Eating cake cones is a special food in Taizhou and Xiangshan. People in Zhejiang have always had the custom of eating cake cones in Dragon Boat Festival and long summer. Why do you eat cake cones during the Dragon Boat Festival? What is the origin of the cake container?

Eating cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival

Taizhou people have the custom of eating tin cakes (wheat cakes and cakes on the 13th of May) in long summer, Dragon Boat Festival. In the early days, it was called "wiping cake", which was "first made into flour paste, then wiped evenly in a pan and cooked". This kind of wheat cake was made by mixing flour with water. When spreading the cake, the housewife put a soft and tough flour paste on a flat-bottomed pan heated at the bottom, or wiped it evenly clockwise or counterclockwise. The spread-out wiping cake with good craftsmanship is not only thin and even, but also has no holes. Some people also write the wiping cake as "tin cake", thinking that this cake is as thin as tin foil, so it is called "tin cake"; Others write "eating cakes" or "eating cakes".

According to an article, the custom of eating spring cakes can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty, but it flourished in the Tang Dynasty. Guanzhong Ji said: Tang people made spring cakes on beginning of spring Day and wrapped them with Artemisia annua, Allium tuberosum and Polygonum hydropiper buds, and gave them to each other to welcome the new year. Du Fu has a poem "Fine lettuce in spring, suddenly remembering the time when two Beijing plums were born", and Lu You also has a poem "Spring in spring, new things in spring". In the Yuan Dynasty, it was recorded that pancakes were rolled and then fried. Mr. Zhong Shuhe wrote Spring Rolls in Changsha, saying that eating spring rolls is a folk custom in Changsha. In Jinmen area, this kind of food is called "seven cakes" (reminiscent of the "seven cakes" in mahjong), and there is a legend about its origin. According to records, people in southern Anhui also make ramie cakes to eat in long summer season. There is a local wild plant-ramie, which is mashed with ramie leaves, mixed with glutinous rice flour to make cakes and steamed cooked food. As a seasonal food before and after the "long summer", there is a proverb among local people that "long summer suffers from bitter cakes and does not suffer from heatstroke in hot weather". There are also spring rolls in Vietnam on the Internet.

I don't know why, Taizhou people are used to eating tin cakes on this day in long summer, which is also called "Xiaxia" (some people write drunk in summer, while Mr. Zhou Zuoren writes "eating summer"), and there is a common saying that "Xiaxia makes wheat cakes, and it's useless to be the world." It means that long summer didn't have wheat cakes to eat that day, and he was also doing it for nothing, which shows the status of tin cakes in Taizhou. Mr. Ye Zecheng collected a poem entitled "Summer Festival (long summer Festival)", which reads: "Eating cakes is like a roll, and bean sprouts are fried with gluten. The store borrowed a balance scale and weighed a few kilograms this year. " Secondly, I eat wheat cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. In my impression, on the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown, families seldom eat zongzi, but mostly eat tin cakes. Although there is a saying that "when you eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, your cotton-padded clothes are far away", it seems that you eat zongzi more during the Spring Festival.

As for the poem about eating wheat cakes on the Dragon Boat Festival in Taizhou, I have seen the word "Good Things" written by Mr. Zhao Limin, a famous doctor in Wenling in modern times, which once said: "The festival is coming again, and the joy fills the market. The stove smells like wheat cakes and smokes. " Nowadays, people use liquefied gas more. I'm afraid it's hard to see the scene of "the stove smells like wheat cakes and smoke from the kitchen". Many people who live in the city rarely make wheat cakes by themselves.

the origin of the cookie jar

legend 1

very early on, it took fishermen from Xiangshan to go fishing for a month or two before they could go home. Women at home were worried about men's food, and the food was not easy to be stored for too long, so smart women invented the cookie jar.

Legend 2

It is said that Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese soldier, was stationed in the military camp. One night, a soldier suddenly came to report: "No! The enemy is coming in again! " Qi Jiguang was shocked, thinking: Brothers haven't eaten yet, so it's no way to go to war with an empty stomach. Suddenly, a good idea popped out of Qi Jiguang's mind, and asked his brothers to put the food in the cake and eat it while walking. So, wouldn't they fill their stomachs? Later, Qi Jiguang did what he wanted, and he defeated the enemy successfully.

Legend 3

The other one says that the cake eating tube was invented by the crazy Jigong monk in Tiantai. Seeing that there were many dishes left in each meal, he wrapped the leftovers in the crust and saved them for the next meal. Therefore, during the 21 Shanghai World Expo, the cake eating tube was also called "Jigong burrito", which made its debut as a famous Chinese snack.

cookie jar

Wheat cookie jar is also called cookie jar. Its entrance is crispy, oily but not greasy, which makes your mouth water "thousands of feet". I learned to make wheat cake cones with my mother since I was a child. Although I am not an old hand, it tastes good after eating. Making wheat cake cones is very particular, especially making skins. First, knead the bread into a round shape, then brand it on the stove board, and it will take about a few minutes to get out of the oven. The skin should be branded neither thin nor thick, so the more you see kung fu. Stuffing can be shredded pork, bean sprouts, shredded radish, etc., or ingredients according to your own taste. If you want to eat something crisp, you can wrap it and fry it. The wheat cake tube rolled in the oil pan shines golden and attractive, and it is crisp and pleasant. When eating, spread the wheat cake skin on a flat surface, put the side dishes on the skin with chopsticks, and wrap it into a ballpoint pen tube to eat. A tube in your hand, your appetite is wide open, and you take a bite, which is fragrant and fresh, and the juice is full of flavor. The mouth is full of the richness of "mountain" and the delicacy of "sea"; Take another bite, with endless aftertaste. There are golden shredded eggs, delicious braised pork and green bean sprouts ... all kinds of delicious food are available. Let you eat a tube and want to eat a tube, that kind of taste ... it's beyond words, I can't stop.