Title: One of the most typical food in Tianjin--Erduowen fried rice cake
There are three typical delicious foods in Tianjin, namely, Goubuli stuffed bun, 18th street manual twist and Erduowen fried rice cake. The following I will mainly introduce the Erduowen fried rice cake.
Erduowen fried rice cake has a long history. In the Qing Dynasty Guangxu years(1900), “Fried cake Liu”Liu Wanchun to sell fried cakes to make a living, due to Seiko fine do, and gradually formed a unique style. Naturally, his business is more and more booming. Moreover, neighbors always buy his fried cake to celebrate the birthday or hold a wedding banquet, because of the homophonic word of the “cake”, which is promoting to higher positions. As a result of the location of the shop close to the narrow alley, the public diners called the Erduowen fried rice cake.
However, the process of making Erduowen fried rice cake is not simple. You need to go through a series of complex production steps if you want to eat such a tasty food.
First of all, you need to prepare raw materials, glutinous rice flour, yeast, bean-paste filling, water, edible oil and sesame oil. Secondly, you need to weigh 200 grams of glutinous rice flour and add 2 tsp yeast into the flour. Besides, you can knead the glutinous rice dough into soft dough after a small amount of water is added to the flour for several times. And then, you need to cover the dough with plastic wrap so that the dough to ferment for about half an hour at room temperature. Thirdly, you can clutch the fermented dough into the size same small dough. Afterwards, you need press the dough into a round cake so that the bean-paste filling is placed in the center of the round cake. In addition, to bring the surrounding cakes into a ball-like package and press gently into a fried cake-like. The following are important steps in particular. Fill hot wok with enough edible oil until temperature into around 130℃, after that, fry the cake into the oil with soft fire. You can take it out until two sides forming a layer of hard shell. After drain off oil, you need to put worked fried cake into another hot pot filled with sesame oil, moreover, turn cake several times quickly. Finally, you can take it out gently if both sides become golden. Finished product as golden ball crown, scorched outside but tender inside, puff pastry crisp but not hard, filling fresh and dry, sweet and refreshing. At last, I advice that if you want to try it, you’d better buy authentic Erduowen fried rice cake from Nanshi Cuisine Street in Tianjin.