Manna cake is a famous delicate pastry of Tianchang and is also a pastry full of New Year's flavor.
"Manna Cake" is an intangible cultural heritage of Anhui Province. With its beautiful appearance, white as jade, cascading like blooming white peony flowers, "good color and taste" and other characteristics, in 1979 Anhui Province Pastry Exhibition conference won the honor of "Anhui Province High Quality Famous Pastry", in 1988 participated in the "First China Food Expo" won the bronze award.
The production of "Manna Cake" began in the light years of the Qing Dynasty. Legend has it that The Heavenly Chief, Dai Lanfen High School Champion, in order to thank the Emperor for his grace, he brought his hometown specialty "Longgang Snow Dumplings" into the capital to present to the imperial court, and after tasting it, the Daoguang Emperor felt that it was crispy and sweet, oily but not greasy, melted in the mouth, delicious and delicious, such as manna, it was very appreciated, so he gave the name "Ganlu Cake", so it was also called "Tribute Nectar Cake". Since then, "Nectar Cake" has been worth a hundred times because it has become a "royal tribute", and both dignitaries and merchants have competed to buy it to give gifts to relatives and friends and entertain guests.
The nectar cake is well-selected, the production process is complex, and it is made by hand. For more than a hundred years, only a few tea houses can do it, and in ancient times, the old shop of "Xia Sanyuan" did the best. The entrance is crisp, crisp, fragrant, sweet, favored by the majority of merchants, have come to buy, every year spring festival, Ximen Old Street pastry shop is busier than usual, at most a day can sell more than five hundred cakes, or food or gifts to relatives and friends, a small piece of cake is a nostalgia that must be brought home, is the wanderer back to his hometown to taste the taste of hometown.