Chapter 35 Yanggu Cooking Cake

Cooking cakes in Yanggu County are recorded in "Water Margin". At that time, Mr. Wu Dalang and Ms. Pan Jinlian opened a husband-and-wife shop, and the main business was cooking cakes.Regarding Yanggu County, the impression is that after Wu Song beat the tiger, the magistrate of Yanggu County hosted a feast, and the reputation of the hero fighting the tiger has spread far and wide since then. When I arrived in Yanggu, the sun was already slanting to the west. I first went to the Lion Tower where Wu Song beat Ximenqing, and then went to Jingyanggang. , Then go to Wusong Temple to climb up and overlook.The Luxi Plain is vast and far away, the long river sets the sun, and the evening wind blows gently. The soul flickers to the depths of history and reaches the place where thoughts can reach.

There are many other important places to go in Yanggu. Sun Bin and Pang Juan's Ecstasy Formation is a village called Mihun Village. It has not been invaded by bandits for more than two thousand years, and even outsiders can't get out after entering.Mihun Village has built new houses in the same way from generation to generation. Its unique defense function is unique among villages in the world, but there is no wall around the village.Luzhuang, Cailun Village, is not far from Mihunzhen, and it is far from the military defense of Miyunzhen. It is a paper-making village.There is a stele in the village. It is recorded that Cai Lun invented the papermaking method two thousand years ago, and it was in the village that the paper was made from cotton and linen waste. Today, Cai Lun Village still uses the Cai Lun papermaking method to make paper in the slack season. excellent paper.The houses in Cai Lun Village all have half-waist whitewashed walls, about 1.5 meters wide, along the wall for a week, and are used for drying stickers.At the head of the village, there are still huge stone mills and pumping wells, which record the grand occasion of papermaking in those years.In addition, there are Haihui Temple and Catholic Cathedral complexes, all of which are original versions. Like the above-mentioned villages, they are the witnesses of the prosperous history of Yanggu County, not built for tourism.

It is a good place to travel in Yanggu, but I still think about cooking cakes. When I drink at night, I must order cooking cakes.Cooking cake is also called Wu Dalang cooking cake, which is eaten for the soil of Yanggu.Director Liu of the host tourism bureau saw that I was ordering pancakes alone, and had a little idea. I immediately said that pancakes are something I have wanted for a long time, and pancakes were served during the dinner.The cooking cakes at Yanggu Hotel are much more advanced than those at stalls, because they use oil.The cooking cakes in the stalls are also called pot stickers, which are baked without oil, which I realized later.

Cooking cake is a kind of flour food with a dry structure. Like other cakes, it is round and slightly larger than a VCD disc. There is a layer of sesame seeds on the outside. The two sides are similar, but there is no difference between the front and the back.The outside of the cooking cake is a little dry and amber in color. There is a sandwich inside. The inside of the sandwich is salt and pepper. It is soft on the outside and soft on the inside.You can eat cooking cakes without vegetables at all, but you can drink soup, or just drink it with cold boiled mineral water.When chewing, there is the crushing sound and aroma of sesame seeds. When chewing deeply, the tough surface is full of wheat, water vapor, salty taste and peppery taste, kneaded together until chewed into a cake and swallowed, it successfully gives the eater The pleasure of swallowing vigorously.Eating cooking cakes when you are hungry, the pleasure of swallowing is especially great.

In my opinion, the cooking cakes of refinedism are not necessarily good. The burnt oil-free cooking cakes sold at the stalls in the morning can only be tasted to appreciate the true meaning of cooking cakes and enter the situation of the "Water Margin" era.When I left Yanggu, Director Li of the Tourism Bureau bought me five big cooking cakes at the gate of the station. I ate two for breakfast, two for Chinese food, and took one to Zhengzhou.Eating cooking cakes in the Internet age can experience the real original ecological life.Carrying a bag of cooking cakes on your back, wearing Masona's mille-soled cloth shoes to go to Beijing to rush for exams, and begging for water to eat on the side of the road when you are hungry, this is the original version of Chinese intellectuals.As for whether Wu Dalang was the first to create the pancakes, it has not been verified. However, in Yanggu's "Water Margin" and Song Street, you can still eat pancakes made by Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian, but they are clones.