Two famous products of Yanghe are Yanghe Big Bend Wheel Pancakes.
When you come to Yanghe, you must drink good wine and taste wheel cakes.
Cut a piece of lard into dices, then take a piece of crushed rock sugar equal to the lard, then take some kumquat cake, red and green shreds, candied osmanthus, walnut kernels, etc. and an appropriate amount of white sugar, and mix them with the lard and rock sugar.
Mix well and use as pie filling.
Then use a bowl to hold some fine flour, add water and oil, and knead it into "water-oil noodles" like dumpling wrappers; then take some flour and mix it with oil to form "short-flavored noodles", and then pull the "water-oil noodles" into pieces as big as a wine glass.
Then, roll the "pastry dough" into a dough that is as big as the mouth of a teacup; then break the "pastry dough" into a dough slightly smaller than the water-oil dough, place it in the dough rolled out from the water-oil dough, knead it evenly, and then roll it into a thin dough.
Finally, roll the skin tightly into a tube shape, cut it into two sections, flatten it vertically, and then roll it into a skin.
At this time, a wavy pattern appears on the dough.
When making, place the stuffing between the upper and lower pieces of skin, pinch them together to form a lace, and the dough will be round and round in the shape of a mooncake.
Pour an appropriate amount of vegetable oil into the pot, heat it over a slow fire, add the wrapped wheel cakes, fry until the surface turns yellow and smells fragrant, and take it out when the cakes are soft.
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Sanqiao Hotel in Yanghe Town.
There are couplets posted on both sides of the store door, "Good at making Huaibei noodles; skillfully making Jiangnan delicious food".
One day, Emperor Qianlong passed through Siyang on his way to the south of the Yangtze River. He and a minister disguised themselves as rich men and went to Yanghe for a private visit.
-Looking at the couplet at the entrance of Sanqiao Hotel, I felt quite unhappy: "Humph! How capable a small hotel is, how dare you boast about this Haikou!" Qianlong entered the store, didn't eat anything else, and asked the chef in the store to follow the wheel he was riding on.
In order to make a cake, it also needs to be "golden, crispy, sweet and squeaking, beautiful to look at, delicious and tasty!" Qianlong originally created a problem on purpose, but he didn't expect that after a while, the wheel cake was really ready and delivered to the table.
Qianlong picked up a piece and looked at it from left to right: golden and round, very beautiful; biting it gently with his mouth, it was sweet and crispy, very delicious; chewing it carefully, it made a squeaking sound, which was very pleasant to the ears.
Qianlong also sincerely admired the ingenuity of the master in the shop and rewarded him with thousands of gold.
From then on, Yanghe Wheel Cake, which looks, tastes and sounds delicious, has become famous far and wide.