Shooting time: June 29, 2022 16:56
Shooting location: Beijing
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Shaobing
Shaobing is a popular baked pasta with many varieties, including flatbread, scone, Jinyun Shaobing , Wenxian Ancient Noodle House Traditional (Old Noodles) Sesame Cake, Huangshan Sesame Cake , Traditional Sesame Cake, Hugou Sesame Cake , Sesame Sesame Sesame Cake , Pastry Sesame Seed Cake , Shortened Sesame Seed Cake, Leaven Dough Pile, Slag Sesame Cake, Sugar There are more than 100 styles including sesame sauce biscuits, furnace dried biscuits, cylinder furnace biscuits, Luo Si Zhuan biscuits, crispy pork barbecue, assorted biscuits, furnace rice dumplings, Du Chengqi barbecue, beef tongue cake , etc.
my country’s “shaobing” has a very long history. Northern Wei Jia Sixie's "The Essential Art of Qi Min " Volume 9 "Bake Method" has records about sesame cakes. It says: "The method of making sesame cakes: one bucket of noodles, two pounds of mutton, one cup of green onion, soy sauce and Add salt and cook until cooked. Marrow cake method: Mix the marrow fat and honey into a dough that is 4 to 5 inches thick and 6 to 7 inches wide. Let it cook until cooked. Repeatedly. The cakes are plump and durable." The method of making sesame cakes is recorded in detail. There are similarities between sesame biscuits and Hu biscuits. First of all, both are foods passed down from the Western Regions Hui Lin in the Tang Dynasty. Volume 37 of "The Sound and Meaning of All Sutras" and Volume 12 of "Dharani Collection" record: "The barbarian eaters eat glutinous rice and sesame cakes." , Hu biscuits, Tanna, etc.” It is clearly stated that Shaobing and Hu biscuits are Hu foods. Secondly, the method of making biscuits is baking, and the method of making sesame biscuits is also baking. As stated in "Qi Min Yao Shu", the "method of making sesame biscuits" is "burning". "Zhi" means roasting. Huang Chaoying's "Xiansu Miscellaneous Notes" of the Song Dynasty also records that "those who eat it when it is burned call it Shaobing." According to historical research, sesame cakes were introduced to the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty. "Continued Hanshu" records say: "Lingdi is good at Hu cakes." Hu cakes are the earliest sesame cakes and became popular in the Tang Dynasty. <Zizhi Tongjian.Xuanzong> records: During the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Xuanzong and Concubine Yang Guifei fled to Jixian Palace in Xianyang. With nothing to eat, Yang Zhongguo, who was appointed prime minister, went to the market to buy Hu cakes and presented them. . At that time, Changan was famous for its flax cakes, and the first store called Fuxingfang. For this reason, the poet Bai Juyi wrote a poem saying: "Sesame cakes are like Kyoto, the noodles are crispy and oily and fragrant. I sent it to Ambassador Yang who was hungry and slandered, and it tastes like a supplement."
Fire and sesame cakes
Some people have always I can’t tell the difference between sesame biscuits and fire-roasted biscuits. Sometimes I buy them from vendors and don’t know what they are called. Sometimes they shout "shaobing" and sometimes "fire", which confuses all the vendors. In fact, it is quite easy to distinguish between Huoshao and Shaobing. First of all, the sesame cakes are baked, then they are seared, or they are seared first. Second, Shaobing has sesame , but Huoshao does not. Third, there are many ways to make fire, including sugar fire, meat fire, plain fire, donkey meat fire, etc. It can be matched with various fillings, and can even be filled with fried dough sticks and fried cakes. There are usually no fillings in sesame seed cakes. You can bake them and add some eggs or ham separately. Fourth, the shape of the fire can be ever-changing, it can be long, square, round, or even made into a five-square shape of tender beef. But sesame seed cakes are also round. Fifth, sesame cakes are usually made from leavened flour, while fire-roasted ones are mostly made from dead noodles. What is shown in the photo is a typical fire roasting, which can be used to hold meat to make Roujiamo . According to the legend, it is certain that Huoshao has a shorter history than Shaobing, which means that Shaobing came first and then Huoshao.
According to legend, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang hunted down Liu Xiu. One night, Liu Xiu was chased into the endless wilderness. The galloping horse suddenly stopped in front of a big tree. No matter how hard Liu Xiu beat him, he would not move away. Seeing the pursuers approaching, Liu Xiu was desperate and prepared to draw his sword and kill himself. Suddenly an old man appeared and pulled him off his horse, pushed him behind a big tree, and told him not to move. The pursuers roared past in the darkness, and Liu Xiu was temporarily safe.The big tree is an ancient locust tree that is thousands of years old. It has three large branches extending upwards. The trunk is so thick that five people can barely wrap it around each other if they hug each other. The crown is like an upside-down cauldron, with lush branches and leaves, blocking out the sky and the sun. You can't see the sun when you stand under the tree. There is a tree hole in the middle of the tree, which is large enough to accommodate three people. Liu Xiu followed the old man's advice and temporarily hid in a tree hole that night, and fell asleep soon after. When I woke up, I smelled the aroma of sesame cakes, and I suddenly felt unbearably hungry. I was just about to leave the cave to get something to eat, when I suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves approaching from far away, and I knew that my pursuers were coming to arrest me again. When the pursuers came to the big tree, they saw the old man making sesame seed cakes. They all grabbed them and ate them, leaving no one left. Then he threatened to report the fugitive Liu Xiu immediately if he saw him, otherwise he would be convicted as a major adulterer, and then walked away. The old man was secretly shocked, and then he realized that the person he rescued last night was actually Liu Xiu. After the pursuers left, Liu Xiu knew that his identity had been exposed. He left the tree hole and said to the old man: "I haven't eaten for a few days. Can you get something to eat, preferably the fragrant sesame cakes just now." The old man replied: That sesame cakes. It's made of leavened noodles. How can there be no leavened noodles nowadays? Liu Xiu was so hungry that his chest pressed against his back and he couldn't wait to eat it right away. He said, "You don't need to make the noodles. Just cook them." The old man immediately kneaded the noodles and started making food. Because dead noodles and noodles are not easy to mix (unleavened noodles are called dead noodles among the people in the north), he applied cooking oil on the noodles. Fearing that they would not taste good, he added some salt to the noodles and kneaded them lightly to make a pancake shape. The pancakes were pancaked in the pot. The fragrant smell of the pancakes made Liu Xiu, who was hungry, pick up one and eat it before it was fully cooked. As soon as he ate it, he found that it was indeed undercooked, but he was too embarrassed to put it back, so he picked off a Y-shaped tree branch and picked up the uncooked pancakes. The cake was placed on the fork and burned on the fire. After a while, the dead round cake became bulging and big. When it was eaten, it was charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It was much more delicious than the sesame cake. Liu Xiu was overjoyed and the more he ate, the more delicious it became. He picked up one and took a bite. He also felt that this new pasta was delicious in color, fragrance and flavor. He had an idea and asked Liu Xiu: "Please give this kind of cake a name!" Liu Xiu thought for a while and said: "If you make it in a pot, it's called sesame cake. If you make it with dead noodles and add oil and salt, it won't be cooked in the pot. If I bake it directly on the fire, then let's call it fire roasting."
