The legendary food of simplicity and unpretentiousness, the art of labor that has been passed down for a hundred years, is the collision of fire and noodles, and it is also the combination of wisdom and food. The light cake is fragrant and delicious, and "The Blessing of the Tip of the Tongue" takes you to read the human story in the light cake.
▶ Elderly Fuzhou people will know that the best light cake comes from Hongshan Bridge. In the old days, Hongshan Bridge as Fuzhou's water and land transportation artery, there are many merchants, cheap and hunger-resistant light cake has become their preferred dry food, daily supply is in short supply, and the production is becoming more and more refined, Hongshan Bridge light cake has since become famous.
Zhao Ruxiang is the fourth generation of Fuzhou Hongshan Bridge Light Cake.
The people of Fuzhou must not forget to prepare a string of light cakes during the Qingming Festival and when worshipping their ancestors, and while remembering the ancestors, they also do not forget Qi Jiguang's kindness to calm the rebellion for the Min people.
▶ As the number of craftsmen who make traditional Fuzhou light cakes gradually decreased, Fuzhou light cakes began to become rare. Nowadays, most of the light cakes that people see in the city are from Fuqing, which is about 65 kilometers away from Fuzhou, and there are also light cakes with Fuqing flavor.
From the appearance point of view, the biggest difference between Fuqing light cake and Fuzhou light cake is that the surface of Fuqing light cake is sprinkled with sesame seeds. On the one hand, sesame seeds can dry and moisten the intestines, on the other hand, the Fuqing people associate the sesame seeds on the cake surface with the meaning of prosperity of future generations.
Li Jinguan's light cake workshop has been busy since three o'clock in the morning. Ingredient ratios, sesame seeds, stickers, scones, everywhere is kung fu. For the precise ratio of the ingredients, the same dance-like cake pasting movement, such as the ritual-like baking process, each oven of light cake is the result of the cooperation of everyone.
▶ Yongtai shallot cake comes from Yongtai, a suburb of Fuzhou, before baking, people wrap meat fillings and green onions into the light cake to make shallot meat cakes, which has been said to have been passed down for a hundred years, and the plump meat filling has become the biggest feature of Yongtai light cakes.
Compared to other light cakes, Yongtai shallot cake is more like a snack. A small skin is thin, the meat is fresh and fragrant, and it is not greasy to eat, which is more suitable as a snack.
The biggest difference between Yongtai shallot cake and Fuzhou light cake is that the cake is wrapped with green onions and meat filling, and after baking, the rich aroma of green onion is mixed with the burnt aroma of the cake, which makes people salivate.
Wen Bugong, a native of Yongtai. An international seafarer who has been an international seafarer for 8 years. Today, there is a Yongtai onion cake shop at the foot of Drum Mountain. Together with his wife, Wen Aifeng, he runs a Yongtai onion cake shop. In the small green onion cake, it carries the stable happiness of the Wenbugong family.
▶ The legend of the Qi family army has long been sealed in the long river of history, but the simple and unpretentious "light cake" has passed through hundreds of years of wind, frost, rain and snow, and has blossomed everywhere in the land of Bamin with different attitudes. In this blessed city, it not only witnesses the changes of the times, but also carries the joys and sorrows of every light cake craftsman.
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