Speaking of light cakes
I believe that every Fujian person will not be a stranger
When I think of elementary school, I only have 1 piece in my pocket
Will also contribute 5 cents to the light cake
As a delicacy from snacks to large
The people of Fuzhou say that the light cake is ours
The Fuqing people said that the light cake is ours
The Fuding people say that the light cake is ours
The Fu'an people said: The light cake is ours
The provincials said: Where is the light cake?
The traveler also suddenly realized this serious problem one day, so he sorted out the following collection, as a Fujianese, this should be one of the necessary cold knowledge you should show off to your friends in other provinces.
The origin of the light cake
The name of the light cake comes from the story of Qi Jiguang's two entry into Fujian to resist the Wu. According to historical records, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Coastal Areas of Fujian were seriously troubled, and Qi Jiguang was ordered to lead troops into Fujian to resist the Wu. Along the way, the people rushed to greet and treat, but the Qi family's military discipline was strict and did not accept gifts.
The people of Fuqing County specially made a kind of cake with a hole in the middle, strung it with brine grass, and hung it on the neck of the Qi family army general. Qi Jiguang deeply felt that the people loved the army and thought that the army really needed dry food that was easy to carry, so he ordered the soldiers to accept the people's wishes.
When the news reached Fuzhou, the local people also made a cake that was smaller than the Fuqing cake and was easier to carry, and put it on with a thin hemp rope and gave it to the Qi family army. Later, Qi Jiguang saw this kind of cake at any time during the battle, and did not miss the fighter, so he ordered the gang leader to make it according to the law. Since then, in order to commemorate Qi Jiguang's resistance to the Wo, people have called the small cake "light cake" and the big cake "Zhengdong cake".
The golden and fragrant light cake is loved by the people from ancient times to the present because of its low price and delicious taste and easy to carry. In different parts of Fujian, a variety of production and eating methods have been derived.
1. FuQingguang Cake
Except for Fuqing, those who have not photographed sesame seeds are called light cakes. But in Fuqing, there are sesame shoots, which are called light cakes!
Fuqingguang cake making method is special, with fine flour as the main raw material, with appropriate salt and alkali, add water to knead into a dough, knead into a cake, pat sesame seeds, punch holes in the middle, after waking up slightly, put into the special cake oven baked red in advance, and then use the newly picked pine needles to ignite and bake until crispy and then shoveled.
Fuqing light cake looks golden and pleasant, smells fragrant and tempting, and tastes with relish, which is slightly better than other light cakes in Fujian. But the strange thing is that how clever the master left Fuqing, he couldn't make a delicious Fuqing light cake! This is probably related to the water quality of Fuqing and the local pine needle baking in that year.
Seaweed light cake, now Fuqing is very popular
Fuqingguang cake with lean meat, dried tofu, pouring a little spicy similar to the Minnan Sha tea noodle soup juice, simply amazing! Sold on the street!
2. Fu'an light cake
Also known as Jiguang Cake. Among several Fujian light cakes, the number of Fu'an light cakes is the most faithful, although everyone's source is Qi Jiguang anti-Wu, but! Only Fu'an light cake, left the name "Jiguang cake"! Only Fu'an light cake, as far as possible to keep the same as the light cake that Qi Jiguang ate 400 years ago.
Fu'an light cake pays attention to the "copper face iron bottom cotton heart", copper face - light cake surface is burnt yellow, the color is like bronze; iron bottom - cake bottom is crisp and hard; cotton heart - the cake is soft and delicious, slightly salty. Overnight regular eating can cure stomach problems, you can soak the light cake into water to make a dish.
Fu'an's light cake also has a very special way to eat: stir-fry with crisp and refreshing bean sprouts and shredded meat to make the filling, cut the freshly baked light cake into two pieces and eat it, mixing the delicious flavor of the cake, bean sprouts and meat, which is both delicious and delicious!
3. Jian'ou light cake
Among the Fujian light cakes, the Jian'ou light cake has the largest variation! With flour, add an appropriate amount of nancao (alkali water) and salt water, after the noodles are penetrated, knead by hand, make a cake cut, and then use wood to grind into a cake blank, poke a small hole in the middle of the blank, if the cake surface has onions or meat, poke two holes. (Look!) They actually make a fuss on the pie noodles! Roar) then stick the cake blank to the hearth wall and bake it over a charcoal fire.
This is a common Street Jian'ou light cake
Jian'ou light cake eating methods are also very diverse! There are light cakes cut in half with a sharp knife, sandwiched in the middle of a few slices of white meat, green onions or egg in the skin, or stir-fried pickles, which has a unique flavor.
Sautéed light cake with large intestine
Some people cut the light into small triangles, fried in oil and stir-fried with pork intestines or duck stew, which is a delicious dish with a unique local flavor. As the local saying goes, "Large intestines, ducks and pancakes are fried, and they are delicious."
4. Zhou Ningguang cake
After Zhou Ningguang cake is baked by charcoal, the surface of the cake seems to have a thin shell, yellow with purple, crispy crust, soft cake sac, slightly salty, crispy taste, very delicious. You can also listen to the sound of sesame oil when you eat it. Not only is it delicious to eat, but it makes people who watch from the sidelines salivate and have a different flavor.
The strangest thing is that the light cakes in other places can't adjust the taste of Zhou Ning's light cakes. Zhou Ning people said that it was because the water quality of Zhou Ning was different from other places, and it seemed a little reasonable to think about it. Eating the light cake alone is not enough, Zhou Ning people love to divide it into two pieces of sandwiches along the edge of the light cake and stack it. The buns are made with rice milk, shredded radish, green onions, etc.
As you can see in the market, the chef who sells stacked bags takes a small amount of rice milk and places it in a light round scoop, thinly covers its bottom, adds an appropriate amount of radish shreds and green onions as filling, and then covers the rice milk and puts it in boiling oil and frys it, its color is orange and crispy. In particular, the sea oyster buns that have just come out of the pot can still be eaten with sesame oil. Not only is it delicious to eat, but it makes people who watch from the sidelines salivate and have a different flavor.
5. Fuding light cake
Lixia in the eastern Fujian region of Fujian is mainly based on eating "light cakes" (flour baked with a little salt).
Banana City, Fuding and other places are also used to cut the light cake in half, and eat the fried bean sprouts, leeks, meat, rotten vegetables and so on.
Fuding light cake
6. Gutian light cake
Gutian light cake is round, the size of a small bowl mouth, leaving a fine hole in the middle, threaded into a string can be hung, also known as hanging cake. After fermentation, the cake is accompanied by salt, sesame seeds, green onions, etc., kneaded into a circle, baked by fire, and the taste is crisp and slightly salty, very delicious.
With the improvement of living standards, the variety of light cakes has become more diverse, and now there are also green onion light cakes, peanut light cakes and Jian'ou crisp light cakes on Gutian Street, which are also deeply loved by the public.
7. Fangcun light cake
On the provincial road to Jianyang, there is a small village, Fangcun, which has the purest craftsmanship of making light cakes, and it is necessary to buy a few bags every time you go back and forth. In one bite, the crispy crust crumbled between the lips and teeth, and the burnt meat foam roasted by the fire jumped on the tip of the tongue, ensuring that your happiness was bursting!
Its method seems simple, just put salt and baking soda in the good noodles, make a garden-shaped cake blank with a thickness of about one centimeter, and poke a small hole in the middle of the billet, generally poking a hole in each light cake, like a melon seed mold. The light cake with green onions and meat on the cake surface pokes two holes each, and then sticks the cake blank around the upper wall of the stove, put some sulfur in the charcoal fire, and you can wait for the fresh and delicious light cake to come out.
But although we all know how to make light cakes, there are not many masters who really do a good job, the heat, the time, the materials, the thickness... All determine the quality of the light cake, Fangcun people are industrious and simple, steadfast preservation and follow the most authentic light cake craftsmanship, famous far and wide. Every time I go back to my hometown, my good friends always have to tell me to bring them a few packs of authentic "Fangcun Light Cake".
8. Build sunshine cakes
Jianyang's light cake in addition to the meat on the filling, there are pickles, other places may be called bad dishes. It has the characteristics of beauty, flavor, saltiness and crispness, and the cake is relatively large, generally more than 15 centimeters, generally on a selling basis. The most famous one is the Ximen Light Cake.
After many Jianyang people settle in Xiamen, every time they return to their hometown to visit their relatives, they always carry some light cakes from their hometown to feast on or distribute them to their relatives and friends in Xiamen to taste.
9. Wuyi Mountain Light Cake
Wuyishan big light cake, first ferment the flour, and after the noodles are broken into several small dough, the meat and shallot filling into it, and then kneaded into a cake embryo, poke a few small holes in the cake surface, after the water, the cake is pasted around the baking stove wall, 5 minutes later, the light cake is made. You can apply a layer of oil to the pie surface.
The light cake of Wuyi Mountain is almost the same as that of Jianyang. It is also divided into meat filling and pickles, which are relatively large. One of the most famous is the Datong Street Light Cake.
10. Hongshan Bridge Light Cake
People remember the Hongshan Bridge Light Cake Shop, until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were only two - Xinyixing, which opened in the seventh year of Qing Guangxu (1881) and Yuanli, which opened later. The Xinyixing Cake Shop was opened by Fang Renhua (grandfather of Fang Guanying and Fang Binggui, a famous folk culture person in Rongtai) downstairs in Xixiang (now Jianxin Town) in Fuzhou. Fang Renhua is proficient in the ancestral light cake (including bags, cut noodles) skills.
When making light cakes, they are fried in a pan at the beginning, and then they are changed to stickers, and the light cakes are delicious. Hongshan Bridge is the main road of water and land transportation in Fuzhou, there are many people, the price of light cake is cheap and hunger-resistant, so there are many buyers, the daily supply is in short supply, with the production and sale, there is still residual heat in the hand, and it is more popular with buyers. Because of this, "Hongshan Bridge Light Cake" is famous.
11. Yongtai shallot cake
This guy is actually a derivative of light cake. Its surface is covered with dense layers of white sesame seeds, and its stomach is filled with chives and a little baked fat. Freshly baked shallot cake, after a moment it is crispy, take a small bite, green onion, meat, sesame lips and teeth left fragrant, let people taste endlessly!
At a cursory glance, it is really the same as the Light Cake with onions and meat on the surface of the Jian'ou Cake! But one is face kung fu, and the other is lizi kung fu!
It is one of the traditional Han Chinese names in Yongtai, Fujian, but it has never been advertised as an official Fujian specialty, probably because it comes from a black and dirty-looking earthen brick kiln... But so what, delicious to burst, has long been in Fuzhou blossoming everywhere ~ ~
Whether all kinds of light cakes in Fujian have been tasted, it is convenient to go to the appointment!!!
Source: NCIC Traveler