Four Diamonds' little brother: Tiger paw

Four Diamonds' little brother: Tiger paw
Speaking of Shanghai's snack, people will not forget the most famous breakfast is the "Four Diamonds": Chinese pie, deep-fried dough sticks, soy milk and glutinous rice roll. However, "Four Diamonds" has a little brother, that is, the tiger paw .
The memory of tiger paw for younger people is "zero", the elder have full of thoughts on it. Indeed, tiger paw has disappeared in Shanghai for a long time. To make the tiger paw is not a very simple thing, first divide the dough into a round small group, and then use the knife to cut three times to make a gap, these rips fermented out of show the appearance like the tiger paw. Sprinkle the salt water evenly over the dough, so that the dough will stick firmly on the furnace wall, and the bottom will be slightly salty and the will be more fragrant. And finally sprinkle a sugar into the muck stuffy, after half an hour, a hearty tiger paw baked.
Shanghai writer Mr. Shen Jialu described the tiger paw in his book ‘Shanghai Old Taste’: "The chef divide the dough into three equal portions and hexagonal-shaped faces like a tiger's paw then broke away a little. Brush on the sugar water, baked in a small cylinder baked crispy, authentic tiger paw is crispy outside and has very incense inside, sweetness but not heavy, be regarded as a feature in Shikumen."