Recently, Youpin received a box of small snacks, which is described as dim sum, which is actually a little bit of a "high climb" taste.
The name of this box of dim sum is Tutuo Ma Cake, and you may have some doubts just by listening to the name. However, for many Chongqing people, it is both familiar and unfamiliar.
Youpin had never eaten Tutuo Ma Cake before, but he had heard of its name more than once.
And the place where I heard about the Tutuo Ma Cake is its original birthplace - Beibei Water and Soil Town. Many years ago, the name of this place was Tutuo Town.
After spending 3 years in Shuitu Town, I often hear people around me mention tutuo mochi cake, but I have never eaten it, and I did not expect that after leaving shuitu for many years, I would "reunite" with it in this way.
Tutuo Ma Cake, according to relevant accounts, was born in 1925, and now has a history of 95 years, and is about to become a long-established brand spanning a hundred years.
In 2014, Tutuo Ma Cake was also selected as the intangible cultural heritage of Chongqing.
The following is from some folk legends, and the specific situation has not been examined accordingly.
In 1925, Chen Guoen, the first founder of Tutuo Ma Cake, opened a shop in Tutuo Old Street, named "Zhenjiang Zhaiguan", and began to sell hemp cakes.
Because of the unique taste of this hemp cake, it has attracted many people, everyone has spread word of mouth, the popularity is getting more and more popular, and more and more people know. Because there is no separate name, the place name is used directly, and it is called tutuo ma cake.
Later, the craftsmanship of making this hemp cake has also been inherited, and it has continued to this day, and the various experiences in the middle are difficult for us as outsiders to know.
Although this hemp cake looks simple, it is not so easy to make.
Because the first thing to do is to ensure the uniformity of the filling, and the hemp cake must be thin enough, and the sesame seeds wrapped on the surface are also very important, and the final baking and forming step must be controlled.
In Chongqing, hemp cake is often used as a substitute for mooncakes. Compared with those thick and gorgeous mooncakes, simpler hemp cakes will be more popular.
On days like the Mid-Autumn Festival, hemp cakes are also more popular than ordinary moon cakes.
The box of hemp cakes received by Youpin is indeed from the current authentic tuotuo hemp cake manufacturers, and from the appearance point of view, it is also thin enough.
After the actual tasting, it feels softer than ordinary hemp cake, it is very smooth to eat, and the difference is still obvious.
The hemp cakes I had eaten before, although they were also very thin, had not yet reached such a level. At the same time, the taste will be a little harder, and the filling can eat obvious rock sugar particles.
As far as the personal experience of the tour is concerned, both kinds of hemp cakes are actually good, because they have long been accustomed to the previous taste.
However, the tour product does not dare to guarantee, this is what the tutuo hemp cake should look like.
According to many older people, today's tuotuo ma cake is no longer the original taste. Although it is a process upgrade and improvement, it can no longer feel the same taste as it once did.
This is perhaps why most of the old brands are so hard to find.
Do you remember the taste of tutuo hemp cake? If you still have relevant memories, you are welcome to leave a message in the comments and discuss it with the tour products.