The image of Wu Dalang in Water Margin has always been a very honest man in many people's minds. He goes out to sell cooking cakes every day and does his own business in peace. Cooking cake is inseparable from Wu Da. When it comes to Wu Da, you can't help but think of cooking cake. For our present people, it feels like cooking cakes are our present sesame cakes, but they are not.

First of all, I want to talk about the concept of pasta in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is different from our current concept. What I want to talk about here is steamed bread, steamed stuffed bun and bread in the Northern Song Dynasty. ? Today's steamed bread has no stuffing, while steamed buns have stuffing, which is the main difference between them. Today's steamed buns and steamed buns are all steamed, while flour cakes are mainly baked or fried, which is the main difference between cakes and other flour products. However, it was called differently in the Northern Song Dynasty. The so-called baked wheat cake or cooking cake is actually today's steamed bread. And steamed bread, in fact, is the kind of stuffed buns today. The steamed stuffed bun in the Water Margin era is a special steamed stuffed bun with thin dough and a lot of stuffing, which mainly eats stuffing instead of skin. At that time, the baked wheat cake also had a special name, called Hu cake.

Song dynasty? 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. ? But there is such an explanation in Ci Yuan? Zhao Zhenshi, Song Renzong, was shunned by people because of the proximity of steaming to Zhen Yin, and called steamed cakes cooking cakes. ? Therefore, the original name of cooking cake is steamed cake, and cooking cake is steamed. Cooking cake is a very cheap and popular food. Brother Yun told Wu Da that Wu Da wanted to give him ten cooking cakes. Does he think that? Cooking cakes is not good? Wu Da insisted on inviting him to eat meat and drink, which shows that even the poor in the street don't think cooking cakes are delicious. ?

"Ci Yuan" explained later that steamed cakes? That is, steamed bread, also known as cage cake? , that is, the true face of cooking cake, turned out to be the steamed bread we eat in our daily life. Not the steamed bread at that time, because it has been explained earlier that the steamed bread at that time was similar to the steamed buns now.