Legend has it that Emperor Xuanyuan once made an alchemy in the furnace of Dinghu Peak in Jinyun Mountain. He is very focused. When he was hungry, he grabbed a piece of dough and baked it on the furnace wall. After the Yellow Emperor in Xuanyuan Huangdi descended from dragon to heaven, the local people imitated the Dan furnace of the Yellow Emperor with clay, made pottery stoves and baked dough to eat.
Later, this technology of using ceramic furnace to paste cake blanks and baking cakes with charcoal fire was a unique traditional technology of Jinyun and Jinhua.
It is also said that Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was fascinated by eating sesame cakes in Jinyun when he was fighting in Jinyun. When he became emperor, he was specially awarded the title of chef who made Jinyun sesame cakes and made sesame cakes for him.
One day, Zhu Yuanzhang took a bite of baked wheat cake and met Liu Bowen. So Zhu Yuanzhang put a sesame seed cake on the plate and deliberately tested Liu Bowen: "Sir, do you know what's under the bowl?" Liu Bowen replied: "Half like the sun, half like the moon, once bitten by a golden dragon. According to my calculation, it is a sesame seed cake. "
There is Liu Ji's Pancake Song as evidence:
"One day, Ming Taizu lived in the inner hall to eat baked wheat cakes and had an argument with him. When he was in prison, he suddenly met Liu, a patriotic teacher. Mao took it with a bowl, then called him in and finished the ceremony. The emperor asked Ji, "Sir, do you know what's in the bowl? "? Kenai counted with his fingers. He said, half like the sun and half like the moon. It was once bitten by a golden dragon, and so was this food. I did open my eyes. "
Liu Ji studied in Shimen cave in Qingtian in his early years, not far from Jinyun, and must have eaten Jinyun sesame seed cake; I think that "pinching fingers" is fake, and I can smell the familiar smell of Jinyun sesame cake from a distance. Speaking of which, maybe someone asked Jinyun that he was a high relative when he climbed the Forbidden City. In fact, the delicious taste of Jinyun sesame seed cake lies in "soil". Jinyun is a small county town in the mountainous area of southern Zhejiang, with simple folk customs and rich products since ancient times; Cookie chefs are mostly semi-farmers; The raw materials of sesame cakes are either self-sufficient or have neighbors' supply chains.
major constituent
Flour, pork (sandwich meat), dried plums, salt, maltose, sesame.
Production steps
1. Flour is mixed into dough; There are different methods in winter and summer. Hot soup in winter and cold water in summer. In summer, doing it now is different from delaying it. Use hot soup now and postpone using cold water.
2. Dice the sandwich meat, add dried plums and salt, and mix to taste.
3. Pick out the dough, wrap it in the stuffing, knead it flat, and roll it into a round cake blank with a diameter of about 10- 15 cm.
4. Brush a little malt maltose and sprinkle sesame seeds on the front of the cake blank, and brush a little water on the back and stick it on the inner wall of the burning barrel heated by charcoal fire.
5. Barbecue with charcoal fire for 3 to 4 minutes. When the cake surface is golden and the fragrance overflows, use special iron pliers to clip it out.