Camellia is a famous traditional snack in Jiangsu Province. Huai 'an Camellia is the most abundant and famous, with a long history and is well-known at home and abroad. In Huai 'an, teacups are a well-known food for women and children. Huai 'an Teahouse was founded in the late Qing Dynasty with a history of 100 years. It is also called "Yuejia Teahouse" because the person who made the teahouse the best at that time was named Yue, and because Yuejia was close to Huai 'an Drum Tower, it was also called "Drum Tower Teahouse". 1983 Huai 'an Tea Cake Shop won the Jiangsu Provincial Quality Food Award, 199 1 year won the Golden Top Award for Quality Food in the catering industry of the Ministry of Commerce, and 1997 was recognized as the first among Chinese famous snacks. This product is made of high-quality raw materials and refined by unique processing technology. It is light yellow in color, beautiful in shape, crisp and unique in flavor.
Tea skin is made of raw materials such as brown sugar, honey, pepper, onion skin, etc., boiled with water, proper amount of eggs, clear oil and flour, then kneaded repeatedly, kneaded into thick strips, kneaded into dough, kneaded or twisted into rings made of uniform and orderly connected strips, and fried in an oil pan until brown. Nowadays, many restaurants, breakfast shops or vegetable markets all make pastry crust. Tea can be eaten dry or soaked in water. When eating dry, it is often served as a side dish with wine. When soaking in water, it only needs to be brewed with boiling water for a few minutes, and it can be eaten after it is completely soaked. Tea is soft, fragrant and easy to digest, especially suitable for lying-in women and patients. [ 1]
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Huai 'an Teahouse, as a famous scenic spot in Huaiyang cuisine, must be said. There are 30 famous dishes of Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine in Manhan Banquet, the first banquet in China, and Huaiyang cuisine accounts for more than half of these 30 dishes. Besides, Huai 'an Tea House ranked fifth among the six before the banquet. Huai 'an Teahouse, as a tribute of the Qing Dynasty, is well-known for its reputation and status.
Huai 'an Teahouse won the Qing Xuantongyuan Year Award and Panama 1930 Medal. After liberation, he also participated in the North Jiangsu Native Products Exchange Conference, which was highly praised. Its finished products are famous for combs, fans, chrysanthemums and pagodas. Because tea is often eaten at non-dinner time, it is called Huai' an tea cake.
The production of Huai 'an teacups has a long history, which began with the praise cloud of Liu Yuxi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty: "Fine hands are rubbed into jade, and green oil is fried into light yellow." It doesn't matter if you sleep in the spring at night. Jade people hold gold people and crush them. "Compendium of Materia Medica records the effects of" facilitating defecation, moistening intestines, warming the middle warmer and benefiting qi ". He also said: use corydalis yanhusuo, Kudiezi, etc. As the end, and take half a dollar to one dollar at a time; Drinking Twist Head (teacup) soup before eating can cure urinary tract obstruction in children. According to the test, drinking tea before delivery has wonderful functions of relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, loosening bones and promoting growth, and drinking tea after delivery can strengthen the body and contribute to health. Because of its crisp texture, yellowish color, fragrant taste and beautiful shape, it is deeply favored. Because of the high oil content, tea cakes should not be stored for a long time, so it is best to eat them now.
Huai 'an tea cake became famous in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty. At that time, there was a Yue family in Huai 'an who specialized in making tea cakes, which was once listed as a tribute. Yuejia tea cake has beautiful and peculiar shape and reasonable ingredients. The prickly heat is as thin as thread, as yellow as gold, interlocking and connected with silk. When eaten in the mouth, it is fragrant, crisp, crisp, sweet and slightly salty. People are rushing to buy it, and it is a blessing to buy Yuejia tea. His tea is fragrant, crisp, crisp, all yellow in oil color, crisp and refreshing, with rich aroma, delicious taste, easy to ignite and melt in water. According to legend, Empress Dowager Cixi once suffered from breast tumor, and there is no cure. Huai' an doctor Han Dazhai opened a prescription, "Huai' an sesame oil tea cake four branches, litchi kernel two grinds, rice wine two liang, soaked and fried; Big quilt. "After Cixi took three stickers, the breast tumor disappeared, and Cixi was very happy. From then on, Huai 'an tea cake won a good reputation in Beijing and became a tribute of the Qing Dynasty. For many years, it has been a custom for women in the Jianghuai Valley to drink tea when they are pregnant and have children. According to the test, drinking tea before delivery has the wonderful effect of relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, relaxing muscles and bones and promoting fertility; Drinking tea after delivery can strengthen the body and is good for health. Therefore, between Jianghuai, whoever gives birth to a child, relatives and friends buy tea cakes for the mother. So far, there is a folk saying: "Don't eat jiaozi on the moon-this is a loss."
1965, a leading comrade of Huai' an county went to Beijing for a meeting and specially brought a basket of teacups to Premier Zhou Enlai. The prime minister accepted the kindness of the people in his hometown, but insisted that the comrades of the county party Committee take the gifts back. This incident shows the clean and honest style of the Prime Minister, and also adds a much-told story to Huai 'an Teahouse.