Fried cakes with cold fruit are full of ears, and baking cakes in the furnace loves to nest. ? This is a Beijing snack written by Yang Miren in Du Men Zhuzhi Ci in Qing Dynasty. Although baked wheat cake looks ordinary, it is a representative of Beijing snacks because of its popularity.
Sesame cakes originally belonged to Hu Shi, and it was said that Ban Chao came from the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty. Because Taiping Yulan quoted the Book of Continued Han Dynasty (whose book has been lost) and said: Lingdi loves Hu cakes, and the capital eats Hu cakes. ? However, it is still controversial whether Hu cake is baked wheat cake.
However, it seems that Xinjiang's grilled naan can also be used as evidence. Grilled naan has a long history in Xinjiang, which is recorded in many historical materials in China. The Museum of Xinjiang Autonomous Region also shows the Tang Dynasty naan unearthed in Turpan, which shows that Turpan people could make exquisite naan more than 1000 years ago. Hey, ancient name? Hu Bing? 、? Luobing? .
Many famous poets in the history of China also described Nau in their poems. Bai Juyi said in the poem "Send Hu Cake and Yang Wanzhou":? Sesame cakes are like Kyoto, and the crispy noodles are fragrant and fragrant. I put it on Hungry Ambassador and Hungry Yang, and I tasted it with the help of others. ? Excerpt from Jia Sixie's The Book of Qi Yao Min? Eat classics? With regard to the technical data of making Naan, we can see that Naan has been in China's cookbooks for a long time.
"Announce the name? Diet interpretation says:? So are cakes and noodles. Hu bing, which is very big, is also made of flax. ? It can be seen that the Hu cake in Han Dynasty is very big, and there is a layer of hemp on it. Flaxseed, also called flax, can be used to extract oil. Flaxseed oil can be drunk directly, which tastes delicious, but bitter (now refined flaxseed oil has no bitter taste, but its flavor has also decreased). Many people think that flaxseed is a kind of sesame, but it is wrong. Flaxseed fruit is spherical, sesame fruit is long horn, and the two plants are completely different.
How to make Hu cakes was first recorded in the Book of Qi Yaomin written by Li Daoyuan in the Northern Wei Dynasty. In cake law? Making pine cake? , said:? Mix the dough with pulp fat and honey, with a thickness of four or five minutes and a width of six or seven inches. Then put it in the pancake oven and bake it. Don't repeat. The cake is very fat and can be kept for a long time. ? It can be seen that Hu cake is cooked in the furnace.
It can be seen that Hu cake needs two elements, one is flax, and the other is? Forced into the furnace? Bake in the oven. According to "Dream of China in Tokyo", the characteristics of Hu cake still existed at least in the Song Dynasty. Every cake shop has an oil cake shop and a Hu cake shop. Hu cake shop sells door oil, chrysanthemum, wide coke, thick edge, oil cake, pulp cake, new sample and full hemp. Every time, three or five people are used to protect Zhuo Hua from entering the furnace. Since the case of Wu Gengzhuo, the sound has been heard far and near. There are more than 50 stoves in each family, and the Zhang family and Zheng family in Haizhou were the most prosperous before the emperor built the hospital. ?
Sesame cakes are different. Early sesame seed cakes were filled with stuffing and needed to be made outside the furnace with the help of pots and pans. Obviously, even if sesame seed cake is closely related to Hu cake, it is also an improved product, otherwise the ancients would not have distinguished sesame seed cake from Hu cake so clearly.
After the Song Dynasty, the boundary between sesame cake and Hu cake gradually blurred. Some sesame seeds have no stuffing and are wrapped in sesame seeds with a more fragrant surface. In addition, in order to achieve the layering effect, some sesame seeds are baked in the furnace and coated with oil. This technology should be imported, but sesame seeds are mostly made of vegetable oil, while Hu cakes are mostly made of meat oil.
The advantages of sesame seed cake are delicious, storable and high in calories, so it is rapidly popularized among the people. Mr. Liang Shiqiu once wrote: Sesame oil sticks are one of the standard breakfasts in China, and they are probably enjoyed regardless of provinces, classes and ages in the north. I grew up in Beiping. When I was a child, my breakfast was almost a set of fried dough sticks with sesame seeds. ?
In the menu of the Qing court, there are also sesame cakes, which are minced meat sesame cakes. Legend has it that Cixi had a dream to add the fried minced meat to the sesame cake, which was delicious. As a result, the chef served minced meat biscuits that day, and Cixi was overjoyed and rewarded the chef with twenty taels of silver. Since then, minced meat sesame cake has also been called. Dream sesame seed cake? . This statement is quite absurd. Actually? Sesame cake with meat? I have already entered the DPRK, and this is the point at the Manchu-Han banquet. Because the Qing dynasty royal family had a two-meal system with a snack in the middle, it is very likely that the old Cixi would eat it for convenience. Sesame cake with meat? Become? Minced meat sesame seed cake? Princess deling has clearly remembered it. Minced meat sesame seed cake? It was invented by Cixi.