Sugar onion cake is a Chaoshan snack. From Futan Village, Chendian Town, Chaonan District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, it is called Yatan, so many people call the sugar onion cake "Yatan sugar onion". It is wrapped in a round pancake bag, wrapped in long strips of sugar onions, and the shape is very consistent with the name. Sugar onion is long, with many through holes in the middle, like several onion holes stuck together side by side, and the color is white, so it is called sugar onion. Pancake skin is baked in the oven, and it is also a white, thin round cake. Sprinkle sesame seeds on the sugar onions and wrap them in pancakes.

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In the past, in many streets in Chaoshan area, you can see many stalls selling sugar onion pancakes. Pancakes are freshly made, and the sugar onions are fresh. It tastes crisp inside and tough outside. Now this kind of food has gradually lost its consumer groups and may be more common in towns and villages. It is said that it is rare in urban areas. There are some clear pictures of sugar onion pancakes and the making process of sugar onion in the book Chaozhou Food World. The author also spent a lot of time writing sugar onion pancakes. The following is a description of the sugar onions and pancakes picked from Zhang Xinmin's Watching Chaoshan: The sugar onion foil roll, also known as the sugar onion foil cake, is a Chaoshan delicacy that is about to disappear, a sweetness that people will even miss in their sleep. Now, with all kinds of modern refined candy flooding the market today, let's revisit this ancient local candy with the wings of folk songs! Let's talk about sugar onions first. The main raw material for making sugar onions is white sugar, which should be boiled in a pot, cooled to a suitable temperature, and then beaten while it is hot. The action of pulling sugar is very similar to that of Lamian Noodles in the north, except that sugar is tough and needs a fixed end to borrow money. When I was a child, I used nails nailed to wooden poles. Every time I hang a candy bar between my nails, after stretching, the two strands are hung together. Repeatedly flapping like this, the sugar constantly contains air until it becomes a white hollow rectangular candy. Then cut it into sections with your little finger, and it becomes crisp and sweet "white sugar onion". Sugar onion, as its name implies, is a kind of candy with onion holes and white as onion. Sugar onions taste crisp and loose, melt in the mouth and don't stick to your teeth. It is really delicious. The fly in the ointment is that sugar residue will always fall off when eating, so there are tin foil cakes to roll sugar onions. When it comes to tin foil cakes, perhaps many people will think of the kind of pancakes used to make stuffing when eating Beijing roast duck. However, the tin foil cakes in Chaoshan are relatively thin, about a dozen of which are equivalent to the thickness of a Beijing pancake. Chaoshan foil cake is not rolled with a rolling pin, but made in a special way. The tin foil cake maker holds a thin dough in one hand, wipes it back to the bottom of the hot pot, and the thin layer stuck on the pot solidifies into a cake, so the tin foil cake is lifted and stacked by the other hand. Wipe and collect, expose and release quickly.

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Sugar onions used to be packed in white plastic barrels, and pancakes were packed in other plastic bags, which was quite tasty.

However, it is difficult for this kind of packaging to keep the crisp state of sugar onions for a long time in summer. At present, the villagers in Futan Village have begun to use a new kind of packaging, which adopts the practice of sealing pancakes and sugar onions separately. Putting them in the same box can preserve the sugar onions for a long time, and can also bring the sugar onion pancakes to the market.