In the 1980s, the small county town was the place where the state-owned enterprises gathered the most, and most of the residents in the town worked in state-owned enterprises. There are many small towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and all kinds of traditional snacks in the town have a certain inheritance. For example, soup dumplings, tea cakes, steamed dumplings, snow dumplings, crisp socks, orange cakes, Ding Sheng cakes, plum blossom cakes and, of course, lard sesame cakes.
Although the problem of food and clothing was basically solved at that time, everything became more popular, and televisions and washing machines began to enter the families of small town residents. However, pocket money is still a luxury for me in primary school, so it is impossible to have free snacks. Only when I behave well can I have a chance to beg my parents to cook a sumptuous meal. Therefore, the sesame seed cake stall in Hutongkou has become the best place for our friends to solve the problem of greedy insects, but it also needs to accumulate changes to achieve it. I remember that 90 years ago, the price of a lard biscuit was 1 cent, and the varieties did not change much, that is, lard and shallots. Take a bite of the freshly baked sesame seed cake, which is a mixture of charcoal and flour and tastes crisp. After biting, the oily smell of lard mixed with the smell of shallots impacts the taste buds and enters the nasal cavity, leaving the smell directly on the head. Don't think too much. Next, you blow it because it is hot, and then you bite it. At that time, because of the geographical location, the sesame seed cake stall in Hutongkou became the network celebrity sesame seed cake stall at that time, and it was a few years. The most interesting scene is on weekends, when the economy of the town may be very good, so there are always some homeless people living in Rufang Hotel. Guangfu Qiaotou has become a small market, and there are often some Jianghu people selling pangolins and tiger bone wine. There are also charlatans who claim to wash people's eyes. They will magically take out many white bugs from their eyes with a chopstick, which makes people feel sick and curious. Occasionally, some powerful pill sellers and fortune tellers will set up stalls and a group of people will display their skills. The sesame seed cake stall is next to it. Buy a cake and watch the fun. It's full of delicious food. Behind the sesame seed cake stall, a new way of eating was invented, that is, a small pot was supported by the charcoal stove to fry stinky tofu. After baking, cut a hole, fill it with fried stinky tofu, and then coat it with sweet noodle sauce and a little hot sauce with a small spoon. After eating this way, sesame cake is an addictive food. If you don't eat it for a while, it will be remembered, so that it has become a gourmet memory in your hometown.
It seems that all children in those days had their own piggy banks. At that time, coins had three denominations: 5 cents, 2 cents and 1 minute. My piggy bank is made of a bamboo knot, and a small mouth is cut at the top of the bamboo knot to put the biggest nickel. But the money you put in can't be taken out unless you split the jar. At that time, I practiced a skill in order to eat a baked wheat cake, that is, shaking the bamboo pot desperately, and then tick out the coins bit by bit with a pin, so I can eat a light lard baked wheat cake and add a stinky tofu to make up 1 .5 cents, which is often delicious at this time. Now think about it. At that time, my father should have known that coins were missing from the bamboo pot, but for the sake of his children's delicious food, he kindly tolerated their self-righteous cleverness. This is also a kind of father's silent love, which has always accompanied me simply and warmly until now.
Until the mid-1990s, as a result of road expansion, roadside stalls gradually decreased, sesame seed cake stalls also moved, and then gradually faded out of our lives, but the smell of onion mixed oil was printed in our memory. For the fun of digging money in bamboo pots in those days, it is estimated that children can hardly feel it in a highly digital sense of the times.