The traditional Snack of Chaoshan is curd milk cake

Curd cake is one of the famous traditional Han Chinese cake snacks in the Chaozhou area of Guangdong Province. It is soft and delicate, sweet with a special fragrance. The ingredients for curd cake are peculiar and diverse. It is made from fine flour to make a crust. In the pie filling, the curd milk block 2.5%, the famous wine contains 2%, the white pork is selected and cut into diced meat, accounting for 18.2%, the powder sugar content is 27.5%, and the garlic head, etc., the total number of ingredients is more than fourteen. In the production is also very elaborate, the feeding is orderly, and the baking is also methodical. In this way, the crust is thin and not cracked, the pie filling is full but not exposed, and it is dry and moist without burning.

The famous Teochew small scavenger cake has an interesting legend in Teochew folk. It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Ding monopoly owner in Chaozhou who was very harsh on the workers he hired, and often did not pay for them. One year is coming, a teacher who works in a cake-making workshop, thinking that he has not been paid for many months, the new year is coming, I am afraid that by the end of the year I will not get a penny, the more I think about it, the more Angry, after an evening of work, the teacher Fu will put all the raw materials for making cakes in the workshop, peanuts, sesame seeds, white pork, garlic, southern milk, flour, sugar oil, wine, etc., put away all the brains, pour into a large vat, and stir vigorously, and then pack up and leave the rich man's house indignantly. A few days later, the rich man Ding could not find this teacher everywhere, and the wife of the rich man Ding opened the door of the workshop and suddenly smelled a special fragrance, which actually came from the cylinder where the teacher Fu poured the raw materials as garbage in order to vent his anger.

Later, the Ding rich man's family made a pie according to the ingredients of the raw materials in the tank, because the taste of the southern milk made was particularly prominent, so this kind of cake was called curd milk cake (southern milk was also called red curd milk and red tribute rot in Chaozhou).