Cakes have been handed down from modern times, so what sweets did the ancients love to eat?

Everyone's eating habits and tastes are different, and there are many people who are very fond of sweets, and will put some particularly delicate small cakes and small pastries.

As an afternoon tea.

to eat. Now that our technology has improved, there are many kinds of desserts that can be made, such as mille-feuille cakes, dirty cakes, etc., which are very popular desserts on the Internet, and the sales are also very good. In ancient times, there was no such dessert as cake, and the sweets that the ancients liked to eat were some preserved fruit and candied fruit, and there was some maltose boiled to make all kinds of pastries.

The incoming of the cake

Nowadays, there are many types of cakes, ranging from small cakes that are used for afternoon tea to large cakes that are used at birthday parties. The taste of the cake is very good, and the appearance is also very beautiful, and the cake can be regarded as a representative food among sweets. Cake was introduced to China in modern times, and it appeared relatively late in our lives, and it should be regarded as a kind of food that came after us in the history of sweets.

Natural sweets

There must have been many people in the ancients who were very fond of sweets, and at that time the productivity was relatively backward, and they could not make such exquisite desserts as they do now. At that time, the ancients would extract some pure natural desserts from some honey and sugar cane, which were called caramel at that time.

In fact, it is the current maltose.

Maltose is also a relatively rare sweet now, its production method is very simple, and it was more popular in ancient times. <>

Delicate pastries

In many film and television dramas, we can see that the pastries eaten by the ancients are also very small and exquisite. With the development of productive forces, the ability of the ancients to create sweets has also been greatly improved, and some fruits can be made into candied fruits.

It is equivalent to the current snack, and the candied fruit developed to its peak in the Song Dynasty, and the variety is very rich. In addition, the ancients could also make some various kinds of small pastries, some fried and some steamed, which is the prototype of Chinese pastries today. The production of pastries reached its peak during the Tang Dynasty, because the folk customs of the Tang Dynasty were relatively open, so any culture of the Tang Dynasty had a certain inclusiveness.

The ancients loved to eat candied fruits, pastries, sweets made of honey and cane sugar, sweet water and other sweets.

The first is honey and starch syrup, such as sorghum syrup, the second is preserved fruit preserves, which are made from fruits and vegetables, and the third is all kinds of pastries, fancy snacks and so on.

Cake is a sweet that modern people like to eat, and it was brought in from abroad. Before there was no cake, the desserts that the ancients liked to eat were pastries, shortbreads, etc., such as peach blossom cakes.

Beijing-style specialty snacks are, and the most common traditional snacks are "eight large pieces" and "eight small pieces".

The name of eight different pastries.

The big eight pieces are: 1. Flip the hair cake, 2. Big roll cake, 3. Big oil cake, 4. Butterfly roll, 5. Crisp, 6. Fat cake, 7. Champion cake, 8. Seven star Dianzi.

The small eight pieces are one size smaller than the big eight pieces: 1. Fruit tart, 2. Small roll crisp, 3. Small peach crisp, 4. Small chicken fat cake, 5. Small screw crisp, 6. Salty dianzi, 7. Jujube flower, 8. Pit face. The latter four are the most popular with small children.

In particular, jujube flowers are twisted into petals with jujube mud, which is very beautiful.

In the old days, Beijingers had to bring gifts when visiting relatives and friends, and paid attention to giving "Beijing Eight Pieces", that is, "Big Eight Pieces" and "Small Eight Pieces". This was originally an indispensable gift and ornament for the wedding and funeral ceremonies of the royal family of Qinghu and daily life, and later the recipe was passed on to the people from the imperial dining room. Its main ingredients are white flour, sugar, lard, honey and various fruit seeds.

The so-called "eight pieces", that is, eight kinds of dim sum, generally have hemp cakes, jujube flowers, roll cakes, and some are engraved with different words such as blessing, lu, longevity, and happiness. There are round, peach-shaped, square, etc., which are housed in a rectangular cardboard box. The "small eight" is a double portion, and the sixteen pieces are packed in a cardboard box.

In the past, when my daughter went back to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings to her elders, she had to go to the pastry shop to buy a box of eight large pieces and carry them in her hand, which was generous and beautiful.

Pastry. As if from the beginning of people's impressions, pastries can be used as a snack and also have a certain nutritional value. Many people are curious about the development of pastry, when was pastry invented?

Sometimes there are interesting ideas that pastries are just invented. Today, on this issue, let's popularize the knowledge of pastry for everyone. <>

1. Raw materials for making pastriesIn fact, at the beginning, the raw material for making pastries was wheat, and people were at the beginning of China, and wheat in ancient times mainly came from the herdsmen in the west. With the development of a long time. It also spread to the Central Plains of China, where it became popular to grow wheat, and many ways to eat wheat were invented and studied.

Among them, the production of pastries was also made during this period. When pasta became popular, some people thought about whether it was possible to make pasta cakes, and the name confectionery was born. <>

Second, the development of food can actually know that the development of food is rich, in fact, for China, food is different from region to region. We can know that wheat is still the main food of many ethnic groups in Xinjiang, and we can first guess that the development of pastries first came from Xinjiang, and the spread of pastries began when the herdsmen from the west came to the Central Plains. Therefore, it can be guessed that the development of food has also affected the production and spread of pastries, resulting in pastries are still common in many lives, and many people like to eat them very much.

The development of food is inseparable from people's love for pastries, which has also led to pastries being passed down from ancient times to the present. <>

3. The size of pastries is actually different in different places, and it is also related to the eating habits of many places. For example, the northerners are more rugged, so the pastries are also more filling. Southerners, on the other hand, prefer delicate ones and have more introverted personalities, so pastries are also smaller and delicate.

So the size of the pastry also leads to the richness of the pastry circulation. In fact, no one can say from which period there was such a thing as pastry, but the above are some of the most pastry opinions.

Since the Shang Dynasty, there has been such a thing as pastries, and people at that time were already able to make pastries, but the pastries at that time were not as delicious as they are now.

There were already pastries in the Tang Dynasty, and there were already many very delicious pastries at that time, and they were very popular foods for people.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was already such a thing as pastry, and there was already a hibiscus cake in the Ming Dynasty, and it was particularly popular at that time, and the production process was particularly fine.

Personally, I feel that there was such a thing as pastry at the end of the Middle Ages, because the earliest western pastry in this period was cake, also called pastry.

It was during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Some of the pastries that appeared during this period were also very simple to make and tasted very good.

There has been such a thing as pastry since very early times, and the history of pastry can be traced back to the Qin Dynasty, but the name is different.