Occasionally, I go to visit relatives in other places, or get together with my classmates, find my stomach, ask questions about the east and the west, and even go to supermarkets and shops, but I don't know what local specialties I can come up with.
Needless to say, the town in my hometown feels poor and white; There seems to be no special food and dishes in the county; Even though I haven't eaten a few of the top ten classic Shandong dishes, I don't think they are special just by looking at the dishes.
After searching for three times in my confused mind, I finally remembered that it was rare to see it in recent years. In the past, every Mid-Autumn Festival was as famous as moon cakes.
Moon cakes should be familiar to people all over the country. Gao Feng, I remember when my classmates first saw my Gao Feng at school, they thought it was Big Shaqima.
In fact, Yishui Gao Feng is a 32-inch Shaqima with a layer of white sugar mixed with some red and green silk. It tastes soft and sweet, and the sugar is almost the same as Shaqima. Dry for a long time will be brittle, sticky should be poor quality.
When I was a child, my favorite was the red and green silk on the rich cake. Later, I learned that the kind of green and red silk that tastes similar to preserved fruit is just stained with sugar with orange peel, radish peel or shredded carrot and watermelon.
Because there is a thick layer of sugar on it, the rich cake is too sweet and greasy, and it has been rumored in the countryside for some time that its production process is unsanitary. In my impression, I seem to have been left out for a long time.
In recent years, various processes have been upgraded, and what is healthy and sucrose-free, what is sugar alcohol, and what is useful is sesame sugar, which has slightly increased on supermarket shelves.
Despite several improvements, most greasy cakes still taste bad. But I still think we should try to improve it, or add different flavors, or change the technological process to preserve this unique cake.
I didn't look up the information, and I don't know when this tradition began. The reunion festival on August 15 also happens to be the harvest season of various crops. Round moon cakes symbolize family reunion, while square moon cakes symbolize the abundant crops in the field.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, every family kills chickens and sheep. In the joy of harvest, life rises year by year, which should be the greatest implication given to Gao Feng moon cakes by the ancients.