According to the records, Jinhua shortbread first appeared in Zhong Fu Lu written by Wu, Pujiang, Wuzhou, Southern Song Dynasty. The shortbread he said was filled with honey, which is slightly different from today's dried vegetables and meat stuffing. Jinhua shortbread developed to 1980s, and after continuous improvement in technology, it successfully developed ham shortbread, beef shortbread, sweet shortbread, spicy shortbread, double sesame shortbread, Jiangyan shortbread, braised pork and bean paste shortbread, Hongmiao shortbread and other varieties.
And charcoal baking is changed to far infrared oven baking, and non-toxic polyethylene bags are used instead of paper packaging. As early as 1989, Jinhua shortbread won the title of "provincial excellent product". Nowadays, Jinhua shortcake shops are blooming everywhere in Jinhua city, and the fragrance is everywhere, which adds to the taste of gold guests from all over the world. At present, there are more than 40 large-scale manufacturers in Jinhua city, with a daily output of 60,000, and established production and marketing links with more than 20 cities across the country.
Jinhua shortbread has a long history. Interestingly, its founder was Cheng Yaojin, the devil in the world. Cheng Yaojin, one of the twenty-four founding fathers of the Tang Dynasty, made a living selling baked wheat cakes in Jinhua in his early years. On one occasion, he made too many biscuits and didn't sell them all day. He saved the cake and prepared to continue selling it tomorrow. However, if the biscuits go bad, they can't be sold. So, in order to prevent the baked wheat cake from going bad, Cheng Yaojin put all the baked wheat cakes on the hearth.
He thought: let the fire keep baking, and the sesame cake will not go bad! The next day, when Cheng Yaojin got up, he saw that the meat oil in the sesame seed cake was baked, and the crust was more oily and crisp, and it was all shortbread. As soon as this cake went on the market, it immediately attracted many people. Everyone saw that Cheng Yaojin's cakes were very different from before, and they all scrambled to taste them. Cheng Yaojin was so happy that he shouted at the top of his voice, "Come and buy it! Sweet and crisp shortbread! "
This call, more people buy it. People contend that Cheng Yaojin's skills are getting better and better. Some sesame cake shop owners also asked Cheng Yaojin for the "secret recipe" in a serious way. Cheng Yaojin burst out laughing and said, "I don't have any secret recipe! It's just a night by the fire. "