Chifeng sesame seed cake comes from Lingyuan, western Liaoning.
According to the book Zhao Wuda's Style, Chifeng's "baked sesame seeds", like Chifeng across the street, was not originally local snacks in Chifeng, but was first introduced by Wang Ziyun, a native of Lingyuan, western Liaoning, in the 1930s. "Making sesame cakes" was a secret skill at that time, which was related to making a living and economy. Therefore, according to the Jianghu rules, it is also "not passed on to the locals". There were only a dozen shops that made sesame cakes at the beginning. Wang Wenke and Liu Fengxiang of Lingyuan jointly organized it. Later, when they fell out, Wang Wenke and Bai Yongjun, a Hui nationality in this street, made sesame cakes together, but they still "failed to pass on their skills". It was not until Wang Wenke retired from his hometown that this craft was passed down.
The once "baked sesame seed cake" used "cylinder" as "furnace". The specific method is to cut off half of the cylinder, build a one-meter-long stove, and put the cylinder on the stove with a distance of one foot, so it is also called "cylinder furnace sesame seed cake". The characteristic of this method is to make full use of the smoothness, temperature and thickness of the cylinder, and the baked sesame seed cake is not sticky or slippery, and it tastes crisp and tender. However, this baking method is difficult to take into account the heat, because the cylinder is concave, and the temperature is too cold or too hot, and the biscuits will slide down. So later, an improved flat-bottomed hanging iron furnace appeared. The difference is that the furnace body is arched and has a hearth, which is placed on the hanging furnace to "bake in the air". The cook can lift the oven and pull it out by stepping on the long pry bar at any time, which is convenient to operate and easier to master the temperature.
Of course, with the change of time, some changes have taken place in the furnace and fuel. In the past, stoves were mostly red clay, but now they are made of refractory cement. In the past, the fuel was mostly wood, but now it is coal. There are some changes in taste, not too big, but the work efficiency is higher and the cost is lower.