Sun cookies

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Variant with brown malt sugar. The original from the Tai-Yang-Tang bakery has white malt sugar
Right in the picture: Lots of sun cakes

Sun biscuits , with sun cake translated ( Chinese  太陽餅 , Pinyin Taiyang Bing ) are round puff pastry with sweet filling of malt sugar and a specialty from Taichung ( central Taiwan ). Sun cookies are usually eaten with strong tea. Your crust is crispy and crumbly.

origin

Sun cookies were originally a slightly larger type of pastry in the region. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Lin family sold malt cake in what was then the village called "Seko" (神 岡), which is now the Shengang District of Taichung, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945 . Initially, the batter for the biscuits was made with lard . It was later replaced with vegetable oil . Their malt cake was called the "Kuen-style malt cake"

The baker Wei Qing-hai ( Chinese  魏清海 , Pinyin wèi qīng hǎi ) based himself on this malt sugar biscuit. Lin Shao-Song and his wife were very impressed by the new malt cake from Wei Qing-Hai and hired him as a master baker for their "Tai-Yang-Tang bakery" ( Chinese  太陽 堂 , Pinyin tài yáng táng ). Wei Qing-hai renamed it in 1965 to the current name "sun biscuit", which comes from the founder of the bakery, Shao-Song Lin ( Chinese  林紹崧 , Pinyin lín shào sōng ). It was through this bakery that this name became known.

According to another story, the name sun biscuit is said to have come from the fact that the round biscuit looked similar to the Japanese flag . And Japan (日本) is also called the “land of the rising sun” (日 = “day” or “sun”) and (本 = “origin”, “root” or “beginning”). The biscuits were marked with this symbol of the bakery in the middle.

Sun cookies were just a specialty in Taichung at first. With the construction of the railroad, they were transported further and known through word of mouth throughout the nation. There was a well-known bakery near the train station.

Tai Yang Tang Bakery

In 1906, Lin Shao-Song and his wife Lin-He Xiu-Mei ( Chinese  林何秀 眉 , Pinyin lín hé xiù méi ) founded the Tai-Yang-Tang bakery and in 1944 they sold Lin Yi-Bo ( Chinese  林義博 , Pinyin lín yì bó ).

In 1953, Lin Shao-Song founded the original Tai Yang Tang Bakery at 23 Zi You Street in Taichung. In the bakery there was a famous painting of sunflowers by the painter Yan Shui-Long, who also recommended the cookies. This is why his sunflowers now adorn the biscuit packaging. May 12, 2012 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the bakery's opening. On August 4, 2012, Lin Yi-Bo agreed that the former MP Zhuang Nai-Hui ( Chinese  莊乃慧 , Pinyin zhuāng nǎi huì ) received the trademark right, which reopened the bakery next to the "National Taichung University of Science and Technology" . Until then, the name “Sonnenkeks” had never been entered in the commercial register, which is why every bakery was allowed to use it. Ten days later, Lin Yi-Bo died of lung cancer in the University of Chinese Medicine Hospital .

On September 16, 2012, there was a dispute between the shareholders of the bakery, which was then closed again. Finally the bakery moved to Zi-You-Straße 51 and was renamed to Chinese  新 太陽 堂 , Pinyin xīn tài yáng táng (“New Tai-Yang-Tang Bakery”).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Taiwanese (ROC) Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Taiyang Bing (太陽 餅 sun cake ) , taiwanfoodculture.net, accessed December 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d http://web.ntnu.edu.tw/~696900387/601.html National Taiwan Normal University , accessed January 1, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Shao Yu-Ming: [1] , TTNews, Taichung City, Taiwan February 26, 2009
  4. ↑ Lin Family - This name came from the fact that in the generation of the Lin family who baked the malt cake, everyone had the word “Kuen” in their first name. Sina (China).
  5. ↑ Lin Family The name "Kuen style" is related to the fact that in the generation of the Lin family who baked malt cakes, everyone had the word "Kuen" in their name. That is why their malt cake was called "Kuen-style malt cake"
  6. ↑ a b 王信允: 如歌 的 行板 在 地 特色 糕餅 巡禮 太陽 餅 、 鳳梨 酥 , Taichung City State Cultural Office, accessed January 2015