Crispy cake

Crispy silk cake "Banpimple" is a famous snack in Xiangyuan County, formerly known as "Crispy Silk Cake", with golden color, crisp and dry fragrance, lingering fragrance after eating and endless charm. It is made by mixing fermented flour fertilizer with dry flour, adding lye, kneading thoroughly, making an oval cake embryo, which is divided into two parts, and baking it on a griddle with charcoal fire. Because it is half a cake, it is called "half a knot in one's heart". Why is it called "semi-pimple"? According to legend, Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, and Liu Xiuju, a descendant of the Han Dynasty, rebelled. However, when preparing to attack a place called Wancheng, the main force led by Zhen Qiuci, a general of follwed, stopped him. After a fierce battle, Liu Xiu retreated and fled alone, begging along the way and fleeing to Shibei Village in xiang yuan. One day, Liu Xiu, who was starving, fainted to the ground. Master Guo, the hawker, felt sorry for him, so he broke off half of the freshly baked "crispy sesame cake" and handed it to Liu Xiu to eat. Liu Xiu was so hungry that she wolfed down a clean meal. After eating, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Master Guo, making three obeisances, and said, "If I have a future, I will thank you again!" Get up and leave. They thought he was hungry and talking nonsense. Later, Liu Xiu won the world and sat in the throne dragon chair. Every day, delicacies and delicacies were always boring. One day, I suddenly remembered the half of the "crispy sesame cake" I ate in Shibei Village, xiang yuan when I was in trouble, so I sent someone to invite Master Guo to Kyoto for hospitality. Master Guo taught the cooking method of "Crispy Silk Sesame Cake" to the Imperial Kitchen. Liu Xiu ate the crisp and delicious sesame cake and said, "The taste is almost the same. Why are the shapes different?" Master Guo said, "I broke half of a cake for you to eat." Liu Xiu said, "Half a baked wheat cake saved my life, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am today. I think you might as well split it in two and call it' half a lump'." After Master Guo returned to his hometown, he added a cutting process to the original round "crispy sesame cake". In order to comply with the emperor's instructions, the crispy sesame seed cake was changed to "half a knot in one's heart", which has been passed down to this day.
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