Cheng Chuan pancake

There is no historical record of the creation of Cheng Chuan pancakes, but according to folklore, it should be in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. What are the characteristics of this pie? Listen to two folk stories first.

One of the stories: a cake fetes the three armies. Emperor Yang Di was dissolute, the world was in chaos, and the people lived in poverty. Because he went to Yangzhou to see Qionghua, the property of the people in the hundreds of miles around the canal was exhausted and the people hated it, so anyone who rebelled was supported by the people. Among them, the Wagangjun led by Cheng is particularly popular with the people. One day, Cheng's troops arrived, and people passing by the city took out food from home to entertain the soldiers, including bread baked with flour. In order to relieve the hunger of the soldiers as soon as possible, the wheat cakes are getting bigger and bigger. A clever woman saw a big iron pot in the barracks, so she went home to make a stone batter with five buckets of wheat flour and fried it in the big iron pot. When the cake is ready, the smell of the cake makes the soldiers drool. Everyone cut the cake with knives. You and I ate a whole battalion of soldiers. Xu Maogong, a military adviser, praised, "This is really a piece of cake for the three armed forces. 1." Since then, the city cake has won the reputation of a cake for the three armies.

Story 2: Down with Cheng. Cheng, the leader of the Wagang Army, is a well-known pot-bellied man. One person has to have dinner with several people. Therefore, he is also very strong. As long as he is full and plays with a 180 kg Xuanhua axe, few people can hold his three axes. That day, he led the Wagang army through the city, hungry, and sent soldiers into the city to buy cakes to eat, and specially told him to buy more. Before the soldiers came to a house, the owner said? Quot there is only one piece of cake left. The soldier said, "No, Grandpa Cheng has a big appetite." When the shopkeeper heard that Cheng wanted to eat, but Cheng could eat, he said, "My family has enough bread for General Cheng. If he can finish it, I don't want a penny. " The soldier ran back and reported the situation to Cheng. Cheng thought: I have eaten fifty pancakes and three pounds of green onions in Cheng, and one cake is enough to plug my teeth? He said, "Tell him to bring it here. If I can't eat, I will give him ten times the money. " The soldier ran to tell the pie seller again. The seller came to Cheng with a big cake. When he put the pie in front of Cheng, he suddenly became a little silly. He stared at the bread for a long time with eyes as big as eggs and thought, "I have traveled all over the place." I haven't eaten any cake. This is the first time in my life that I have seen a cake as big as crossing the city. It is as big as a wheel. When the seller saw Cheng become speechless, he dared him to say, "General, if the cake is too big, I will cut it off." . "Cheng was most afraid of being laughed at and belittled in his life, and turned his eyes:" Who said I was too big? I ate it! " Then he rolled up his sleeves, picked up the pie and chewed it. First, he is really hungry; Second, the Huang Liang smell of this cake shell attacks people; Third, the cake paste is loud and sweet. I saw him wolfing down, and soon he ate more than half of the pie. Who knows that the later, the smaller the mouth, the more times you chew, and the slower the crumbs in your mouth chew. When the pie was only the size of a wooden comb, his mouth couldn't open any more, and his neck was as straight as a giraffe, and he couldn't move his legs. He nodded to the seller and smiled: "Good cake, good cake, give you ten times more money. 1. "The pie seller gave a thumbs up:" General Cheng is really the best man in the world, and he likes to eat me all over the city like this. "

Although the above two legends are exaggerated by people who wear city cakes, if you really want to taste them, wearing city cakes does have its own uniqueness:

First of all, the cake is big and thick. Generally, the diameter of edible cakes is about one and a half feet, and the thickness in the middle is five inches. Specially baked to give away, the diameter can reach three feet, the thickness in the middle can reach eight inches, and it weighs fifteen pounds.

Second, the fragrance outside is sweet inside. Because it is baked, the outer layer of the cake is slightly yellow and not burnt, and the smell of the wind is three miles. Inside, the hole in the honeycomb can hold the thumb: the wheat produced in Cheng Chuan has a good texture, gluten and sweetness. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Shi Chong once plowed and planted wheat here and hoarded it for the state treasury. In addition, the well water passing through the city is located in the high-quality underground water system of Shuanggou-Yanghe-tanggou, and the water quality is particularly cool, so the baked cakes are naturally sweet.

Third, it should be hot, cold and cooked. It's sweet to eat hot cakes all over the city It's also wonderful to eat cold overnight. Bite off snowflake-like debris and chew it slowly. The more you chew, the sweeter it becomes, which makes people reluctant to swallow it. There is a saying that "eat a big cake in the morning to make your mouth delicious all day". If it's cooked, it's especially wonderful. Slice the cake, put it in an oil pan, add chopped green onion and diced ginger, fry it slightly, and add water to boil it. The water boiled but the cake didn't break, and the taste was incredible. In the past, only rich old ladies could eat small stoves, which made them delicious.

Fourth, the baking process of cross-city cake is quite special. You don't need a pan to bake a big cake, you use a round-bottomed iron pan, so that the cake can be thicker in the middle and thinner in the mouth. The fire must be simmered with wood, so a cake should burn three incense sticks from the time it is put into the pot. Jinao must be patient, in order to achieve the effect that jinao is ripe but not mushy. There is a saying in the city that "you can't bake a pie with haste".

If you want to taste the beauty of wearing city cakes, you might as well take a walk in the town.