Uncle Zhang, 58 years old, a native of Monanwanli Village, Ruicheng County, Shanxi, worked in a supply and marketing agency for 11 years after graduating from high school, earning 8 divisions of labor at that time, which was equivalent to earning 1.6 dimes a day. After the reform and opening up, he learned the technique of making stone cakes with his elders, worked for a while in Sanmenxia, Henan, and had to come to the morning market in the western suburbs of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, because of the demolition of the store, to sell stone cakes. Stone cake, is an ancient flavor snack in Shanxi, because of the inheritance of ancient cooking technology, by experts called "living fossils", and because of its deep and long-standing folk traditions, it is also known as "the first cake in ancient China".
Stone cake not only has the characteristics of crispy and salty, nutritious, easy to digest, resistant to storage, etc., but also is loved by people because of its unique production method. Because it is made by placing the cake embryo on top of a hot stone, it is named. Stone cake has a distinct ancient stone cooking heritage. The Yellow River has gone through a long historical process of using fire. The emergence of stone cooking should be said to have a certain relationship with the consumption of grain foods such as human grain and wheat. Planting grain for food began in the Shennong period. Shennong is the legendary Yandi, who pioneered agricultural production and taught people to eat grain. On the surface, Uncle Zhang sells cakes, but in fact, he is also inheriting the ancient food culture.
His wife has always been a good partner for him, and he can't do this kind of business alone.
The stone cake with meat is very delicious, and it is called Mrs. Mei (meaning particularly beautiful) in Shanxi dialect.
Children are waiting to buy local delicacies.
They make a variety of stone cakes to meet the needs of diners of different tastes.
The small fritters they process with egg yeast noodles are also popular with diners.
Due to their hard work, they not only built more than 100,000 houses at home; they also bought a new house of 120 square meters in Yuncheng, with a down payment of 160,000 yuan and a monthly mortgage of more than 2,000 yuan. Now that their grandson is in second grade, it's inconvenient to have no house in town. Now that you buy a house, the room for appreciation in the future may be relatively large, at least better than saving money, right? (If you have touching stories around you, please pay attention to the public WeChat "Chen Rong Photography" and leave a message.) ）