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Fuzhou, February 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Under the pot of noodle cakes, a "squeaky" crisp sound, oil flowers accompanied by charcoal fire, the crust quickly turned brown, and the fragrance came to the face... In Xiaozhen Township, Minhou County, Fuzhou City, this refreshing sweetness adds a "New Year's flavor" to the upcoming Spring Festival.
Gift cakes are traditional pastries with a strong Fuzhou flavor, and the gift cakes in Xiaozhen Township, Minhou County, are particularly outstanding, and are representative items of the county's intangible cultural heritage. Chen Xuechao, a representative inheritor of this intangible cultural heritage project, runs a humble but often in short supply of cakes "century-old shop", and the ancestral cake making skills have been passed down to him in the third generation.
Chen Xuechao makes ceremonial cakes, and still retains the handmade charcoal baking process, and the heat and filling are very elaborate. According to the different fillings, the gift cake is divided into sweet and salty. The sweet cake filling contains fatty meat, sugar, roasted peanuts, winter melon candy and so on. The filling of the salty cake is filled with green onions and spices instead of winter melon sugar. The gift cake is based on the weight of the specification, mostly 0.5 kg per piece, but there are also 1.5 kg, 2.5 kg of large cakes, mostly used as wedding and birthday banquets and other happy gifts. Every year during the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals, many diners also buy to taste or give away to relatives and friends.
"In recent days, in addition to the orders needed for weddings, birthdays and other happy events, seven or eight hundred pounds of gift cakes can be sold every day, which is five or six hundred pounds more than the usual retail sales, basically customers buy them to eat themselves, or as an Annual gift for relatives and friends." Chen Xuechao said that because the gift cakes were selling well before the Spring Festival, the family had to get up at five or six o'clock every morning to burn charcoal, prepare ingredients, and bake cakes, and did not finish work until seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Although it is hard work, because the festival is approaching, selling scones has become a pleasure.