Zhangjiadu sesame seed cake

Product name: Zhangjiadu sesame seed cake Product origin: Taizhou Linhai Product features: fragrant and crisp, delicious. Product Description: In the Qing Dynasty, with the development of local economy, the shape of Zhangjiadu's sesame cake changed, and it became like the ancient copper coins, with the outer circle inside. The common people called it "copper coin cake", which meant to behave and be upright at home, be flexible and improvise when doing business with foreign countries. Some people call this cake "navel cake". At the same time, Zhangjiadu also produces fire biscuits. There are two kinds of baked sesame seeds, one is salty, and the cake contains fat pork and green onions cut into small pieces. One is sweet, and the cake contains bean paste and sugar. These two kinds of baked sesame seeds are cooked with white charcoal fire in a sesame seed cake furnace. As for whether it will be crispy or not, the key is: the weight of "crisp", the weight of "crisp" is more, and the sesame cake is delicious. "Crispy" is made by mixing lard and wheat flour. Before liberation, there were four or five sesame seed cake stalls in Zhangjiadu Street, and some even opened fire sesame seed cake stalls in Shanghai Chenghuang Temple. Because this kind of cake is fragrant, crisp and delicious, it is deeply appreciated by Shanghai customers. Product history: According to legend, in the Ming Dynasty, when Qi Jiguang, a national hero, fought against the Japanese in Shangfengling, Baishuiyang, the battle was tense, and the local people were asked to prepare some dry food, preferably strung together and hung on their bodies, so that they could eat dry food while fighting. Later, when the army passed by Hutou and Changtan, the local people thought that there was a cake shop in Zhangjiadu Street, so they sent people to Zhangjiadu to contact and order. When Zhangjiadu bakery learned of this situation, it tried to change the original oblate sesame cake into an angular shape with a small hole in the middle, so that it would not be broken when it was baked with a rope.
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