For hundreds of years, before the Lunar New Year in the countryside around Hongqiao, every family had to "make kon" and "make cakes". To make rice is to make white rice, each household must make a few cartons, do less also do a few buckets. "Starting cakes" is a muffin cake, and each household must have several or dozens of fans. From the muffin cake, Tujili, the new year's higher happiness, higher longevity, higher wealth, pinning on the people's expectations and pursuit of a better life. The production of muffins has been passed down by the People of Hongqiao for hundreds of years, and it is indeed sweet and delicious, sticky but not greasy, which can be used as a meal and become a famous pastry. Therefore, muffin cakes in Hongqiao have gradually developed from family cakes around the Spring Festival to famous pastries that are gifts all year round. The home-made of muffins also went to the market twenty years ago, and there are two professional muffin shops at the intersection of the famous Hongqiao Langan Bridge.
The "Hongqiao Muffin Cake Old Shop" was opened by Yao Shuangfen and his wife for more than 20 years. "Fat East Cake" was opened by Xue Yuye and his wife, and it has been nineteen years. When I was a child, I loved sweets. Chinese New Year's Eve eat freshly steamed muffins at night, a feeling that is both sweet, fragrant and hot, and cannot be forgotten in old age. The "New Year" impression I remember in my mind is that there are new clothes to wear and new shoes to wear on the first day of the first month of the new month. There are also muffins to eat in the first month. Sometimes, when eating, steaming hot to eat, usually hungry, you can also go to the kitchen cabinet at any time to get a few pieces of muffins to eat. As a child, muffins were both my meal and my snack. My snacks also include fried rice, candy strips, sweet potato fries, peanuts... But in retrospect, it is still the muffin that tastes the most. Hongqiao is the birthplace of the folk song "To the Bird", and everything and thing has been made up of folk songs and ballads. "Send muffins" is sung like this: Muffin muffins are tall and tall, and I invite my uncle to eat muffins. Muffin pine, send uncle, muffin thick, send uncle. Warm muffins, send aunts, muffins cooked, send grandma. The muffin cake is sweet, and the thin noodles are eaten. The muffins are fragrant, and the delicate child eats the yuan cavity. Eat the muffins, the more you eat, the higher. Eat out of nostalgia, eat out of affection, eat out of human feelings, eat out of love. You can also eat **, eat out of the literary style, poetic. I remember when I was a child, there was a "cake steaming" in the family, which was a tool for steaming muffins made by The Old Master of The Log, made of six wooden planks, and a hexagonal iron sheet in the middle, which had many holes in the iron sheet, which was used to steam the muffin. My family also has a "wheat mill", which is specially used to grind glutinous rice flour and white rice flour. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with white rice flour, added with brown sugar, and walnut meat, bacon, raisins, red melon, sesame seeds, and mixed with rice flour. Layer by layer into the "cake steaming", boiling water in the iron wok, before steaming the muffins one by one. In the current muffin shop, the process of making muffins is also traditional, and the raw materials used are also traditional, but the tools are modernized. Soil "cake steaming" and "wheat mill" have been replaced by flour mills, water mills, and steam engines. Large, medium, and small muffins are packed in cartons because muffins have become gift commodities. It can also be delivered as a giveaway. Some families have changed the candy to the muffin, because fewer and fewer people eat candy, and the gift of the happy event will push the muffin out. The book "Hongqiao Ancient Rhyme" says that Hongqiao mung bean cake, white elephant fragrant cake and dajing dong rice candy were once Yueqing famous pastries. With the passage of time, Hongqiao mung bean cake has gradually been forgotten and rare. The Hongqiao muffin cake, after decades of change, has been selected by Hongqiao as a famous cake. Yao Shuangfen, the old muffin shop owner, told me that in the past twenty years, she has brought out nearly ten apprentices who have learned to make muffins. There are big thorns, hibiscus, Weng Yuan, white elephants, Willow City, Shenhai, and even Linhai, after going back to open a shop, the business is very prosperous. Muffins are a famous delicacy in Hongqiao. They stained the light of the rainbow bridge, and they were also red! Hongqiao Muffin has gone to the whole city and out of Yueqing. May the Hongqiao muffins, the business prosper all over the world, and the source of wealth flourish up to the three rivers. Make our lives more sweet and sweet, rich and rich. Source: Hongqiao Portal Network