Cake is one of the pasta dishes that we Chinese often eat. Our modern understanding of "cake" is that it is a flat and round noodle food, such as flatbread, baked cake, pancake, moon cake, etc. The five famous flavors of the cake are Beijing-style mooncakes, Jin-style mooncakes, Suzhou-style mooncakes, Cantonese mooncakes and Chaoshan mooncakes.
Chaoshan moon cakes, also known as Chaoshan moon cakes, are famous Chaoshan cakes and foods that are famous at home and abroad, also known as cakes. Hipsters have been making mooncakes for more than 300 years.
Cake is a cake made of lard mixed with flour to make a sweet filling and baked. Chao'an Yixi cake, Chenghai Sunan cake, Chaoyang Guiyu cake are the three major cakes of Chaoshan in the old times.
Fermented bean curd cake is one of the famous delicacies of Chaoshan. Its shape is small, it has a unique smell of southern milk, garlic and alcohol, rich in fragrance, sweet but not greasy, and rich in sugar, vitamins, protein and fat, rich in nutrients.
Also known as "tofu milk", "southern milk" or "cat milk", the name varies from place to place, and it is a secondary processed soybean food.
For the application of fermented bean curd, the most whimsical and unexpected is Chaoshan's fermented bean curd cake. The combination of fermented bean curd and Chaoshan's traditional cake making process can be described as a stroke of genius.
The origin of the bean curd cake has a story among Chaoshan folks.
In the past, there was a pastry shop in Chaozhou, specializing in Cantonese five-kernel dragon and phoenix cakes. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the rich man and his wife discussed in the room to change the master. It so happened that the master walked under the rich man's window, overheard their conversation, and was angry and anxious. He walked into the workshop, there was nowhere to vent his anger, he looked up and saw an urn of red bean curd on the ground, and said to himself: "Okay, you do the first year of junior high school, I will do the fifteenth", picked up the bean curd urn, poured all the red bean curd into the vat containing mung bean paste, this was still not relieved, and poured the half of the dung and garlic on the table, a bottle of old wine, and poured them all in, and used a rolling pin to stir them into a mess, becoming a hodgepodge, and then left.
After the New Year, the new master was laid out, and he still started to make five-kernel dragon and phoenix cakes. After the raw cake was stamped and put in the oven, a strange fragrance wafted out. The cake had just been put on the market, and the smell made customers drool, and it was quickly sold out. When the rich man saw this, he smiled, glad that his decision was right, and that his eyesight was good. What about the new master? Although I don't understand it in my heart, it is also beautiful. As soon as the cakes were sold, the rich man urged the new master to start immediately and make a large batch of them on the market. The new master also worked hard, and made another batch of respectful methods. Who would have expected that the dragon and phoenix cakes made this time would not smell the strange fragrance of the previous batch, not to mention that there were far fewer customers, and they still couldn't be sold out after a long time. The rich man and the new master didn't know what the reason was, and the new master said: "The batch of cake fillings in the spring was made by the original master." He must have deliberately shown his hand before leaving, so that we could invite him back again. The rich man felt justified, and hurried to the old master, and said all the good things, and insisted on inviting him back. The old master came back to the shop, but he was also energetic, but the cakes he made were still not so fragrant, and the business was not good.
One day, when the master was eating, he ate a small piece of bean curd, his eyes lit up, he touched his heart, dropped the meal and ran to the shop. As soon as he entered the shop, he hurriedly asked the rich man to hurry up and buy red bean curd, garlic and old wine. He immediately started to adjust the filling according to the method of that gamble, and the cake he made had that strange fragrance, and as soon as the market was listed, customers rushed to buy it, and the business of the pastry shop flourished.
Wife cake is a famous pastry in the Chao area of Guangdong, the skin is thin and the filling is thick, the filling is moist and soft, the taste is sweet but not greasy, the layers of oil crisp are as thin as cotton paper, crispy and loose, the crumbs fall all over the ground when you bite down, and every bite can taste the sweet taste like honey!
The origin of the wife's cake is another story about the cake that is circulated among the Chaoshan folk.
According to legend, a Chaozhou dim sum chef from Lianxiang Teahouse in Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty returned to his hometown to visit relatives and brought many famous dim sum to comfort his wife. After eating it, my wife was very picky: "Your Lianxiang Tea House is a well-known old shop in Guangzhou, and the dim sum you make is nothing more than that, and it is not as delicious as my fried winter melon corners!"
The next day, his wife boiled a pot of winter melon puree, added white sugar flour, boiled until it was semi-dry and not wet, took it out to make stuffing, made winter melon corners, and then fried it in an oil pot. When the husband saw that the fried winter melon horns were butterily shiny, and the skin was crispy and the filling was smooth in his mouth, sweet and delicious, he couldn't help but say yes. After the family visit, the dim sum chef asked his wife to make a large bag of winter melon wedges and asked him to take them back to Guangzhou for the masters of Lianxianglou to taste. The masters of Lianxiang Tea House are all from making dim sum, what kind of exquisite dim sum has never been seen, and I took the winter melon horn of the Chaozhou master, and I didn't take it seriously at first, but I tasted it out of politeness. After they ate it, they all said it was delicious. The boss also rushed over to taste it when he heard the sound, and thought it was a famous spot somewhere, and learned that it was made by the wife of the dim sum chef, so he called it "Chaozhou wife cake".
On the eve of liberation, Huang Xiongjin, a native of Puning, founded the Yuancheng food store in Shanghai, and the Yuancheng Chaozhou wife cake made by him is famous in Shanghai and is a gift to celebrities. In the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1949, the Shanghai Chaozhou Merchant Gang presented his wife cake to the Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang. Wife cakes are widely spread, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, wherever there are hipsters, there are wife cakes.
Raoping Huanggang Bao Doubi was created in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, has a history of more than 300 years, its unique flavor, deeply loved by the people. The third story about the cake circulated among the Chaoshan folk is the story of the treasure cake.
In the old days, there was a family in Huanggang, and her husband lost money gambling and was destitute, and he became depressed and depressed, either drinking alcohol or sleeping a lot. The wife was a wise man, and in order to inspire her husband to cheer up, she made several pieces of bread like a treasure bucket with flour, sugar, mung beans, and other raw materials, and gave them to her husband to eat, and said, "This is a treasure bucket made of flour, which can be seen and eaten, how can you taste it?" After the husband ate it, he praised it repeatedly: "It's delicious, it's delicious." The wife took the opportunity to persuade her: "Since it is delicious, it is better to open a cake shop specializing in making and selling treasure cakes, and maybe you can make money! If the business is doing well, the money can be earned. After hearing this, the husband felt that it made sense, so he devoted himself to the business of making treasure cakes. After a while, the business was booming, and after continuous improvement, Bao Dou Biscuit became a well-known brand cake.
Guiyu cake is one of the three major cakes of Chaoshan in the old days. During the Kangxi period, Xue Yuanhe, a villager in Guiyu, created it. As early as the Daoguang period, it was highly praised for its fine material adjustment, no fishiness and no greasy, and was famous in Chaoshan. The fourth story about cakes circulated in Chaoshan folk is the beautiful legend of Guiyu cakes triggered by love.
A long time ago, there was a girl named Wei Ya'e in the capital of Chaozhou, who was handsome and beautiful, and her parents regarded her as the pearl of their palms. When Wei Ya'e was young, she and the son of a pastry workshop master on the same street, Xue Yaxian's childhood sweetheart, the years passed, Wei Ya'e's beautiful childhood passed, and the ruthless feudal etiquette forced Wei Ya'e to be a boudoir show girl who couldn't go out. The lonely and lonely bird-like life in a cage made Wei Ya'e's longing for Xue Yaxian deeper and deeper. Xue Yaxian has long regarded Wei Ya'e as her sweetheart, which is unforgettable. After helping his father make pastries every day, he took the opportunity to sell cakes on the street, came to the window of Wei Ya'e's boudoir, and couldn't bear to leave for a long time. Later, the two of them fell in love through the window, and when they parted, Xue Yaxian always had to stuff a piece of cake into Wei Ya'e's hand, and then reluctantly left. After a long time, Wei Ya'e and Xue Yaxian's love affair through the window spread throughout the city. When Wei Ya'e's father learned of this, he was so angry that he blew his beard and slapped the table, forcing his daughter to cut off contact with the Xue family and move the family to settle down on Guiyu Street in Chaoyang.
Lao Yan flew separately, Wei Ya'e missed Xue Yaxian day and night, often kneading the dough at home alone, imitating Xue Yaxian's movements, full of feelings, forgetting the time, she pinched, rubbed, I don't know how many times, the pinched pie crust was both thin and even, wrapped in condiments such as guabi and oil hemp, the cake made in this way has its unique deliciousness, crispy and delicious, Wei Ya'e called it "salty cake". The neighbors didn't know what was going on, so they called it "salty crackers". Later, Wei Ya'e's parents died, and Xue Yaxian rushed to Guiyu quickly, and finally married Wei Ya'e, and hung up a plaque to run their "Guiyu Cake". Because of the good taste and wide market of this Guiyu cake, the title of "salty cake" has been passed down from generation to generation.
Bread, what people like, I am good, you are good, and he is good. The cakes of Chaoshan overseas Chinese are soaked with the wisdom and wisdom of Chaoshan people, embody the strong spirit of Chaoshan people, and leave a good memory of Chaoshan people. To tell the story of Chaoshan cakes, we have the responsibility to do it without hesitation!
Author: Chen Youyi
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