Morning reading | Gossip print cake

　What is a cake? Why is it not called round cake according to the shape, and hard cake according to the texture? Nowadays, consumers may not really know much, and even less can tell the characteristics of printing cakes. However, the traditional printing cake is simple to make, a group of patterns of words, or both, carved on a piece of wood, the cake powder is filled and pressed tightly, scraped flat with a piece of bamboo, and then gently knocked out the molded cake blank, which is heated to become a different dim sum.

　　The inherent aroma, texture and taste of the printing cake in my mind have gradually drifted away, but the memory of the hunger and resistance of the printing cake is still clear. When I was a child, I always expected my mother to take me to Ningbo, in addition to feeling the courage of the big steamer in the roar of the river and the sea, I was more happy to listen to my mother's grandmother and the old lady who lived alone in Yin County talk about the various dim sums she made, and I was even more fond of printing cakes. Every time she returned to Shanghai, the old lady always asked Her mother to bring a large bag, she said, the printing cake die "eating field" can endure hunger and can be more "Min" (storage) for a few days. Gently bite into the cake, hold it in your mouth, and slowly flow into your throat, unlike rice cakes that are too troublesome to simmer and eat, chew and bite. Indeed, the cake is always the last snack to disappear from my family's "eating field". Now I have forgotten the way the old lady steamed the cake, which is very regrettable.

　　During the Spring Festival, I received a courier, opened it, and was overjoyed, and it turned out to be a printing cake. Unfortunately, this was not sent by relatives in Ningbo, but a gift from a Friend in Guangzhou who studied "Ta culture". Under the industrialization of the printing cake, although it can not eat back the taste of the past, but there is today's gossip printing cake text.

　　Ningbo is the hometown of Yin cakes, and it is the hometown of Yin County (now Yinzhou District), and I dare not say anything about this. But when the next door neighbor said that my face was with My Mother, "like a plate of printed cakes, live off the style." This authentic Ningbo dialect, I dare to assert and will never forget. As the saying goes, "The son is like a mother, and the gold hits the wall", so he loves the cake.

　　The cake is made by wood mold reproduction, which may be the originator of movable type, engraving Chinese printing, or a dim sum born of ancient printing. Today, it seems of little significance to explore who is the original innovation and who is following the innovation, but the innovative concept of the sons and daughters of China is interpreted and integrated in the people's life first, and the people's food is big, and no one doubts it. The ancestors will be the idea of survival, longevity, blessing and prosperity, through auspicious words, harmonious patterns, groups of displays, revelations, revelations, let us taste the originality, essence and authenticity of life at the same time. For example, a group of "cattle are soaring, cattle are tall and large, cattle and sheep are herding, and cattle are ploughing for thousands of miles", which corresponds to the scene of the Year of the Ox.

　　If the printing plate is the shape of the printing cake, then the real charm of the printing cake is hidden in its powder, powder and powder technology. On that day, i asked a master of a farm who had been making cake dumplings for more than 40 years: "To make square (soft) cakes, how many kinds of powders and combinations are needed?" With pulp powder, dry powder or wet and dry powder? Which is better, steaming or baking? "The master is an old-time master, but unfortunately he can't tell why." Although they belong to the same origin, the difference in ingredient composition, the depth of the material, and the technique of production make the food with different colors, aromas, tastes, and shapes. I think that the powder, powder and powder of the Yin cake are different, which are different from the coarse grain of Dingsheng cake and the sticky stickiness of square cake; it is not like rice cakes that need to be chewed carefully, nor is it difficult to digest the soup dumplings. Printing cake to rice flour first cooked, coarse powder-based, dry powder as the key, pressed powder as the weight, burning powder as the text, compared to other cakes, eating is not hard and non-sticky teeth, in the slow chewing overflow tooth fragrance, release cavity fluid, out of the cake stream, while hunger resistance, easy to carry, long shelf life.

　　Like many Jiangnan dim sum, the printing cake has its own characteristics and leads the way, which makes the world's people blessed and mouthy, and now as a souvenir, it should be praised! Of course, at this point, I still have unclear points, and I feel that the old lady used to bake the cake with a fire pot, but now many friends are determined to steam and cook. This difference, given my forgetting about the taste of my childhood, whether it affects the taste, aroma and taste of the cake... And who can tell? (Chen Yonghu)