Pancake tubes are a special delicacy in Taizhou and Xiangshan. Zhejiang people have always had the custom of eating pancake tubes during the Dragon Boat Festival and Beginning of Summer. Why do we eat cake cones during the Dragon Boat Festival? The origin of the biscuit tube?
Eating pancake tubes on the Dragon Boat Festival
Taizhou people have the custom of eating tin pancakes (wheat cakes, pancake tubes) on the Beginning of Summer, Dragon Boat Festival, and May 13th. In the early days, it was called "wiping cake". The wiping cake is "made into a slurry first, and then spread evenly in a pan and cooked." The making of this kind of wheat cake is to mix flour with water to make a flour slurry. When spreading the wiping cake, The housewife takes a ball of soft and tough flour slurry and puts it on the flat-bottomed griddle plate that is heated at the bottom. She spreads it evenly in a circle either clockwise or counterclockwise. A well-made pancake will not only have a thin skin, even texture but There are holes and the outer circumference is "round and round". Some people also write wiping cakes as "tin cakes", thinking that the cakes are as thin as tin foil, so they are called "tin cakes"; others write "eating cakes" or "Xi cakes".
According to an article According to research in the article, the custom of eating spring pancakes can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty, but it flourished in the Tang Dynasty. "Guanzhong Ji" says that people in the Tang Dynasty "made spring pancakes on the first day of spring and wrapped them with spring mugwort, yellow leek, and polygonum buds." Giving gifts to each other means welcoming the new year. Du Fu has a poem, "Spring plate with thin lettuce, suddenly remembering the plum blossoms in the two capitals", and Lu You also has a poem, "Spring plate with new things" appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, using pancakes to roll stuffing. There are records of fried food. Mr. Zhong Shuhe wrote "Spring Rolls in Changsha" and said that eating spring rolls is a folk custom in Changsha. The Kinmen area calls this food "Seven Cake" (reminiscent of the "Seven Cake" in Mahjong). , there is also a legend about its origin. According to records, people in southern Anhui also make ramie cakes during the Beginning of Summer. There is a local wild plant ------ ramie, which is made from ramie leaves and mixed with glutinous rice flour. They are made into cakes and steamed before eating. As a seasonal food before and after the Beginning of Summer, there is a local proverb that "eat bitter cakes at the beginning of summer to avoid heatstroke in hot weather." You can also find spring rolls in Vietnam.
For some reason, Taizhou people are used to eating tin cakes on the day of the Beginning of Summer. This day is also called "疰夏" (some people write it as "Zuixia", and Mr. Zhou Zuoren writes it as "疰夏"). There is a common proverb: "疰夏咒米" Cake, fall in vain (lu) to be a worldly person. "It means that there are no wheat cakes to eat on the day of Beginning of Summer, and life is in vain, which shows the status of tin cakes in the hearts of Taizhou people. One of the Linhai Festival folk poems collected by Mr. Ye Zecheng, "Xianxia (Lixia Festival)" reads: " The pancakes are like rolls, and the bean sprouts and side dishes are stir-fried with gluten. The store owner borrowed a scale to weigh how much he weighed this year. "The second thing is eating wheat cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. In my impression, on the Dragon Boat Festival in my hometown, households rarely eat rice dumplings. Instead, they mostly eat tin cakes. Although there is a proverb that "if you eat the Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, you will be sent cotton-padded clothes far away." "In a word, eating rice dumplings seems to be more common during the Spring Festival.
Regarding Taizhou's Dragon Boat Festival eating wheat cakes, I have seen the phrase "Good things come soon" written by Mr. Zhao Limin, a famous doctor in Wenling in modern times. Mentioned: "Duan Festival is coming again, and joy fills the countryside. Oatmeal cakes are fragrant on the stove, and smoke rises from the rafters. "Nowadays, people use liquefied gas more and more. It is probably difficult to see the scene of "the fragrant wheat cakes on the stove and the smoke rising from the rafters". Many people living in the city rarely make wheat cakes by themselves.
< p>Origin of the pancake tubeLegend 1
In the early days, fishermen from Xiangshan went out to sea to fish for one or two months before returning home. Women at home They were worried about the food for the men. The food was not easy to store and would spoil easily after being out at sea for too long, so the smart women invented the pancake tube.
Legend 2
It is said that the famous anti-Japanese generals. Qi Jiguang was stationed in the military camp. One night, a soldier suddenly came to report: "It's not good! The Japanese pirates are coming again! "Qi Jiguang was shocked and thought: The brothers haven't eaten yet. It's not an option to go to war hungry. Suddenly, a good idea popped out of Qi Jiguang's mind and asked the brothers to put vegetables in the pancakes. Then, Qi Jiguang followed his own ideas and successfully defeated the Japanese pirates.
Legend 3
< p> Another theory is that the pancake tube was invented by the crazy monk Jigong on the rooftop. When he saw a lot of leftovers from each meal, he would wrap the leftovers in the pancake skin and save them for the next meal. During the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the wheat cake tube was also called "Jigong Burrito" and made its debut as a famous Chinese snack.The wheat cake tube is also called the wheat cake tube. The cake cones are crispy in the mouth, oily but not greasy, and have the feeling of making your mouth water. I learned to make wheat cake cones from my mother since I was a child. Although I am not an expert, I eat them after making them. The taste is quite good. Making wheat cake tubes is very particular, especially making the dough. First, shape the dough into a round shape, then bake the dough on the stove plate. It will take about a few minutes to bake the dough. Whether it's thin or not, it's more difficult. The stuffing can be shredded pork, bean sprouts, radish, etc. You can also add ingredients according to your own taste. If you want it to be crispy, you can wrap it and fry it in a pan. The wheat cake tube is golden and attractive, crispy and pleasant. When eating, spread the wheat cake wrapper flat on a flat surface, use chopsticks to put the side dishes on the wrapper, and roll it into a ballpoint pen tube. In hand, my appetite is greatly stimulated. I take a bite and it is fragrant, fresh, juicy and full of flavor. My mouth is full of the richness of the "mountain" and the deliciousness of the "sea"; I take another bite and the aftertaste is endless, with golden egg shreds. There are fragrant braised pork, green bean sprouts...all kinds of delicacies are available.
It makes you want to eat another after eating one tube. The taste... it's really beyond words, you can't stop.