"Climbing mountains, nibbling on wheat cakes, mountains and rivers, insect bites." In the past, in Yongjia, people often carried their own wheat cakes or toiled into the fields or walked on the mountain paths, thirsty for a few mouthfuls of mountain spring water, and hungry for a few bites of wheat cakes.
Wheat cake originally from Yongjia Shatou, in the past, there was a lot of sand around Shatou Town, this kind of land could not grow rice, but it was unexpectedly suitable for planting wheat, so almost every household in Shatou planted wheat. Harvest thousands of pounds of wheat a year, eat more than enough at home, and the extra will be ground into flour to make wheat cakes.
Once Yongjia wheat cake is the dry food in the hands of travelers, is the staple food of the crops to fill the hunger, but now the Yongjia wheat cake is more and more refined, the taste is more and more abundant, from the rough roadside snacks into Yongjia's special cuisine, but also become one of the local cultural symbols, its production skills were selected into the Wenzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
Yongjia wheat cake is notoriously large, the filling is also "plump" terrible, pickle stuffing and plum vegetable stuffing wheat cake is the most classic.
Pickles or dried plum vegetables with half fat and half lean meat or pure fat and lean, that is all the filling of Yongjia wheat cake. Gradually, the taste of wheat cake was also enriched, and a lot of other stuffed wheat cakes were added, such as vegetable head shreds, perilla vegetables, etc., and the taste was also excellent.
Eating wheat cake now is not only to fill your stomach, but also a kind of nostalgia for your hometown and past life. Thousands of Yongjia people who are traveling south and north miss their hometown and want to eat an authentic Yongjia wheat cake, but it is not so easy.
Source: Hangzhou Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce Yongjia Travel Investment
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