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Shaped like a steamed bun, is a Shandong Yuncheng (now Shandong Liaocheng) Wu Dalang invented.

Cook cake

Cook cake chuī bǐng Cooked cake, steamed pasta.

Yanggu County's chuī bǐng (炊饼), which was recorded in Water Margin, was the main item of business of the husband-and-wife store opened by Mr. Wu Daolang and Ms. Pan Jinlian in those years. The Water Margin, the 26th (Jin batch of the 25th), He Jiu Shu went to Wu Da to burn paper money, said: "small person the day before yesterday to buy a fan of Lang Lang cage mother cooking cake, not return the money, especially this stranger paper to burn with the Lang." Jin Shengqi criticized: "Since reading to catch adultery one day, meaning long and 'cooking cakes' two words do not carry on, do not want to put forward here. Things are not the same, people have to cry wuda also." Wuda and cooking cakes are inseparable, mention Wuda, can not help but think of cooking cakes. So, what exactly is the cooking cake? People's Literature Publishing House published in 2000, "comic water Margin" book cloud: "Some people may think it is the Shandong pancakes or today's baked cakes, baked cakes and so on, wrong, the cooking cakes are not pancakes, pancakes are spread; not baked cakes, baked cakes, baked cakes, baked, branded, while the cooking cakes are steamed, it is actually a small snack in the South, similar to the light of the Fujian pancakes. "　It's not bad to say that cooking cakes are not biscuits or pancakes, but it's a big problem to say that cooking cakes are a southern snack "similar to Fujian light biscuits". The easiest way is to check the "Dictionary", which says: "Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, because the steam and Zhen sound close, people avoided, called the steam cake for the cooking cake." This is evidenced by the Song Cheng Dachang "evolution of the prosperous record", Wu Zhuhou "green box miscellany" records. Cookies are steamed cakes, then what are steamed cakes? Dictionary" explains that "that is, steamed bread, also said cage cake". (On the "Dictionary" this statement, there is still controversy, some people believe that cage cake refers to the ancient steamed buns, that is, today's buns, rather than today's steamed buns, so it is different from the steamed cake, see "knowledge of literature and history," 1991, No. 8.) Cookies turned out to be steamed buns. The author of "Comic Talking about Water Margin" later also listened to opinions and amended the above view.　Cookies or steamed cakes have a very early origin, and the Jin Book of Biography of He Zeng mentions that He Zeng was "extravagant in nature" and "did not eat steamed cakes unless they had a cross on them". Cracked cross pattern of the steamed cake, probably what is known today as the "flowering steamed bread". Yang Wanli of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote a poem entitled "Eating Steamed Biscuits", which reads: "He's cage cakes must be cross, Xiao's cooking cakes must be four broken." This shows that a good cooking cake should be very soft and warm. Dongpo Zhilin" recorded that the court had built Bianhe Doumen in an attempt to use the river mud silt field, "and autumn deep water retreat and put, then the silt can not be thick, called the steam cake silt." Probably refers to the silt loose and insubstantial, similar to the steam cake it.

Edited allusions

Except for the passage about Wuda, the Water Margin does not have many references to the cooking cakes, the 53rd time to write Dai Zong teased Li Kui with the magic method, "touching a few cooking cakes in his arms to come from the food." In the 56th chapter, Xu Ning got up in the morning and "washed up, and told him to heat up some hot wine. Ya Huan arranged for the meat and cookies to go up, and Xu Ning ate them." In addition, the 73rd time to write Yan Qing, Li Kui, "then asked to cook down dry meat, do the steam cake, each bag of material packed, chained to the side, away from Liu Taigong Zhuang." Water Margin" also mentioned steamed buns, and cooking cakes are two different things. Wu Sung came to Sun Erniang store, Sun Erniang introduced: "This family has good wine, good meat, to snack time, good big steamed bread." This Jianghu famous "human steamed buns", obviously more like today's buns, is stuffed, Song notes did record that "buns that buns alias". Later, I do not know how a circulation, with filling commonly known as "buns", and not with filling is called "steamed bread" - said that the cooking cake is "steamed bread ", that is, refers to this "steamed bread". But this change is not absolute, now the famous Shanghai snack "fried buns", is still filled.　In the "Water Margin" story took place in the era, the status of steamed bread is obviously higher than the cooking cakes. According to the Song Hu Zai's "Fisherman's Hidden Words", the state school and the Imperial College to the students of the food supply is: "Spring and Autumn cooking cakes, summer cold Tao, winter steamed bread." Cold Tao is cold noodles. Some students received steamed bread, they can not eat, take home to relatives and friends, indicating that in this three kinds of steamed bread to be considered a good thing.