Zhoucun sesame seed cake is a traditional snack in Zibo, China. It is named after it is produced in zhoucun district, Zibo City, Shandong Province, and it is one of the famous Chinese dishes in Shandong Province. Zhoucun sesame seed cake has a long history of more than 1,800 years. It is said that it was created by a gentleman named Guo Yunlong on the basis of horseshoe-shaped thick sesame cake.
Its shape is round and yellow, with sesame seeds on the front and brittle holes on the back. It is as thin as a poplar leaf and as crisp as an exception. The mouth is chewed, and the fragrance fills the mouth and abdomen. If you accidentally fall, it will all break into pieces, commonly known as "Guala leaf sesame seed cake". Zhoucun sesame seed cake is made by traditional technology. It is a handmade product with four characteristics: crisp, fragrant, thin and crisp. It is nutritious and suitable for all ages. After several technical transformations, it has become a traditional snack that is well-known at home and abroad, a household name and deeply loved by consumers all over the world.
Zhoucun sesame seed cake originated from "Hu cake" in the Han Dynasty, which was interpreted as "cake" by Liu Xi in Biography of Names at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Faces are merged. Hu cake is very big and covered with flax. "Twisted, which means soaking and kneading noodles;" "Big and flat" refers to a big and flat shape; Flaxseed is a kind of high-quality plant seed. The Chinese Dictionary explains: "Flaxseed, sesame, is said to be planted in the western regions of Zhang Qian, hence its name. "
Therefore, from the perspective of raw materials, Hu cake is a kind of flour cake covered with sesame seeds, which is the same as sesame cake today. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, Zhoucun was interpreted as "cake" in the book Ming Jie, which radiated the surrounding Shang Dynasty. Faces are merged. Hu cake is very big and covered with flax. "Twisted, which means soaking and kneading noodles;" "Big and flat" refers to a big and flat shape; Flax is a high-quality plant seed.
The Chinese Dictionary explains: "Sesame, that is, sesame, is said to be planted in Zhang Qian, an important town in the west, and there are many businessmen. At that time, the traffic was underdeveloped and businessmen were away all the year round. In order to make the food easy to store and carry, the chefs of local restaurants got inspiration from the local folk food "pancake" baked with tobacco seeds, and adopted the manufacturing technology of pasting and baking when making Hu cakes in the western regions to create a well-known "Zhoucun big crisp sesame cake", which is Zhoucun sesame cake.
Around the middle of Ming Dynasty, Zhoucun Jia Chamber of Commerce gathered various snacks, and a "Hu-cake stove" with baked Hu-cakes (an original baked sesame cake) was introduced to Zhoucun. The chef of the restaurant uses the characteristics of thin, fragrant and crisp sesame cakes, and uses the method of baking Hu cakes to make the famous big crisp sesame cakes. It is round and thin, with hemp seeds on the front and brittle holes on the back. It is called the dry leaf of poplar, and if it falls on the ground carelessly, it will all become broken cakes. Sesame cakes are salty and sweet, and can be preserved for a long time without deterioration. After 1880, the old-fashioned "Jujizhai" sesame cake shop first began to use paper packaging, and it has been passed down to this day.
Conclusion Sesame cakes also have a long history. There are not a few vendors selling sesame cakes on the ancient streets. Hu cake used to be sesame cake. Did you improve your posture? Do you remember the origin of this delicious snack?