Northern mixed grains are based on corn, and the corn flour is called stick flour, also known as mixed and noodles. Because the common name for corn as a stick, so get this name. Southerners do not understand, so there is a misunderstanding. Once upon a time, the novels said that poor women shed tears and sent the cornmeal to their mouths one by one. Corn flour mixed with soybean flour within, so called miscellaneous and, in fact, this is such as the proportion of three or seven mixed in, it is particularly sweet, so it is not considered any coarse grains, but made into a nest, it is like black bread, ordinary as the poor people's food only. South, such as Zhejiang East Taizhou and other places, the people also usually eat cornmeal, but called six grain paste. Guangxu Ding You year just a week from now, I live in Hangzhou, a nanny surnamed Song is Taizhou people, often brought to eat, plus white potatoes, when I was a child I thought it was very tasty. Ordinary cake to eat, is the so-called nest nest, is made into a cone, and empty which, a fist so big, because the bottom is a nest, so it is the name. The people eat this thing, probably originated very early, history can not be found in the record, when the time of corn. Originally, these things do not need to try to find its origin, but now, such as occasionally find a little record, know what era, there has been, that is not very interesting.

Wo Wo Tou origin of history is not available, but we know that at least in the Ming Dynasty has been the name, that is, to go to the present day has a history of more than three hundred years. Li Guangting, "the countryside speech to solve the Yi" Volume V, contained Liu Kuanfu "seven things under the sun poem", the end of the chapter said and "love nest nest", a small note cloud, "nest nest to the glutinous rice flour for the shape of the Lantern powder Ly, sugar filling, steamed outside the grits from the powder, the top of a concave, so the name of the nest nest. The field is eaten with mixed grain flour, large or to catty Xu, under a nest as old and restored. The teahouse made very small, said love nest, rumor has it that the rich in the Ming Dynasty addicted to it, because of the name of the Royal love nest, today but said love only". According to this, love nest due to the Royal love nest nest of the abbreviation, then the name of the visible nest in the Ming Dynasty that time has been there. That is to say, farmers use cornmeal to make this food, with this name, has also been a long time The world is no coincidence, the story of the Wo Wo Tou has the following. There is a restaurant in Beihai Park called "Imitation Cuisine", which means it imitates the practice of the Imperial Cuisine. Their famous food, there is a "small nest", said to be also related to Cixi, according to legend, the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight-Power Allied Forces into Beijing shortly before, Cixi and other people fled in a mess, and for several days to catch up with the road, with the pastries are all eaten up. When they arrived in Xi'an, Cixi was so hungry that she ordered them to stop the car and asked them to find food. Attendants thought, she is used to eating the sea food, soft pastries, now where to find. So the men only humming answer, no way to start. Cixi see, fire: "you this bunch of lackeys, how not to find food, want to starve me ah!" A eunuch said: "the old master rest assured that the slaves are not unwilling to find, but this place, no village before and no store, where to find ah?" Just saying, Cixi see not far away from the people fleeing, is sitting and eating, she pointed and said: "You go and see." Eunuchs ran to see, fleeing people eat cool nests. The eunuch reported back that they were eating coarse food nests. Cixi has never heard of what is called the nest of head, the heart is strange, personally get off the car to visit, see is a yellow-orange food, those who eat is fragrant. She went up and asked: "This thing, delicious?" An old man back said delicious. Cixi belly empty, unconscious mouth born saliva, also want to taste, then said: "can you give me a taste?" The old man quickly handed over one. Cixi took a bite, feel the flavor is good, eat up, ah! It smelled really good! In a short while, a big nest of head was eaten up by her.

Later, she returned to the Beijing Palace, whenever tired of eating the table full of imperial food, remembered that time to eat when fleeing - the nest nest, can be said to be memorable. So ordered the Imperial Household Food Room to do Wo Wo Tou to eat. Wo Wo head sent, is also yellow-orange, she tasted, smack, smack, feel not that taste, in a fit of rage, and killed a few cooks. This can be difficult to bad royal kitchen, which cooks are not afraid of death, who still dare to do her nest. We get together to think of ways. Or an old chef came up with an idea: "We use chestnut flour with sugar, do Wo Wo head, try to see if she loves to eat?" So, we did chestnut noodles nest sent, Cixi tasted, quite tasty, said happily: "I finally ate again when I fled the nest." News back to the imperial kitchen, we are relieved. From now on, the imperial kitchen of the dim sum spectrum and added a product of the small nest nest. In fact, this nest is just more than the current add some material, it is said that there are: corn flour, chestnut flour, soybean flour, sugar and other materials, so the flavor is also unique, so in addition to the real wowow head on the face of Beijing, there are two kinds of Aiwowo and small wow head, leaving a little trace of history. "Wo Wo Tou" is extremely small things, but not expected to have such an interesting history, visible in some food things such as to examine, there must be many things can be found.

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