Beijing cuisine – Saqi Ma

Saqi Ma is an important representative of the Beijing-style pastries, it’s really a unique charm of pastries, the melted sweet taste often suddenly conquered the taste of diners.

Beijing cuisine - Saqi Ma

Because The “Saqi Ma” is a transliteration of the word, and thus on the food source, has also experienced some research. Mr. Deng Yunxiang, the addition of Yanjing country in mind, “Saqi Ma transliteration is not Mongolian, Manchu is, is written in different such as Lama snack, that is Mongolian; such as Manchuria cake cake, that is, Manchuria, then. “In fact,” Saqi Ma “is a term first appeared in the the Qing period scholar Fu Heng book” imperial updated Qing Wen Jian “,” Saqi Ma, flour sesame oil fried, syrup blending book will Saqi Ma interpreted as “a dog with milk sugar dipped, derives its name from Saqi Ma initial approach, which is northeast resembling a dog breast wild berries accessories. Sugar dipped fried dough sheet by honey, through Tangban. Saqi Ma actually the Manchuria cake is one of the three hills worship offerings of the Qing Dynasty outside the customs. The full entry Saqi Ma accessories play changes become rich selection of raisins, the hawthorn cake bars (d), plums, melon seeds, “dog milk” and the name gradually became forgotten world .
Saqi Ma generally listed in the autumn and winter, cut child and neatly stacked Saqi Ma production, storage. The traditional approach is more conventional: the first eggs, milk, sugar and flour into a paste, flour made of thin strips (or hand-made bar) with a colander, blasted into the hollow bar into the pan, then add the honey in the mold pressing, on the pot a little steamed, and then on top sprinkled with sesame seeds, melon seeds, green their names or D hawthorn cake box to cut the height of about one inch, about two inches. With the progress of the times, Saqi Ma spread throughout the north and south, around retain their basic material based on the materials of small change, but the most orthodox system of law is to stick at the bottom of Saqi Ma full cooked sesame seeds, ensure that the deposited layers do not adhesion. Was this coveted Saqi Ma intertwined with egg aroma, complex flavor of honey, sweet cakes entrance Xirun, unique style.

In recent years, the traditional beauty point Saqi Ma has to go abroad to become a popular fragrance to Southeast Asia and other places of leisure snack.