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One of the four famous cakes in Guangdong: the origin of chicken cakes

There are four famous cakes in Guangdong: wife cake, almond cake, blind man cake and chicken cake.

Chicken pancakes are very popular among the public.

Chicken cake is one of the four famous cakes in Guangdong. I believe friends in Guangzhou have eaten chicken cake, but do you know the origin of chicken cake?

Let us learn about Guangdong culture and the origin of chicken pancakes.

Xiaofeng is Wu Ziyuan's maid and is from Shunde.

It is said that one day in the early autumn of the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1855), the host Wu Ziyuan received guests from out of town. It happened that the chef was not available, so he ordered Xiaofeng to make a Cantonese snack for the guests. Since there was no cooking material at home, he went to

Chengzhulou kneaded the Huizhou plum vegetables stored all year round together with the five-nut cake filling (it was the mooncake season at that time), added the fat pork marinated in sugar, mixed it with refined salt, spices, etc., wrapped it in a cake skin, and kneaded it into a shape.

Shape into balls, slightly flatten, bake in oven over slow fire until crispy, take out and serve to guests.

After tasting it, the guests felt that it was sweet, fragrant, crispy, sweet and salty, salty and sweet, and had a unique taste, so they praised it and asked what the name of this cake was.

Since this cake was skillfully made by Xiaofeng, the owner casually called it "Xiaofeng cake".