Saqi Ma is a food Manchu, one of the three hills outside Guan Qing Dynasty sacrificial offerings, means "dog breast dipped in sugar", after the Zhashu noodles, mixed with sugar into small pieces. Saqi Ma is one of the famous Beijing-style seasonal pastries Beijing, in Beijing in the past has also written "sand of its horses", "Sai Lima" and so on. Saqi Ma has a beige color, crisp taste soft, sweet and delicious, sweet-scented osmanthus honey rich flavor characteristics.

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"Yanjing age of mind," wrote: "Saqi Ma is the Manchuria cake to rock sugar, cream together flour whom, shape, such as glutinous rice, with no ash wood oven baked, and then into the box, sweet edible . "

Saqi Ma was important snacks. According to the "Guangxu Shuntian Chi" records "Sai Lima Lama as dessert, now City restaurants whom, with surface mixed with fruit, and sugar and lard into steam, taste very beautiful." Twenty-eight years of the dynasty, "Ma Temple Tang Bing trekking regulations monument "also wrote," the monk is the flag of the people must be used. Zhang wedding dinner tables, where the crown weddings offering and can not do without. " Beixinqiao year's Thailand and China Shop Saqi Ma vegetarian pastry cream flavor heaviest, it royal temple north Lama Temple, where monks Lama is the first patrons of fast Thailand, as the front of the Buddha, a great amount .

Masaaki Zhai made the most famous. Yongxing Zhai produced Saqi Ma also has a good reputation.

Saqi Ma with its soft and sweet, the entrance of the advantage and won the people's favorite. After Manchuria entry, Saqi Ma became popular in Beijing, today, as Saqi Ma delicious cake of Manchu, has spread to all of China from the north. However, among the high calorie (fat content about 54%, or about a 200 calories). Even Saqi Ma delicious, but still eat sparingly and for the sake of health.

In Hong Kong, people used to say Saqi Ma as "cowboys." As the horse races commonly known as "betting on horse races earners", which refers to the superstitious people of Hong Kong have after eating Saqi Ma, we can win the horse race gambling.

Saqi Ma historical allusions

The origin of the Manchu pastries "Ma-Sa," the name of some historical reasons. The word was first seen in thirty-six years of Qing Emperor Qianlong scholar Fu Heng eds of "imperial Qing Wen Jian updated," a book. Ma-Sa produced last two steps are: cut into the box, and then up code. "Cut" Manchu language Saatchi Africa, "code", Manchu language Mara wooden wall. "Ma-Sa" is an abbreviation of the two words. After the establishment of the Qing dynasty, the Manchu people entry, Manchu inhabited, customs, language, vocabulary entwined. Ma-Sa as an ethnic flavor of food, also accepted the Han people. Ma-Sa names of the two peoples has become a common name used.

Jurchen Manchu originated. Gold off after Mongolia, and other places to stay in Liaoyang Jurchen gradually finished, stay in this area of ​​Heilongjiang Yilan Jurchen then slowly migrating south, forming three Jurchen statehood, Hercynian Jurchen Jurchen and the East China Sea. Among them, nearly Jurchen statehood Han, the rapid socio-economic development. When Nurhaci to any statehood Samori Douzhihuishi, unified Jurchen ministries, the establishment of the gold. AD 1635, Taiji out of political needs, the abolition of the old Jurchen number, given the family name "Manchuria." Manchu officially became a new minority. About nine million people, China's population is more, one of the widely distributed nation. Mainly engaged in agriculture. Shamanism. Patriotic generals Wang Guangyu, Chen Han-zhang, Guan all from Manchu. Manchu cheongsam is characteristic ornaments. Snack "Ma-Sa" very popular with people of all ages.

Manchu Qing Dynasty in Guangzhou, a general serving, surname Sa, loved riding in the chase, and after each hunt will eat a little snack, it can not be repeated! Sa generals out once before the hunt, especially the chef told to "point to new stuff", if not make him satisfied, ready to go home to eat their own. Responsible for a dessert cook, a absence, the stained egg fried snacks broken. But why then they bombarded general dim sum, cooks a fire cursed one: "! Kill that horse-riding" was hurried to bring out the dessert.

To my surprise, Sa general quite satisfied after eating, he asked which dessert name. The cook then answer one: "kill the horse." Listening to become a general result Sa "Sa riding", hence the name.

Saqi Ma production methods

Saqi Ma old production methods are described in "Yanjing mind": "Saqi Ma is the Manchurian cake, icing sugar and cream together flour whom, shaped like rice with roast into the oven without Ashwood, then into the box, sweet and edible, "she pointed out the ancient times Saqi Ma from the sugar, butter, white flour made into; among the" cake "is the Peking dialect, means pastry or bread like food. Mr. Wang Shixiang said, "According to Yuan Bai Zunxiong (Professor Qi Gong) see religion:" Qing Wen Jian "has this name was interpreted as" dog breast sugar dip "Saqi Ma with eggs, flour and oil, after fine-cut fried again. caramel, honey and stir thoroughly Qin, twenty years 'sugar dip'.

Today, Saqi Ma production method has been modified: about flour made from the eggs was added and then the noodles, fried noodles with mixing and then the sugar, honey, syrup, cream, etc. is made, is made to be dry. With eggs as the main raw material, square dessert. Sometimes written as "sand of its horses", "Saqi Ma" or "Saqi Ma" ( "Ma" word also for "Mary") and so on.

There is a wild berry original Manchuria to the shape of a dog named breast, initially ready to use it as Saqi Ma fruit material. After entry, gradually being replaced raisins, sesame, hawthorn cake, plum, melon seeds, dates and so on, while the dog Little known breast. "(See" pastry shop and Saqi Ma, "a text)

Ingredients: flour, dry noodles, eggs, honey, peanut oil, sugar, gold cake, caramel, raisins, plum, Guaren, sesame, osmanthus

Production Method:

1. Whisk egg plus water, add flour, knead the dough. After the dough was allowed to stand for half an hour, cut into thin slices with a knife, and then cut into thin strips, superficial screened out.

2. peanut oil till 120 deg.] C, into the strand surface, remove Lek Absolute Zhazhi yellow-white.

3. The sugar and water into the pot boil, add caramel, honey and osmanthus brewed deg.] C to about 117, the finger can pull filaments.

4. The fried strand surface layer of mix syrup; frame covered with a layer sesame seeds, noodles poured paving wooden frame, sprinkle some fruit material, shaped with a knife and then let cool Serve.

The pot peanut singed to Bacheng heat the frying pan into the convolution under about 1 minute, until golden red when fish Serve.

Homemade:

Material: 200 g Bread baking powder surface about 1 tsp 3 eggs 20cc water　　

Material sugar: sugar 150 g maltose, 50 grams of water 15 grams of honey 40cc 　　

Other: raisins, etc.

practice:

1. Egg flour baking powder and then mixing with water to make a paste wake chopping board 10. Flour release dough with a rolling pin to roll to the center fold (4 folded off) knife cut into thin noodles will add the flour then spread into the pan fried noodles (the fire) will recommend a multi-fried will be more crispy fried well after picked up and drain the oil stand;

2. The material is placed in the pot with sugar until Huoao wire can be drawn up;

3. fried noodles into Aohao syrup was added while stirring After stirring uniformly into raisins oiled after pressing plate cuts the flattened completely cooled transfer to a plate by hand.