Salty old man's cake is a kind of cake obtained by referring to the change of sweet old woman's cake, which belongs to the pastry category. The biggest difference from old woman's cake is that old woman's cake is sweet and old man's cake is salty. The main raw materials of salty old man cake are wheat flour, cake flour, maltose, floss, refined salt, sesame, south milk, coconut and other raw materials. According to legend, during the early Ming Dynasty, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty kept collecting various taxes from the people, and the people were oppressed and plundered more seriously. There were an endless stream of uprisings all over the country, among which the most representative team was the rebel army led by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang's wife Ma Shi was a very smart person. At the beginning of the uprising, because of the wars at that time, food was often not enough, and the army often had to run around and fight. In order to facilitate the sergeant to carry dry food, So Ma came up with something edible, such as wheat, cake powder and wax gourd, and mixed them together, ground them into powder, made them into cakes, and distributed them to the sergeant. It was not only convenient to carry, but also convenient to eat anytime and anywhere, which played a great help in marching and fighting. Because the cakes made from such messy things are unpalatable, so smart people update their methods on the basis of this kind of cakes. Finally, people find that the cakes made from sugar wax gourd, wheat flour, cake flour, maltose, sesame seeds and other raw materials are very delicious, and the entrance of the cakes is sweet and delicious, which is the ancestor of the sweet old lady cakes and salty husband cakes!
After countless years, until the beginning of the last century, the husband's cake was always in a single variety and single production method, and it was not until the establishment of the Book of Rites bakery that the husband's cake was further expanded and developed. After nearly a century of baptism, the Book of Rites bakery has become a century-old brand that is well-known at home and abroad today, and the husband's cake has also changed from a single product to more than 20 varieties, hundreds of production methods and husband's cakes with different tastes, among which salty. The "Macao Special Salted Husband Cake" produced by Book of Rites Bakery has become a famous specialty product in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Europe and the United States with traditional manual technology, ancient secret system and modern advanced production technology!