"Xiting shortbread has eighteen layers. The layers are clear and can make people shine. When you eat it, you will smell it sweet and crispy." As soon as I heard this song, I remembered the specialty of Nantong, Jiangsu Province. ——Xiting shortbread.

Long history

Speaking of shortbread, people will naturally think of the nationally famous Xiting shortbread. Xiting shortbread is a traditional specialty food produced in Xiting, a thousand-year-old ancient town in Nantong City. It was created in the late Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 100 years. For a long time, Xiting shortbread has been loved by people for its unique flavor.

As current events change, Fulong Mao Biscuit Shop has also experienced ups and downs. Business was very sluggish during the Anti-Japanese War, and during the three-year natural disaster in the 1960s, the company was forced to close down. After the reform and opening up, the production of this traditional food was resumed, and "Xiting Crispy Cake" was officially registered as a trademark. For more than twenty years. Xiting Biscuit Factory started from a handmade workshop with only three workers and three clay stoves, and has grown to a food factory with more than 100 workers and a batch of advanced equipment.

Touching legend

In the early years of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (around 1880), a Zhenjiang businessman named Leng Chunxi came to Xiting to settle down to make a living and opened a tea shop. Name it "Fuxing Store" and make shortbread. When it first opened, business was very quiet. In order to gain a foothold in the local area and build a brand, Leng Chunxi spent a lot of money to hire highly skilled tea chefs to research new shortbread recipes and put a lot of thought into the four characters of color, aroma, taste and shape. Be unique. There is an endless stream of admiring buyers, and business is booming day by day.

Exquisite craftsmanship

Xiting shortbread is made of refined white flour, high-quality sugar, pure white sesame, refined vegetable oil, etc. as the main raw materials. From dough kneading to shortbread coming out of the oven*** There are twenty-eight processes, all of which are basically performed manually by master workers. After the cake embryo is pasted on the wall of the yellow mud furnace, it is baked over low fire with high-quality smokeless coal for more than one and a half hours before being released. The shortbread made in this way has unique color, aroma, taste and shape.

Unique taste

Xiting shortbread is golden in color and fragrant. Each one is less than two centimeters thick and has as many as eighteen layers. Eat it dry, crispy, fragrant and sweet; eat it soaked in boiling water, it will be soft but not rotten, with clear layers and the soup will not be muddy. Xiting shortbread is sweet and delicious, invigorating the spleen and appetizing, and is loved by people. It has become a new food in the 21st century that combines traditional flavor with modern nutrition and health care.

Xiting shortbread is famous both at home and abroad and has been praised for hundreds of years. It is sweet, crispy and unique!