Baked Square Crisp

Baked Square Crisp

　　Baked Square Crisp, a type of flour-based food, is a famous snack from Nanchong City in Sichuan Province. Characteristics: pale yellow color, flaky, sweet, and fragrant. Cooking method: baking. This product, when refined, can be served as a banquet dessert; when rolled into layers, it can be made into large crisp pastries. Traditional baking uses an inclined oven.

　　Special flour is used to make a scalded dough, which is slightly cooled before adding an appropriate amount of leavened dough, along with a suitable amount of sodium carbonate and lard. Special flour mixed with lard is used to make the crisp layer dough. The scalded dough and the crisp layer dough are combined, wrapped, and laminated to form a pastry skin. A sweet sesame filling is added, then rolled into square-shaped dough pieces, coated with sesame seeds, baked in the oven until cooked, and served on a plate.

　　Key points for preparation: the dough should be neither too soft nor too hard; fermentation is best when the dough shows slight bubbling; sesame seeds should be hulled.