The most famous food in Water Margin is Wu Dalang Cooking Cake. Some people think that Cooking Cake has been lost, some people think that Cooking Cake is baked wheat cake, and others think that Cooking Cake is Shandong Pancake, which is famous all over the country today. So what kind of food is Wu Dalang Cooking Cake?

In the Shandong version of Water Margin, cooking cakes are made like baked cakes. What is a cooking cake? It is clearly recorded in the Song Dynasty's "Miscellaneous Notes on Jingkang Vegetables", "Anyone who takes noodles as utensils is a cake: therefore, those who eat by fire are called sesame cakes; Those who eat water are called soup cakes; Those who eat in a steamer are called steamed cakes. "

Later, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen's taboo was avoided, and the steamed cake was renamed as kitchen cake. Cooking cakes are steamed, not tall, and it is clearly stated in Ci Yuan that it is today's steamed bread. Why do you want to emphasize today's steamed bread? In The Water Margin, cooking cakes and steamed bread coexist, and the famous one is the "human flesh steamed bread" sold by Sun Erniang. The steamed bread in Song Dynasty refers to today's steamed buns, and the notes of Song people also say that "steamed buns are another name for steamed buns".

In modern times, steamed buns were separated. Those with stuffing were called steamed buns and those without stuffing were called steamed buns. Wu Dalang's cooking cakes are today's steamed buns, and Sun Erniang's steamed buns are today's steamed buns. Cooking cakes are not sesame cakes, and they are not Shandong pancakes. In this regard, the CCTV version of Water Margin is more professional than the Shandong version of Water Margin.

Shandong people like to eat pasta, but steaming steamed bread is more laborious and requires a certain technical content. Most people buy it, steam it at home and eat it. That's why Wu Da's profession of selling cooking cakes has been bred. Cooking cake is today's steamed bread, which has been sold in urban and rural areas all the time, and it has not been lost.

Accompanied by Wu Da, there is a child named Yun Ge, "Crispy pear, crisp pear!" " Shouted when he landed with Wu Da. The name of crisp pear still exists today. This kind of pear skin and thin juice are easy to break and difficult to preserve. It is obviously impossible for Yun Ge to sell crisp pears in winter. Even with cellar technology in Song Dynasty, crisp pears could not be preserved until winter.

If there really was an elder brother Yun in Song Dynasty who really sold pears in winter, what he sold could only be a rhubarb pear with thick skin. Yellow pears are easy to keep. When they are not ripe, they should be picked and stored in a cool place to avoid light, so the loss will not be too great in winter. Perhaps rhubarb pear was called "crisp pear" in Song Dynasty, which is really not confirmed by historical data. This pit was avoided in the Shandong version of Water Margin, and Brother Yun sold pears instead of crisp pears.