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Hongming wife cake and yuanlang are famous snacks in Guangzhou and Jiangxi. It also has a nickname called "winter velvet cake". Regarding wife cakes, there is such a legend: There used to be a loving couple, and the daughter-in-law was willing to work in a distant place to earn money to treat the illness of her father-in-law. After his wife left, the husband was not discouraged. He invented a delicious cake and finally redeemed his wife by selling cakes to make money and lived a happy life again. After this delicacy spread, it was called wife cake. You didn't expect that this little wife cake has such a story of loyalty, filial piety and love. Selling wife cakes can lead a happy life again. Compared with Wu Dalang selling sesame cakes but losing his wife and losing his life, the merits of this wife cake are much more complete.

Version 2

A Chaozhou man went to Guangzhou to work as a dim sum chef. Once when he went back to his hometown to visit relatives, he brought back a lot of Guangzhou dim sum for his family to taste. Unexpectedly, when his wife ate the dim sum he brought back after all his hard work, she said, "These famous Guangzhou dim sum are not as delicious as the winter melon wedges I made." The Chaozhou master didn't believe it, so the wife used winter melon mash as the filling and flour as the filling. I made some winter melon wedges for him to eat. After he ate them, he found them delicious. After visiting relatives, he asked his wife to make a large bag of winter melon wedges and brought them to Guangzhou for other chefs to taste. Unexpectedly, everyone said hello after eating. Since this snack was made by the wife of a Teochew chef, everyone called it "Teochew Wife Cake". Later, after some improvements, this wife cake became a famous snack in Guangzhou.

Version 3

Origined from Guangdong Chaozhou dim sum wife cake, the outer skin is baked into an attractive golden brown, and the layers of pastry inside are as thin as tissue paper and extremely crispy. When you bite into it, the crumbs fall all over the place, and you can taste the sweetness like honey in every bite! The cakes made by my wife are favored by the boss!

According to legend, there is a time-honored teahouse in Guangzhou that was founded in the late Qing Dynasty and is famous for its various dim sum and cakes. One day, a dim sum chef from Chaozhou in the teahouse brought various kinds of snacks to the teahouse. He brought such signature tea snacks home to his wife to eat. Unexpectedly, after his wife ate them, not only did she not praise the delicious snacks in the store, she even said with disdain: "The snacks in the teahouse are so bland, none of them are as good as mine." My parents’ snack is winter melon wedges!”

After hearing this, the chef was naturally unconvinced and asked his wife to make “winter melon wedges” for him to try! My wife used winter melon puree, sugar and flour to make a uniquely browned "winter melon corner". When the Teochew chef ate it, the flavor was indeed sweet and delicious, and he couldn't help praising his wife's ancestral dim sum!

The next day, this Teochew chef brought the "winter melon corner" back to the teahouse for everyone to taste. As a result, the teahouse owner was full of praise after eating it and asked who made this dim sum and which teahouse ? The chefs said: "It was made by a Chaozhou wife!" So the boss casually said it was a "Teochew wife cake" and asked the Chaozhou master to improve it and sell it in the teahouse. The result was a great success! Hence the name "Wife Cake".

The wonderful texture of the crispy and layered "wife cake" comes from the layers of puff pastry as thin as tissue paper; Chef Liu Zhenan of "Mi Ge Bakery" said that it is necessary to It takes a lot of work to make this layered texture. First of all, in terms of materials, you need to separate the water-oil dough and the pastry. Put the water-oil bread into the pastry, open it and fold it up. Repeat this twice, taking advantage of the fact that water and oil are immiscible. Characteristics, creating a crisp and distinct layered feeling! The chef said that the force should be even during the whole process, and the dough must not be broken. If the two kinds of dough are mixed together, the layering will be lost!

As for the sweet filling, the traditional Chaozhou "wife cake" is filled with winter melon puree, so it is also called "winter velvet cake". After being introduced to Taiwan, the sweet filling content was changed to simple sugar. Mainly, the sweet fragrance is equally charming and delicious!

Historical origin

According to legend, during the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty continued to collect various taxes from the people, and the people were seriously oppressed and plundered. There was an endless stream of uprisings, and the most representative team among them [1] was the uprising army led by Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang’s wife Ma was a very smart person. In the early days of the uprising, because of the wars and the lack of food, The army still had to travel around to fight. In order to make it easier for the sergeants to carry dry food, Ma came up with the idea of ??mixing wheat, winter melon and other edible things together, grinding them into powder, making cakes, and distributing them to the sergeants. It is easy to carry and can be eaten anytime and anywhere, which is of great help during marches and battles. Because the cake made from such a mess of things was unpalatable, smart people updated the method based on this kind of cake. Finally, people discovered that sugared winter melon, wheat flour, cake flour, maltose, sesame and other raw materials were used to make fillings. The cakes made are very delicious, sweet and fragrant. This is the ancestor of wife cakes.