Curd cake is one of the famous cake foods in Chaozhou. Teochew people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to moon cakes, curd cakes are also one of the essential seasonal foods.
The curd cake is small in shape, with a unique smell of southern milk, garlic and wine, and the aroma is rich, sweet but not greasy, which is the best in cake food. The ingredients for curd cake are peculiar and diverse. It is made of fine flour into the crust, the filling of white pork to be carefully cut into diced meat, etc., there are more than fourteen kinds of ingredients in total, in the production is also very elaborate, the feeding is orderly, baking also has a rule, so that the crust is thin but not cracked, the filling is full without showing dry and moist.
It is difficult to know when the original origin of the curd cake was. According to legend, there used to be a pastry shop in Chaozhou, specializing in Cantonese-style Wuren Dragon and Phoenix Cake. One year Chinese New Year's Eve night, the rich man and his wife were in the room discussing the need to change hands. The head chef was angry at the boss's ruthless righteousness, on the eve of leaving the store, secretly mixed the curd milk, wine, garlic and other materials in the kitchen into the pie filling in the vat, the boss could not bear to throw away this thing, made it into another kind of cake, raw cake embossed on the baking oven, there was a strange fragrance wafted out. The cake had just been listed, and the smell made customers drool, and they were quickly sold out. Since then, various bakeries have competed to make this kind of cake, and each has shown its strengths. The curd cake also got its name and became a traditional pastry loved by everyone in Teochew.
(Source: Chaozhou Daily)
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