Mix dough, mix stuffing, sprinkle water, paste cakes, bake and take out the oven? At 3 o'clock every morning, in the depths of an alley in Yutang Village, Longshan Street, Fuqing City, Lin Benqing's family started their fireworks life in the tinkling sound.

As the most famous traditional snack in Fuqing, Guangbing has a history of more than 400 years. In order to commemorate the achievements of Qi Jiajun's Anti-Japanese War, the locals call this kind of scone? Light cake? Or? East cake? .

The choice of ingredients for Fuqing light cake is simple. Only four ingredients, water, salt, alkali and sesame, can collide with endless aftertaste, relying on special production techniques.

You have to make a light cake early, and it will take 5-6 hours to ferment the dough alone. Sticking and baking cakes are two processes with the highest technical content in making light cakes. First light a fire in a vat covered with yellow mud and burn the cylinder wall? White? . At the high temperature of 40 ~ 60 degrees Celsius, Lin Benqing cooperated with his wife to deliver the cake. He took the cake in one hand and quickly put it into the jar in the other. He stretched and leaned down, and his movements were smooth and neat. Soon, hundreds of light cakes were all pasted. Sprinkle water on the cake surface, seal the jar mouth, and burn a raging fire, and the smoke and aroma will turn thousands of times in one square inch. /kloc-after more than 0/0 minutes, only golden and crisp cakes were baked.

Light cakes can be stuffed with meat, oyster sauce cakes, dried bamboo shoots, peanuts and so on. , including Qinghai moss cake, laver cake and lard cake. Unique flavor and adjustable taste. Pastry is very popular among overseas Chinese in Fuqing, or it is a kind of homesickness. Light cakes are fragrant, light cakes are good, and light cakes are our McDonald's. ?

For 30 years, Lin Benqing got up early in the morning and worked, making 7 heats of light cakes in a row, and was busy until the afternoon. Every time he baked a furnace, his wife tied the bamboo basket with an electric car and transported it to the market for sale. In the street market of Fuqing, you often see a row of bamboo rafts piled with pyramid-shaped gold cakes, with? Light cake rumor? The shouts of Fuqing sweet potato cavity come and go. Fuqing people often praise it as an ordinary small pasta for all ages? Can eat from one year old to one hundred years old? .

After years of painstaking efforts, Lin Benqing's light cake shop has gained a reputation. Overseas Chinese returning from overseas and villagers returning to their hometowns always come to the store to take a few pieces to ease their homesickness with local flavor. Lin Benqing said that there are fewer and fewer people making cakes now, and there are less than 20 cake shops in Fuqing, but he has always insisted that this craft can be passed down from generation to generation. (Fujian Daily correspondent Zhong Jingjing text/map)

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