春节里的甜蜜担当

2024-03-03 11:50肖寒
走向世界 2024年6期
关键词:桃酥姜糖青州

肖寒

吃,是中国人春节里的大事,从除夕到元宵节每天都可以吃出不同的花样。酸甜辣咸,总有一样美食,是属于春节的独特记忆。中式糕点或许是春节期间“出场率”最高的美食了,无论去谁家拜年,总能看到桌上摆着一个用来招待客人的点心盘,里面装的是蜜三刀、姜糖、蜜麻球、桃酥、江米条……对于山东人来说,这些传统糕点,就是一层层剥开的甜蜜年味儿。

蜜三刀,一个听上去就会让人流口水的美食。在山东传统糕点界,蜜三刀永远占有一席之地,在济南、青州、淄博的坊间均有历史流传与备受欢迎的老字号品牌。其中最有名的当属青州。“清真糕点,色香传奇。缺了隆盛,不成全席。”在青州,提起隆盛糕点,可谓无人不知、无人不晓。隆盛糕点之于青州,不亚于稻香村之于北京、杏花楼之于上海,春节期间更是得早起排队才能买得到。隆盛糕点的蜜三刀外表酥脆、内里松软,一咬浓浓的蜜汁溢满口腔,甜而不腻,越嚼越香糯,是不少人的心头好。

始创于明朝末年的菏泽单县蜜三刀,虽然没有青州的出名,但因其色、香、味、型俱佳的特点,深受苏、豫、皖等地的群众喜爱。还有淄博景德东的蜜三刀,也是让无数人难以忘怀的春节味道,即使现在,景德东蜜三刀依旧畅销。

提到景德东,那可是淄博人的“家的味道”,其创新的芝麻片、百子糕、芙蓉果等糕點也早已名扬山东。孕育出景德东的街道位于博山,名为西冶街,早在宋代,这里就已经颇负盛名,清康熙三年《颜山杂记》中记载:“城西之民多冶琉璃,故名西冶。”一直到了1937年,“景德东”终于创办。在1960年着手起稿的《博山区志》中曾记载:该店(景德东)所产糕点不仅花色新颖,而且质量颇佳,深受当地人喜爱。

虽说一城一味,但春节吃桃酥则构成了山东大多数城市共同的记忆。一说到桃酥,很多人就会有回到上世纪八十年代的感觉。那个物资匮乏的时代,逢年过节、走亲访友,桃酥都是上好的礼品,特别是一些老年人,对之情有独钟。

小时候总不明白,桃酥里面明明没有“桃”,为什么还要叫桃酥?其实,桃酥原名核桃酥,因其表面皱裂酷似核桃且又添加有核桃果仁,故得此名。桃酥吃起来香甜可口、酥而不硬、干而不焦,嚼着不费劲,纷纷的渣落进嘴里,接下来就是摁不住的香,在口腔里到处撞,收都收不住。相传,这种食物源于宫廷,不知后来怎么就流传到了民间,很受百姓欢迎。在山东的诸多老字号传统糕点店里,桃酥是不可或缺的存在。

一口甜蜜味道,一缕春节烟火气。源于祭灶的陈楼糖瓜吃在嘴里,既粘又甜,香气四溢,让新的一年从甜蜜中开始;始于清末的高家芝麻糖球酸甜可口、嘎嘣脆,尤其是“雪里红”糖丝如雪,白里透红,令人垂涎三尺;至今已有200多年历史的即墨麻片,外形片薄透亮,裹着满满的白芝麻粒,既干脆又酥香;自清康熙年间孟氏祖辈就开始熬制的姜糖,因其甜而不腻、辣而不辛的独特口感,以及驱寒祛湿、助益消化的功效,成为春节零食的独特存在……新年至,齐鲁大地甜香四溢,最抚人心。

如果说过年是一种仪式,那么甜蜜美食就是唤醒年味的重要载体。生活中的幸福与温馨往往就存在于这些流淌在舌尖上的地道老滋味中,让人回味无穷。

编辑/魏伟

Eating is a top priority for the Chinese people during the Spring F e s t i v a l . F r o m t h e C h i n e s e N e w Year’s Eve to the Lantern Festival, we can enjoy various delicacies e v e r y d a y . S w e e t , s o u r , h o t o r salty, there is always a delicacy t h a t i s a u n i q u e m e m o r y o f t h e Spring Festival. Chinese pastries a r e p r o b a b l y t h e m o s t c o m m o n delicacies during the Spring Festival. Wherever you pay a New Year call, you can always see a pastry plate on a table for entertaining g u e s t s . T h e p l a t e i s f i l l e d w i t h Misandao, ginger candies, sweetened sesame balls, walnut cookies, and polished glutinous rice strips…For the natives of Shandong, these traditional pastries are the sweet taste of New Year.

The sweet taste shows the hustle and bustle of the Spring Festival. Chenlou sugar melon, derived f r o m K i t c h e n G o d w o r s h i p p i n g , tastes sticky and sweet, and has an exquisite fragrance, which makes the New Year start with sweetness. Gao’s sesame candy balls (candied haws) originating in late Qing taste crunchy, sweet and slightly sour, and “Xuelihong” with snow-white s u g a r f i l a m e n t s i s p a r t i c u l a r l y mouth-watering. Jimo Mapian (sesame pastry) with a history of over 200 years is fairly thin, wrapped in white sesame, and tastes crispy. Ginger candy made by the Meng family since the Kangxi Period of Qing has become a unique snack during the Spring Festival because o f i t s a g r e e a b l e s w e e t n e s s a n d pungency, as well as its effects of dispelling cold and dampness and facilitating digestion … With the approaching of the New Year, the land of Shandong is suffused with a s w e e t f r a g r a n c e , w h i c h i s t h e most soothing thing.

If the Spring Festival celebration is a ceremony, sweet food is an important carrier for arousing t h e N e w Y e a r a t m o s p h e r e . T h e happiness and warmth in life often exists in these authentic traditional delicacies, which can leave an endless aftertaste.

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