What exactly is the cooking cake that Wu Dalang sells?

As one of the four classical Chinese **, "Water Margin" is loved by many people. Although most people haven't watched the original book, many people have watched the TV series adapted from the book. The plot inside is interlocking and very engaging to the audience.

If you want to say that the most impressive plot in it, it is undoubtedly the story of Wu Dalang, Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian, which has even been talked about by people to this day. However, what we are going to discuss today is not whose fault it is, but.

Maybe everyone hasn't thought about this problem, but I have to admit that "Wu Dalang Baked Cakes" also became popular because of the fire of "Water Margin". For example, in many tourist attractions today, many businesses choose "Wu Dalang Baked Cakes" as the signboard of their stores, because this kind of "century-old store" can completely attract the attention and patronage of customers, but in fact, these merchants sell some common baked cakes or pancakes.

There is a piece of Song Wu's advice to his brother Wu Dalang in the original work of "Water Margin", which probably means that Wu Dalang sells less baked cakes every day, and tries to go out late and return early to prevent "backyard **". The reason why he gave his brother such advice was because he saw Pan Jinlian's nature, but it can also be seen from this sentence that the cooked cakes sold by Wu Dalang are actually steamed, not a kind of food that can be fried, fried, and baked.

It can be inferred from this that cooked cakes are not simple scones, because scones are baked in the oven, and they don't need to be steamed in a cage at all, and pancakes don't need a cage, so the cooked cakes sold by Wu Dalang are not pancakes, so what are the cooked cakes sold by Wu Dalang? In the TV series, the director also did a detailed study of this paragraph. It can be seen from the TV series that the director's research on the original work of "Water Margin" is quite detailed, because he is not selling.

So which of these two is it? I have to say the noodles of the Song Dynasty.

Those that are baked over fire are called "baked cakes", and those that are steamed in a steamer are called "steamed cakes". The cooking cakes sold by Wu Dalang are actually steamed, but they are called cooking cakes because they want to avoid the name of Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen. Wu Dalang sells cooking cakes, many people think that they are baked cakes, but in fact, there is a big difference.

The main ingredient is white flour, which belongs to the noodle category, which is steamed in a cage drawer, and there is no filling, and the characteristics of the cooking cake are a bit like modern steamed buns, steamed buns and other steamed staple foods. Cooking cakes are a very cheap and popular food, easy to carry and very anti-hunger.

Wu Dalang sells the cooking cake is a baked cake, is Luxi's famous food, because in the "Water Margin" and "Golden Bottle Plum" two classical masterpieces are described and famous, Wu Dalang baked cake is golden and crispy, beautiful shape, tempting appetite, is a kind of food with strong local characteristics.

"Cooking cake" is a kind of pasta popular in the Tang and Song dynasties, similar to today's steamed buns, cooking cakes, which were not originally called cooking cakes. The "Miscellaneous Records of the Vegetarian Diet" records: "Whoever uses flour as a food utensil, it is a cake; Therefore, those who burn and eat by fire are called baked cakes; Those who eat water [yuè boil] are called soup cakes; Those who eat it in a steamer are called steamed cakes. ”

Today's steamed buns are not filled, while the buns are filled, which is the main difference between the two. Today's steamed buns and steamed buns are mainly baked or fried, which is the main difference between bread and other flour products.

The so-called baked cakes or cooking cakes are actually today's steamed buns. And steamed buns are actually today's stuffed buns. The steamed buns in the Water Margin era are special buns with very thin dough and a lot of filling, mainly to eat the filling, not the skin.

This question starts from the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it has a lot to do with an emperor.

The cooking cakes sold by Wu Dalang are steamed buns.

Steamed cakes have been a food for a long time, in the Han Dynasty Liu Xi's "Interpretation of the Name" there is a record of steamed cakes, in the "Etymology" of the explanation of steamed cakes is "that is, steamed bread, also called cage cakes", that is to say, steamed cakes are actually even steamed bread that we often eat. It is recorded in the "Qi Dongye Yu" written by the Song Dynasty poet Zhou Mi: "During the time of Xirenzong, the palace concubine said that the first month was the first month, and the steamer of the cake was the cook."

It is said that in the time of Song Renzong, because Renzong's name was Zhao Zhen, Zhen was the same as Zheng and steaming, in order to avoid Renzong's obscurity, the first month was changed to the first month, and the steamed cake was changed to a cooking cake, which shows that the name of the cooking cake began to exist in this period, and its original name should be called "steamed cake".

In ancient times, pasta was collectively referred to as "bread".

In ancient times, there was no such thing as "pasta", and people collectively referred to pasta as "bread". In this regard, Huang Chaoying, a literati of the Song Dynasty, clearly stated in his book "Miscellaneous Records of Susu Food": the pasta made by grilling over fire is called "baked cakes"; Noodles boiled in water are called "soup cakes", and noodles steamed on a cage drawer are called "steamed cakes".

In the Song Dynasty, steamed buns were round, meat-filled pasta; Cooking cakes in the Song Dynasty were flat and round (close to the shape of modern baked cakes) and pure noodles without any filling. It was only after the Yuan Dynasty that the cooking cakes were called "steamed buns" in the north, and the steamed buns with meat filling were called "buns".

Steamed bread.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, round steamed buns were called cooking cakes, and noodles boiled in a pot were called soup cakes or boiled cakes. At that time, steamed buns were stuffed, which is now steamed buns. The mother insect Sun Erniang said that steamed buns are made into snacks, not staple food.

In the Song Dynasty, cooking cakes were the main food of people, and everyone used to call the unfilled ones as cooking cakes, and the stuffed ones as steamed buns, so in fact, the cooking cakes sold by Wu Dalang were now steamed buns. The name of cooking cake was still popular among the people during the Yuan and Ming dynasties. After entering the Ming Dynasty, the name of the cooking cake gradually faded out of the popular colloquial language, and the original solid cooking cake was directly called steamed bread.

Origin

Before Song Renzong became emperor, in the capital city of Bianliang (now Kaifeng City, Henan Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty, the name of "cooking cake" was "steamed cake". "Jing Kang Su Miscellaneous Records" said: "Anyone who uses noodles as tableware is called bread."

Therefore, those who burn and eat by fire are called baked cakes; Those who eat water are called soup cakes; Those who eat it in a steamed basket are called steamed cakes. "Baked cakes are still called baked cakes, also called flatbreads.

At that time, soup cakes were also called boiled cakes, also known as "suo cakes" or "dumplings", and later developed into noodles. After Song Renzong became the emperor, because Song Renzong's name was Zhao Zhen, and the pronunciation of the word "steamed" in the steamed cake was similar to the word "Zhen" in Zhao Zhen.

In Bianliang City at that time, cooking cakes were a popular food, and cooking cakes were sold in the streets and alleys.

Those of us who have watched Water Margin have a very deep impression of a character in it, so it is Wu Dalang In fact, Wu Dalang is very miserable, he was killed by his wife in the end, because his very miserable story also makes us sympathize with him. In fact, Wu Dalang is a very honest person, and he is actually a small businessman. Dalang in ancient times in our country.

The thing they sell is called cooking cake because we don't know what cooking cake is, in fact, cooking cake is a very common thing we eat now, that is, steamed bread, in fact, steamed bread has long been available in ancient China, because people were very fond of eating steamed bread at that time, and it is precisely because of this that people like the cooking cakes sold by Wu Dalang very much.

We also know that in ancient times in our country, rice was not well developed, so many people would not be able to eat enough, of course, people at that time had learned to use wheat this kind of thing, wheat can be ground into flour, used to make steamed buns, so the ancient people in our country are still very smart when there is no rice, they will use wheat flour to make flour to make steamed bread, that is, we now like to eat very much steamed bread.

Therefore, the wisdom of the ancient people is very important, the development of wheat in our country is still relatively early, they were relying on wheat flour to impact, which also reflects their wisdom, although there is no rice and no rice, but they can still be very smart and wise, you can use flour to make steamed bread to eat, and the steamed bread is also very delicious. Therefore, the ancient people of our country were very intelligent, and we should learn from their ingenuity, although they did not have such a thing as rice at that time, they were still able to fill their stomachs.

The cooking cakes that Wu Dalang sold at that time are actually baked cakes now, and they are very big baked cakes.

The cooking cakes sold by Wu Dalang in ancient times are actually the current baked cakes. And now this cake can actually contain a lot of food, such as sugar or pickles.

The cooking cake that Wu Dalang bought, that is, the current baked cake is also called fire, that is, after making the noodles into a circle, put some sesame seeds on the front and back and put them in the stove to bake and eat.

The cooking cake sold by Wu Dalang is now a baked cake, because it was said that there was no such word as burning at that time, so it can only be called a cooking cake.

The cooking cakes that Wu Dalang sold at that time were actually the current pancakes and fruits. Therefore, Wu Dalang is still very miserable, after all, he can't make much money selling pancakes and fruits.

This question starts from the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it has a lot to do with an emperor.

This question starts from the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it has a lot to do with an emperor.

Wu Dalang's cooking cake is a baked cake.

Wu Dalang baked cakes, and Lu Xi was famous for eating. During the Jingyou period of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was called "Cooking Cake" Ant Meng, and later renamed "Wu Dalang Baked Cake", which was famous and ingenious because it was described in the two classical masterpieces of "Water Margin" and "Golden Bottle Plum". Wu Dalang baked cakes are golden and crispy, beautiful in shape, and tempting to appetite.

Over the years, through the continuous innovation and improvement of generations of chefs, it has become a fine workmanship, crispy and delicious, easy to carry, and a good gift for relatives and friends.