Then say a few "desserts" with stories!
One: "old woman cake"
I heard such a joke: one day, a guest official ordered a cage of meat buns in a teahouse. After biting it, there were many dishes, but there was no meat. So I went to the shop assistant to ask questions. Who knows, the shop assistant confidently retorted, "Do you have a wife when you eat old lady's cakes?" Xiao er's nonsense makes people laugh and cry.
Two: "rose nine-layer cake":
Rose nine-layer cake looks attractive, with seven layers of colorful cakes. According to legend, the seven layers of cake were formed by the seven fairies in the sky.
According to legend, the Queen Mother celebrated her birthday and the heaven was very lively. The seven fairies felt very bored, so they secretly came to the world to play. I don't know how time passed, but it got dark. The Seven Fairies were tired of playing and planned to return to the Heavenly Palace. But let them try their best, and they can't get what they want. It turned out that a god put a spell on them in order to punish them, so that they could not return to heaven. Hungry, the seven fairies had to hide in the kitchen of a family's house and eat the cakes that the family would celebrate tomorrow. Among them, there is a kind of cake specially made by the chef to enhance the atmosphere of the banquet. It has seven layers, and each layer has different colors, which is particularly beautiful. At this time, someone went to the kitchen. In desperation, the seven fairies got into each of the seven layers of cake and made two layers of cake noodles as a cover.
At the banquet the next day, a guest saw this beautiful cake and asked its name. The host didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he used his quick wits and replied, "Rose nine-layer cake." Since then, this snack has been handed down with this beautiful name.
The rose in the rose nine-layer cake contains rose oil, eugenol, citronellol and other ingredients, and its smell is fragrant. It is made into stuffing spice with sugar stains, which is slightly bitter and mild in nature, and can regulate qi and relieve depression, replenish blood and disperse blood stasis. Nine-layer cake is a kind of sweet rice cake, which is made by soaking white rice, grinding it into gouache with a stone mill, stirring it into slurry, adding sugar water, putting a thin layer of gouache on a copper plate, heating and steaming, and then adding flour layer by layer to nine layers. Residents in Foshan and Nanhai love to make "nine-layer cakes" in festive seasons, taking its auspicious meaning of "a long time, rising step by step".
Three: "Fried cakes and plums"
The famous fried cakes in Beijing are often eaten as breakfast, with thin skin and big stuffing, crisp outside and tender inside, sweet and delicious.
On the occasion of Cixi's 60th birthday, after receiving the worship of Emperor Guangxu and officials of civil and military affairs, she wandered around Suzhou Street in the north of Wanshou Mountain in the Summer Palace and was attracted by the unique skills of the young man "Fried Cake Li" (whose real name is Li Zhenfeng) who sells fried cakes here. Cixi tried the fried cake of "Fried Cake Plum" and praised it greatly, so she came to a plate of "Fried Cake Plum" every day.
Fried cakes are divided into cream fried cakes, yellow wheat fried cakes, Jiangmi fried cakes and instant noodles fried cakes. The cream fried cake is tender outside and fragrant. Yellow wheat Fried Cake is golden in color, crispy in skin, soft and delicious. Hejiang rice noodle fried cake is made of milled rice, which has a unique style. The fried cake with hot noodles is crisp outside and soft inside, which is very sweet. Fried cake tastes first-class and is deeply loved. Legend has it that after someone became rich, he vowed to replace fried dough sticks with fried cakes for breakfast in the future.
Four: Saqima:
Saqima is one of the famous Beijing-style four seasons cakes in Beijing. I used to write "Shaqima" and "Selima" in Beijing. Saqima has the characteristics of beige color, crisp and soft taste, sweet and delicious, and rich fragrance of osmanthus honey.
Legend has it that there was an old man who made snacks for decades, and he wanted to make some innovations. He was inspired by another snack in Guangzhou, "Egg Powder". He fried the dough with eggs, then mixed it with white sugar, kneaded it together, and squashed it into cubes. It was made into the "Saqima" today, but the old man didn't think of a name for it immediately after he made it, so he couldn't wait to pick up two baskets and pack his new product and sell it on the street. It's a pity that the weather was bad and it began to rain. Just as the old man went to the door of a rich family to avoid the rain, he stood for a while, and the owner of the mansion came back on a big horse. Drink to the old man: "Old man, you are really bold. Did you come to my door in business?"? "The old man said," Grandpa, I'm just staying here for shelter from the rain. When it stops, I'll leave. "But the rich man threw two baskets that the old man put on the ground into the middle of the road. Wow, the old man's hard-made "Saqima" was lying in the rain mixed with sand, and it was all reimbursed. Well, it's worth it. It's really a loss this time. The old man rushed to the road and picked up the "Saqima" full of sediment. He looked at the rich man bitterly and read: "Kill the rider, kill the rider, ..." Later, the old man made the "Saqima" to sell, and it was very popular. People asked the old man what the name of this thing was. The old man said, "kill the horse." After it spread, it became the current "Saqima" because of the bad meaning of the name, and then it became the familiar "Saqima" in Mandarin.
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