thickness uniformity of the upper and lower layers. After the cake blank is finished, the front side is coated with a layer of sugar oil and sprinkled with a small amount of black sesame seeds. The furnace must first smoke the inner wall with white charcoal fire to reach the right heat. Too hot or too cold, the cake won't stick together and fall into the stove. Pat the water on the back of the cake before pasting it into the oven. Don't be afraid of scalding when pasting, but move briskly. After pasting, the fire must be controlled to prevent the fire from burning too much or being too weak to "shelve". Special attention should be paid to prevent sesame seeds from falling into the bottom of the furnace and sticking to the ash. The simple Jinyun "sweet potato" is so meticulous and interlocking, and it has made colorful and delicious biscuits, which has made the famous "Jinyun sesame cake" brand.

Of course, when it comes to "Jinyun sesame seed cake", we have to mention its traditional "companion"-the "Jinyun noodle dumplings" known as "boiled without paste". Roasted sesame seeds are roasted with fire, boiled in wonton soup, dried and diluted, and you can never get tired of eating them. Therefore, Jinyun sesame seed cake shops (stalls) are generally engaged in noodle jiaozi.

Gundam 1989 "Jinyun sesame seed cake" won the first prize of Lishui Dim Sum Exhibition, and was also rated as high-quality dim sum (the best product level) by the Provincial Department of Commerce. In Jinyun, in the streets and alleys of villages and towns, in scenic spots, in front of the stage, even on the roadside and in pavilions, you can see sesame seed cake stalls. There are also many bakers who go out of the county to bake sesame cakes. According to the rough statistics in the early 1990s, there are more than 1000 people baking sesame cakes in Jinyun County. At present, there are thousands of people every year, with footprints all over the country. Every time I go out, whether in or out of the province, whether in the city or in the countryside, if I meet a sesame seed cake stall, I turn out to be a Jinyun person. Do you believe me?

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Jinyun sesame seed cake has a long history and profound cultural heritage.

According to legend, the production process of Jinyun sesame seed cake was invented by the alchemy of Xuanyuan Huangdi Jinyun Mountain. Legend has it that Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor, set up an alchemy furnace at Dinghu Peak in Jinyun Mountain. He was so absorbed in his body and mind that he didn't even leave for a moment to eat. The Yellow Emperor was so afraid to leave. But "people are iron rice steel, and they are hungry without eating a meal"! Finally, a clever minister made dough, presented it to the Yellow Emperor and distributed it to other ministers. So the princes and ministers were hungry, so they grabbed a piece of dough and stuck it on the wall of Dan furnace to bake and eat. After the Yellow Emperor descended the dragon into heaven in Xuanyuan, the local people imitated the Dan furnace of the Yellow Emperor with clay, made it into a pottery furnace, and baked dough to eat it to ascend to heaven. Although the sun and the moon have changed, the people have not become immortals, but after continuous improvement, they have finally created their own unique biscuit barrels and world-famous Jinyun biscuits.

The above legends linked Jinyun sesame seed cake with Xuanyuan Huangdi, the ancestor of mankind, which lengthened history and raised its value. As a legend, of course, there is nothing wrong. But according to my analysis, the real inventor of Jinyun sesame seed cake is the mountain people who burned bricks and charcoal in ancient Jinyun. Living by the mountain, people in Jinyun Mountain have a tradition of burning bricks and charcoal to make a living since ancient times. In 1960s and 1970s, many Jinyun people went out to Jiangxi and Fujian to make a living. It is said that they created it because after the bricks and charcoal were burned and cooled, the kiln workers had to go out of the kiln day and night to ensure the quality. Although cooled, the inner wall of the kiln is still very hot. In order not to miss work or meals, the kiln workers put flour on the kiln wall to satisfy their hunger before leaving the kiln. Later, they added cake stuffing to improve the taste, and so on, to make these cakes fragrant, and the kiln workers couldn't wait to eat them as soon as they came out of the kiln. Smart bricklayers try to burn charcoal stoves in the shape of kiln walls and bake sesame cakes. After repeated trial-production and improvement, we finally created a set of baked wheat cake equipment and baking skills.

The invention and origin of Jinyun sesame cake can be divided into different opinions. However, it should be noted that it was famous at least 600 years ago in the Yuan Dynasty. It is said that in December of the 18th year of Yuan Dynasty (1358), Hu Dahai, the rebel general of Zhu Yuanzhang, attacked Wuzhou (Jinhua) for a long time, but he could not attack it. When Zhu Yuanzhang arrived in the west of the city, the reinforcements were broken and the generals of the five States surrendered. Strangely, the city was destroyed. "On the first day, people in the city saw the colorful clouds in the west of the city like car covers, which was different" (Ming History). When the news reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, it was regarded as a good omen, and it was also known that Jinyun, which is not far from Wuzhou, was called "Five Clouds" in ancient times. There is a legend that the Yellow Emperor ascended to Dinghu, a fairy, and it is the land of Longxing Xiangrui. Therefore, it is considered that the appearance of "five-color clouds" is the guidance given to you by God, and you must go to worship in order to achieve great things. Suffering from the fact that Jinyun was still under the control of Yuan soldiers at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had to visit Jinyun anonymously to sacrifice to Xuanyuan Huangdi. I tasted Jinyun sesame seed cake here, which was very delicious. I have never forgotten it since then. When he became emperor, he immediately sent someone to Jinyun to choose a master and took him back to the palace secondary school to make sesame cakes. One morning, Zhu Yuanzhang was eating sesame cakes and took a bite. Palace eunuch report, Liu Bowen requested. Zhu Yuanzhang thought that Liu Ji often used mental arithmetic and used soldiers like gods. He might as well try him again this time. So I put the sesame seed cake on the plate and covered the bowl. After Liu sat down, Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "Sir, do you know what's under the bowl?" Liu Bowen calculated with his fingers and replied, "Half like the sun, half like the moon, once bitten by a golden dragon. According to my calculation, it is a sesame seed cake. " Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised. Later, he asked about the national luck, and later became a famous argot prophecy song-Pancake Song, which spread all over the world and is still regarded as a god. In fact, Liu Ji's strategizing and ingenious calculation are universally recognized. But this time, guessing baked wheat cake is more likely to be mysterious. Because Liu Ji studied in Shimendong, Qingtian, not far from Jinyun in his early years, he later had many friends of Jinyun (called "Zheng" by the people) and married a wife named Chen in the elegant residence of Jinyun, so he was of course familiar with Jinyun sesame cakes. Zhu Yuanzhang covered the freshly baked sesame seed cake, but the fragrance had drifted into Liu Ji's nose. Can you not guess? Of course, this story is enough to show that at least before the founding of the Ming Dynasty, sesame cakes were popular in Jinyun.

Today, Jinyun sesame seed cake, which was originally only rooted in the folk, is fortunate to be on the elegant literary hall. Kuocangshan Enqiu Ji written by wuyue, a writer of Jinyun nationality, is known as a living dictionary of modern folk customs in southwest Zhejiang. In his works of 2 million words, he has written more than 30 times about Jinyun sesame seed cake. The local customs of Jinyun biscuits, which are loved by various figures, are presented to the world in the form of literary works.

Coincidentally, in 2005, "Little Tiger" Lu Xiaowu wrote and sang "Jinyun Baked Cake Song" in Jinyun dialect, which was widely circulated on the Internet and in the streets of Jinyun, making the reputation of Jinyun Baked Cake more widely spread.

Fortunately, in 20 13, Jinyun officially established the "Jinyun Baked Cake Office" and "Jinyun Baked Cake Association", and in 20 14, it began to formulate the "Enterprise Standard for Jinyun Baked Cake" and "Jinyun Baked Cake"