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In recent years, guangzhou people have been married and have gradually resumed the custom of men's families giving dragon and phoenix cakes to women's families. Therefore, every wedding season, the tea houses and cake houses that operate the dragon and phoenix cakes each apply new tricks to recruit a wide range of bao, and the competition is quite fierce.
According to the recollections of some veterans, the dragon and phoenix cake contains auspicious omens, and the Guangzhou people are allowed to marry, and they have always used this cake as a dowry. However, the dragon and phoenix cakes of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty are divided into two kinds: dragon cakes and phoenix cakes, the cake is round, and the cake surface is distinguished by the dragon and wind statues; the filling is also different, the dragon cake is filled with pretzel and salt, and the phoenix cake is stuffed with bean paste. In the 1940s, the dragon cake and the phoenix cake were integrated, the shape of the cake became thin and round, and the two ends of the cake were molded with dragons and phoenixes, and the center was connected by a "sugar" word. This is the second generation of dragon and phoenix cakes. In the mid-1950s, because the dragon and phoenix cake was regarded as a feudal product, it was forced to stop production and disappeared from the market for more than 20 years.
At present, the "100-year-old tea house" in Guangzhou- Hui ru Lou, Tai Ru Lou and other production of dragon wind cakes, its cake shape and statue, basically modeled on the second generation, but in addition to the pretzel filling, bean paste filling, there are bean blind filling, lotus deaf filling and so on. The dragon style cakes produced by these long-established tea houses have a soft and smooth and sweet skin, and have different flavors due to different fillings, so they can meet the tastes of different customers.
In recent years, low-grade cakes such as muffins, marat cakes, nine-layer cakes, body cakes, and taro cakes, which are popular with the general public, are almost no one operates because the profits are too small. But Tao Taoju was not moved by profits and insisted on operating cotton cakes for one dime. This "big chicken eats millet" business style is widely praised by diners.
Why does the well-known Tao Tao Ju at home and abroad operate a dime of cotton cakes? There's another story here.
It is said that in the early 1960s, during the economic difficult period, raw materials such as flour, raw oil, and sugar were extremely scarce. At that time, the party called on the catering industry to "replace noodles with rice", "replace oil with water", and "replace sugar with salt", and create more affordable and popular pastries for the public. At that time, Liao Guoxi, a pastry chef at Tao Taoju, actively responded to the party's call, and when making muffins, he found that the muffin dough was particularly soft and delicious, and he thought: If you can steam ten kinds of pastries as soft and smooth as the surface of the muffins, wouldn't it be more popular with diners?
After many developments, he finally steamed rough rice to produce a new type of cake that was exquisitely soft and smooth. The production method is: the rough rice is first turned twice, then washed and soaked, ground into rice milk, and steamed with a young net to divide the pulp, using the method of steaming the muffin cake.
The steamed cake is as white as cotton, full of elasticity, the cake is small, soft and fragrant to eat, and it does not stick to the teeth. Later, Tao Taoju named it "Cotton Cake" according to the characteristics of this cake.
It was praised by connoisseurs as a popular dim sum refined from coarse materials. Soon, Tao Taoju promoted its steaming process to the city's catering industry, and it soon became a snack known to women and children at that time. In order to maintain the reputation of this famous pastry, Tao Tao Ju has been preserving it as a popular pseudonymous food for more than two decades and continues to operate.
However, now Tao Taoju's cotton cake is made of high-grade oil sticky rice, and in addition to monochrome, there are two-color, three-color and other varieties, whether in color, aroma, taste, type, etc., it is far beyond the first stage. If the customer orders a birthday cake, it can also be molded on the cake surface with words such as "Happy Birthday to You" or pattern patterns, which is a good gift.