Eat omelet cake on Dragon Boat Festival.
Taizhou people have the custom of eating tin cakes (wheat cakes and cakes) in the long summer, Dragon Boat Festival and May 13th. In the early days, it was called "spreading cake", which means "making batter first, then spreading it evenly in the pot and cooking it". This kind of wheat cake is made by mixing flour and water. When spreading the cake, the housewife puts the soft and tough batter on a flat pan heated at the bottom, or wipes it evenly clockwise or counterclockwise. The spread wiping cake with good technology is not only thin and uniform, but also has no holes. Some people also write "tin cake" for wiping cakes, thinking that this kind of cake is as thin as tin foil, so it is called "tin cake"; Others write "eat cake" or "eat cake".
According to an article, the custom of eating spring cakes can be traced back to Jin Dynasty, but it flourished in Tang Dynasty. Guan Zhongji said: In beginning of spring, people in the Tang Dynasty made spring cakes, wrapped them with Artemisia annua, leek and Polygonum hydropiper buds, and gave them to each other to welcome the New Year. Du Fu has a poem "Fine lettuce in spring, suddenly remembering the time when two Beijing plum blossoms were born", and Lu You also has a poem "Spring comes, spring comes, new things come". It was recorded in the Yuan Dynasty that pancakes were rolled up and then fried. Mr. Zhong Shuhe wrote spring rolls in Changsha, saying that eating spring rolls is a folk custom in Changsha. In Jinmen area, this kind of food is called "seven cakes" (reminiscent of the "seven cakes" in mahjong), and there is a legend about its origin. According to records, people in southern Anhui also make ramie cakes to eat in the long summer. There is a local wild plant-ramie, which is mashed with ramie leaves and mixed with glutinous rice flour to make cakes for steaming cooked food. As a seasonal food around "Long Summer", there is a saying among local people that "Long Summer Bites Bread, No Heatstroke on Hot Days". There are also Vietnamese spring rolls on the Internet.
I don't know why, Taizhou people are used to eating tin cakes in the long summer. This day is also called "summer" (some people write "drunk summer, Mr. Zhou Zuoren writes" eat summer "), and there is a saying:" Eating wheat cakes in summer is a waste of the world. " It means that there was no wheat cake to eat in the long summer, and he made it for nothing, which shows the status of tin cakes in Taizhou. Mr. Ye Zecheng collected a poem called "Summer Festival (Long Summer Festival)", which wrote: "Eat cakes like rolls, and bean sprouts stir-fry gluten. The store borrowed a balance scale, which weighed a few kilograms this year. " Secondly, I eat wheat cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival. In my impression, during the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown, every household seldom eats zongzi, but mostly eats tin cakes. Although there is a saying that "eating zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival is far away from cotton-padded clothes", it seems that more zongzi are eaten in the Spring Festival.
As for the inscription on eating wheat cakes at Taizhou Dragon Boat Festival, I have seen the word "good things" written by Zhao Limin, a famous doctor in Wenling in modern times, which once mentioned: "The festival is coming again, and the city is full of joy. The stove smells like wheat cake and smokes. " Nowadays, people use liquefied gas more. I'm afraid it's hard to see the scene of "the stove smells like wheat cakes and the kitchen smokes" Many people who live in cities seldom make their own wheat cakes.
The origin of eating cake tube
Legend one
A long time ago, fishermen in Xiangshan had to go fishing for a month or two before they could go home. Women at home are worried about men's food, which is not easy to store for long, so smart women invented the cake container.
Legend 2
It is said that the famous anti-Japanese warrior Qi Jiguang was stationed in the military camp. One night, a soldier suddenly came to report: "No! The enemy has come in again! " Qi Jiguang was surprised and thought, Brother hasn't eaten yet, and there is nothing he can do to go to war on an empty stomach. Suddenly, a good idea came to Qi Jiguang's mind, asking his brothers to put food in the cake and eat it while walking. So, won't they fill their stomachs? Later, Qi Jiguang got his wish, and he successfully defeated the enemy.
Legend 3
The other said that the cake cone was invented by the crazy monk Jigong on the rooftop. Seeing that there were many dishes left in every meal, he wrapped the leftovers in a flour bag and saved them for the next meal. Therefore, during the 20 10 Shanghai World Expo, the cake eating tube, also known as "Jigong burrito", made its debut as a famous Chinese snack.
Cake feed pipe
Wheat cake tube is also called cake tube, which is crisp, oily but not greasy, and makes you feel "drooling". I learned to make wheat cake cones with my mother since I was a child. Although I am not an old hand, it tastes good after eating it. Making wheat cake cones is very particular, especially making skins. First roll the bread into a circle, then brand it on the stove board, and it will be out of the oven in about a few minutes. The skin should be branded neither thin nor thick, and the more you look at kung fu, the better. The stuffing can be shredded pork, bean sprouts, shredded radish, etc. , or ingredients according to your own taste. If you want something crispy, you can wrap it up and fry it. The wheat cake tube rolled out of the oil pan is golden and attractive, crisp and pleasant. When eating, spread the wheat cake skin on a flat surface, clip the side dishes on the skin with chopsticks and wrap them in a ballpoint pen. A tube in your hand, your appetite is wide open. Take a bite, it is fragrant and fresh, and the juice is overflowing. The mouth is full of "mountain" richness and "sea" delicacy; Take another bite, and it will be memorable. There are golden shredded eggs, delicious braised pork, mung bean sprouts ... all kinds of delicious food. Let you eat a tube and want to eat a tube, that taste ... beyond words, I can't stop.