People in Fuzhou used to bake light cakes with charcoal. Now, in order to save trouble, they mostly bake them in an electric oven. While Fuqing people make light cakes, so far light cakes < P > still retain their own set, which is not only fresh, but also interesting. To put it mildly, it can be called a labor art integrating music and dance. They bake light cakes in a vat with a height of nearly two meters and a diameter of about one meter and covered with yellow mud. First, use bundles of pine branches to light a raging fire in the cylinder to burn the cylinder wall "white", leaving only embers at the bottom of the cylinder. Then, two people cooperate to put their hands into the cylinder and stick them on the cylinder wall quickly and accurately. If they are slow, they are afraid that the bare arms will bake bubbles. Because when baking light cakes, they are faced with a big fire jar, so both of them are shirtless regardless of winter and summer. One hand delivered the embryo, the other received the embryo and pasted it into the jar. They stretched out and leaned forward, and they were agile and cooperated tacitly. Together with the crackling sound of pasting cakes, they seemed to be accompanied by music, and their sense of rhythm was very strong. In less than ten minutes, hundreds of light cakes were all pasted, and then the cakes were slowly cooked with charcoal fire, which was really an eye-opener. The light cakes baked in this vat are only golden and very crispy.

Among more than 1 kinds of local snacks in Fuzhou, light cakes are the coarsest and meanest. Its raw materials are only flour, alkaline noodles, salt, and a little sesame, which is as big as a silver dollar. Compared with Beijing sesame sauce sesame seed cake and Jiangsu Huangqiao sesame seed cake with oil and seasoning, it has no grade and no taste. In Fuzhou, people usually call the cake without sesame seeds "light cake" and the cake with sesame seeds "Fuqing cake". But in Fuqing City, 6 kilometers away from Fuzhou, people call the cake with sesame seeds on it "light cake". In terms of "relish", the light cakes made by Fuqing people are slightly better than others. < P > In the past, light cakes were all eaten by ordinary people, so they were not allowed to be elegant. Perhaps the tables have turned. Nowadays, big restaurants and hotels in Fuzhou also cut light cakes into clams, put them with bad meat, steamed pork, snow red and moss, and pour some vinegar and garlic juice as a special snack at the banquet.