In my hometown of southwestern Shandong, what ordinary people still eat as a staple food is Shaobing, also called Diaolu Shaobing.

We call making shaobing "shaobing".

In the 1970s and 1980s, if you went back to your parents' home to visit relatives, some mothers would say, "Xiao Nizi, go to the market and make ten sesame seed cakes, skewer ten oily membranes, make ten steamed buns, and seal two boxes of fruits. Look!

Grandma goes...".

At that time, it would definitely be the most honorable thing to take all these four gifts back to your parents' home.

Generally, people with poor family economic conditions would at least take grains to a sesame cake shop to exchange for sesame cakes and visit relatives. At that time, the stoves for making sesame cakes were all made by the makers themselves.

Use an ordinary iron pot, paste a thick layer of grass, mud and white ash on the outside, open an opening of about 15 cm on one side of the pot, and buckle the pot to an iron pot of the same size underneath.

, and then supported on a wooden frame.

This is the unique Lunan Shaobing stove.

When baking sesame cakes, use lit anthracite coals in the lower pan to bake the upper pan. After the upper pan is heated, put the pancakes with salt and pepper inside, with a flower knife and sugary sesame seeds on the outside, and use your hands to remove the pancakes.

Dip some water on the back, hold the cake with the back of your hand, stick it against the inner wall of the pot, and start baking.

After the biscuits are baked, the person making the biscuits will hold an iron ring with the same size as the biscuits in one hand, and use the other hand to hold a spatula to the gap between the biscuits and the pot. After one shovel, press the back and sides of the biscuits.

The iron ring holds the front of the sesame cake, and in conjunction with it, you take out the sesame cake and place it in the dustpan frame, ready for sale.

The person making sesame cakes will look at the fire from time to time and use a hook to flick the burning charcoal, relying entirely on personal experience to control the charcoal fire.

The surface of the baked sesame cake is red and the middle is yellow. When you open it with your hands, the bottom, cover and core are separated in layers. The aroma is fragrant, crispy on the outside and crispy on the inside. It is crispy and delicious.

With the development of social economy, the old family members have become rich, and the time of using sesame cakes as gifts to visit relatives has long passed. Nowadays, everyone just regards them as ordinary food.