Sweet potato soup is a traditional snack of the Han people in the Lianjiang area of Guangdong Province, which is called "clam jumping pond" by the people of this county. Every year on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, sweet potatoes are harvested one after another, and sweet potato soups are also on the market. Ingredients: sweet potato, sesame seeds, sticky rice flour, brown sugar, water. Method 2 Sauté sesame seeds over a low heat; wash and peel sweet potatoes, make potato mushrooms, add an appropriate amount of sticky rice flour and a little cooked sesame seeds and mix into a thick paste, use a tablespoon to scoop people boiling brown sugar water and roll until just cooked, then pick up and eat. Features: soft, refreshing, sweet.
Pig cage cake, also known as "piglet cake", is a famous Han snack in Guangdong Province, and a festival food custom during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Cantonese people give traditional food to the elderly or children during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is named because of the shape of a piglet, and has nothing to do with "soaking pig cage" or "piglet bag". In short, it is a mooncake without filling, it is conceivable that there is only a ball of flour, mixed with some sugar for seasoning, although it is not as sweet and delicious as the mooncake, but in the old days when the social environment was not good, it was also a happy thing for children to have this snack during the festival.
characteristic
The shape of the "mooncake without filling" is generally shaped into the shape of a piglet, but there will be other variations, such as the shape of other animals, such as goldfish, butterflies and so on. The most special thing about the pig cage cake is that it is not carried in a box, but is packed with a plastic pig cage (or small bamboo cage), the cage is colorful, some are also tied with ribbons, or accompanied by plastic flowers, specially used to coax children, can be described as "eating and playing"! In the past, in addition to the difference between rich and poor, there was also the "difference in size" - that is, children in the old society generally did not have mooncakes to taste, even if they could afford to buy mooncakes at home, they would only be reserved for adults to enjoy, and children did not have a share. The old social concept believed that giving children food without knowing their taste and rewarding them with "expensive food" was not only too luxurious, but also the risk of violent destruction... Stinky children, only deserve to eat "pig cage cake"!
origin
There are two theories about the origin of the pig cage cake: it is said that the cake family uses the leftover ingredients after making the moon cake, so as not to waste, so it is made up and cooked into a pig cage cake. Another way to say that before the baker bakes, he must first test the effect of the oven temperature on the softness of the crust to determine the heat, and those "test products" will not be accompanied by lotus filling, just dough, and baked out is the pig's cage cake. In general, it is nothing more than "the goods in the lower column", and to paraphrase today's way of speaking, it is "environmentalism". In the early days, the pig cage cake did not have to be bought with money, and whenever a guest patronized the moon cake, the shop would give the pig cage cake as a gift, along with the rubber cage. It is also explained that gift-giving emphasizes intentions and must be "paired", so buy mooncakes and send pig cage cakes to make up the numbers.
mores
Once upon a time, Hong Kong people celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in addition to eating mooncakes, there were also piglet cakes. Today, when ice skin mooncakes are popular, piglets are gradually disappearing, witnessing the changes of the times. In the era before the use of electric baking ovens, baking mooncakes was made in brick ovens, in order to test the temperature of the brick stove and the softness of the mooncake skin after making, the mooncake skins would be left over, kneaded into small portions of the dough, and put into the oven to test the heat. Later, these unfilled dough were made into the shape of piglets in cake molds, and the baked pork cub cakes were put into a cage made of bamboo weaving, so the piglet cakes were also called "piglet cakes". In addition, it is also made into Buddha cakes in the shape of Buddha statues, or goldfish, butterflies and other shapes.
In the past, to buy mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, not every family can afford it, in order to avoid having to pay a large amount of money to buy mooncakes, many times will choose to use installment payment, called "mooncakes will be". And the giveaway of the mooncake club is the piglet cake. Later, the pig cage was changed from bamboo weaving to a colorful plastic cage, or a flower basket decorated with plastic flowers, and children held piglet cakes as toys and loved it.
The decline and extinction of the pig's cage cake may have been since the 1980s? The socio-economic improvement is probably not the main reason, but more importantly, the change in people's concepts. The previous generation thought that it was not necessary to be too good to children, afraid that they "could not afford it", that the head of the family must be the elder, and that it was a fantasy to worship the little hairy head as a little emperor; however, people now tend to leave the best to their children... I would like to ask, where is the market for pig cage cake?
Nowadays, the production of mooncakes has been mass-produced by machines, and wooden molds are no longer used to make cakes, and the production of piglet cakes has gradually been forgotten. Fortunately, the children at that time are now grown up, and more and more people miss the piglet cakes of their childhood, so many old bakeries have recently begun to produce and make. Although many have abandoned pig cages or are at an uneven price, this tradition is at least still alive.
In Wuchuan, the hometown of Chinese mooncakes, there is an old street called Datangbian Street in Meiling, which is famous for weaving pig cage cake cages. This old street has a tradition of weaving cake cages for generations, and only here in western Guangdong is a special weaving cake cage. Every year, starting in February of the lunar calendar, the old neighbors begin to weave cake cages until the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. During this time, it was the most lively time in the old street, and every family began to be busy, buying bamboo chips, opening fences, soaking bamboo pillars, and weaving pig cages around the door. Neighbors visit each other, you help me knit, I help you knit, not happy.
Merchants usually order pig cages in the fourth and fifth months of the lunar calendar, without paying a deposit, as long as they verbally say "want goods" and "how much", this business is fixed. The old neighbors began to rush the deadline and delivered on time.
It is said that there is a tradition in Datang Side Street that soon after the daughter-in-law is new, the mother-in-law will teach the weaving of cake cages by hand. Even many foreign married women in the old street weave cake cages in their husbands' homes and take them back to their mother's homes for sale.
With the withdrawal of the pitcher from the market, the knuckle weaving craft is also on the verge of being lost.
However, in Wuchuan, there are also catering companies that have taken advantage of the "collective memory" boom to launch pig cage cakes again. These pig cage cakes are no longer aimed at children, but adults who occasionally want to reminisce about their childhood.
Mooncakes, left for children to enjoy; pig cage cakes, let adults relive old dreams... Feng Shui takes turns, wonderful!
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