Stone cake

Stone cake has obvious legacy of ancient stone cooking. The Yellow River has experienced a long historical process of human use of fire. The appearance of stone cooking method should be said to have a certain relationship with the consumption of human cereal, wheat and other granular foods. Planting grain for food began in Shennong period. Shennong is a sage among the ancestors of the Yellow River, the legendary Emperor Yan, and one of the ancestors of the Yellow River nation. He initiated agricultural production and taught people to eat grain. "White Tiger Pass" cloud; "People in ancient times all ate animals and animals. As for Shennong, there are many people and there are not enough animals, so Shennong made Lu and taught the people to work because of the time of the day and the benefits of dividing the land." However, grain is not suitable for direct barbecue on the fire, and our ancestors invented the method of "burning the valley on the stone". "Ancient History Textual Research" says: "Shennong called the people to eat the valley, and released rice and burned it on the stone." As for the "burnt valley on the stone", there are many records in other ancient books, such as "The Book of Rites and Liyun". Drink burnt millet in a cup, add it to the burning stone, and make it cooked. " "The arm-dissected sausage meat is cooked on the burnt stone." This method is to heat the stone and cook the grain directly on the stone. This is mainly to use the characteristics of slow heat transfer, slow heat dissipation and uniform heat distribution of stones to achieve the purpose of controlling the temperature. This method has been used by later generations. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a system of "stone cake", which was called "natural cake" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
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