Wu Daolang and cooking cakes are inseparable, and you can't mention Wu Daolang without thinking of cooking cakes. So, what exactly is a cooking cake? People's Literature Publishing House published in 2000, "comic book Water Margin" book cloud: "Some people may think it is the Shandong pancakes or today's baked cakes, baked cakes and so on, wrong, the cooking cakes are not pancakes, pancakes are spread; not baked cakes, baked cakes, baked cakes, baked, branded, and the cooking cakes are steamed, it is actually a small snack in the South, similar to the Fujian light cake. "

Saying that the cooking cake is not a baked cake, pancake, this is good, but saying that the cooking cake is "similar to the Fujian light cake" of the southern snacks, there is a big problem. The easiest way is to check the "Dictionary", which is said: "Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, because the steam and Zhen sound close to the people to avoid, call the steam cake for cooking cake." This is evidenced by the Song Cheng Dachang "evolution of the prosperous record", Wu Zhuhou "green box miscellany" records.

Cook cakes are steamed cakes, then what are steamed cakes? Dictionary" explains that "that is, steamed bread, also said cage cake. (On the "Dictionary" this statement, there is still controversy, some people believe that cage cake refers to the ancient steamed buns, that is, today's buns, rather than today's steamed buns, so different from the steamed cake, see "knowledge of literature and history," 1991, No. 8.) Cookies turned out to be steamed buns. The author of Manhua Shuihu has since taken advice and amended the above view.

This may be related to the cooking cakes

The cooking cakes or steamed cakes originated very early, the "Book of Jin" He Zeng biography mentioned that He Zeng "sex extravagance and luxury", "the steamed cakes do not chap on the cross will not eat". Cracked cross pattern of the steamed cake, probably what is known today as the "flowering steamed bread".

Yang Wanli of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote a poem entitled "Eating Steamed Cake", which reads, "Ho's cage cake must be a cross, and Xiao's cooking cake must be four broken." This shows that a good cooking cake should be very soft and warm. Dongpo Zhilin" recorded that the court had built Bianhe Doumen in an attempt to use the river mud silt field, "and autumn deep water retreat and put, then the silt can not be thick, called the steam cake silt." Probably refers to the silt loose and insubstantial, similar to the steam cake it.

In addition to writing the passage of Wuda, "Water Margin" mentioned the cooking cakes of the place is not much, the 53rd written Dai Zong with the magic method of teasing Li Kui, "the arms touch out a few cooking cakes from eating." In the 56th chapter, Xu Ning got up in the morning and "washed up, and told him to heat up some hot wine. Ya Huan arranged for the meat and cookies to go up, and Xu Ning ate them." In addition, the 73rd time to write Yan Qing, Li Kui "then asked to cook down the dried meat, do down the steam cake, each bag of material packed, chained to the side, away from the Liu Taigong Zhuang."

Baozi was called steamed bread

"Water Margin" also mentioned steamed bread, and cooking cakes are two different things. Wu Sung came to Sun Erniang store, Sun Erniang introduced, "This family has good wine, good meat, when you want snacks, good big steamed buns." This Jianghu famous "human steamed buns", obviously more like today's buns, is stuffed, Song notes did record that "buns that buns alias". Later, I do not know how a circulation, with filling commonly known as "buns", and not with filling is called "steamed bread" - said that the cooking cake is "steamed bread

"Three attempts to level the demon biography" story also took place in the Northern Song Dynasty, the 9th write Ren Qian sell cooking cakes, biscuits, steamed buns, sour stuffed cakes, etc., the left crippled master bought a cooking cake, said: "my mother eighty years old, how to eat the cooking cake? Change a steamed bun with me." Get the steamed bread, I heard that "a color of meat in the inside", and said: "My mother to eat long vegetarian, how to eat? Give me another steamed bun with sand filling." And then he said, "I don't think I can eat enough sand, so I'm still going to change back to the pancake.

This kind of steamed lotus leaf cake may be closer to the cooking cake

Ren Qian's cooking cake a sell seven Wen, very cheap, very popular. Water Margin in the Yun brother to Wu Da report, smack of "cooking cakes do not help", must Wu Da treat him to meat and wine, see even the poor people do not take the cooking cakes as a delicacy.

According to the Song Hu Chai "Campsis Fishing Hidden Words", the state school and the Imperial College to the students of the food supply is: "Spring and Autumn cooking cakes, summer cold Tao, winter steamed bread." Cold Tao is cold noodles. Some students received steamed bread can not eat, take home to send relatives and friends, indicating that the three kinds of steamed bread to be considered a good thing.