hi! Hello everyone, today Xiaobian to explain to you the Hubei traditional specialty "Huangshi Hong Kong Cake".
Huangshi Port Cake is one of the traditional Han chinese spots in Huangshi City, Hubei Province, with a long history of production, and many vivid and interesting stories and evolutionary historical stories. Legend has it that as early as the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, There was a dragon and phoenix cake that was popular with the masses in Daye, Hubei Province. Here Liu Fengtai grocery shop cake master Liu Heyi in order to improve the flavor of the cake to expand sales, on the basis of the dragon phoenix cake, with flour. sugar. oil. Orange cake and other raw materials are refined and finely made, one cake has hemp on one side, bulging very high, and covered with the big red word "auspicious", crispy and delicious, and selling very well. For local rural men and women to get engaged, a necessary gift for marrying a daughter-in-law, this cake is named "consensual cake" after the name of the person.
Yellowstone Harbor Cake
During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Yin Huazhai, a local wooden row merchant in Daye Yinzu, ma limen partnership, went to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to sell timber to Suzhou, and once the wooden row to the Huangshi Port river broke a salt boat, for which the two sides had their own opinions, arguing endlessly, and then the lawsuit was fought from the locality to Kyoto, and the wooden row merchant took the "sanitary hemp cake" (that is, changed the heyi cake to two-sided hemp seed, the hemp color was golden, shaped like the current Hong Kong cake) for hunger and consumption, and as a tribute, it was sent to the relevant minister of culture and martial arts of the court, because this cake was fragrant and fragrant, delicious and delicious. Praised by the people of Kyoto, later the emperor learned that after asking the row merchants to offer "tribute cakes" the emperor tasted, he was extremely favorable, and the wooden row merchants took this opportunity to present the above words, and after the emperor saw it, he felt that the wooden row merchants were reasonable, and the four sentences of the imperial approval said: "The row is like a mountain, the boat line is like Yan Fei, the sound of gold is three times, why yan does not fly" The wooden row merchant fought a lawsuit. The "sanitary hemp cake" was also famous in Kyoto, and later began to be privately owned in several lime kilns in Daye Huangshi Harbor.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the town of Huangshigang was established because it was Yangxin in southeastern Hubei. HUANG Zhou. QI CHUN. Water. GUANGji. Huangmei and other eight counties a large number of household payment products circulation market, but also Wuhan, down to Jiujiang, the Yangtze River steamship berthing port, often there are Chinese and foreign passenger and cargo ships in and out of the port, vendors gathered, sanitary hemp cake sales channels are getting bigger and bigger, due to the large sales of hemp cakes, coupled with the merchants transported to urban and rural sales, at that time is ten paper bags can be used baskets to pick, consumers mouth praise the characteristic flavor of the hemp cake produced in Huangshi Port, the days are long, habitually known as "Hong Kong cake".
After liberation, in the name of the place of origin, called Huangshi Harbor Cake, with the improvement of people's lives, sales have doubled, the city's various manufacturers have production, while in the process and packaging has made great improvements and improvements, so that the product has a substantial growth, packaging bright color beautiful, novel and generous, easy to carry, is the best food for tourists and consumers. Yellowstone Harbor Cake is made from flour. sesame. rock candy. Small sesame oil. Money Orange Cake. Sugar osmanthus and other more than a dozen kinds of superior raw materials. With its gong strings and drum edges, hemp color, yellow and bright, crisp and refreshing, sweet and refreshing, smooth and appetizing, long aftertaste and a unique flavor with a rich natural hemp aroma, it is famous in Hubei and sells well throughout the country.
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