Even stir-fry is rare. Therefore, cooking has just started to develop since the Northern Song Dynasty, and there are not many kinds and quantities. Most of the food is cooked and roasted. Before the Northern Song Dynasty, there was almost no cooking at all. However, the heavy taste of animal oil will lead to the deterioration of food flavor and blackening, so we can't use the existing cakes to refer to dry flour products. This was not the case in ancient times. Those who ate by fire were called sesame cakes, those who boiled in water were called soup cakes, and those who steamed them were called steamed cakes. As mentioned earlier, cooking cakes are steamed, so is cooking cakes steamed? Moreover, according to Hu Zai's "Yu Yin Cong Hua", Guozixue and Taixue provided meals for students, "Cooking cakes in spring and autumn, cold scouring in summer and steamed bread in winter." Here, "cold scouring" refers to cold noodles, while cooking cakes eaten in spring and autumn and steamed bread eaten in winter,
In many courtyard-style restaurants in Shandong, there is a snack of "Wu Dalang cooking cakes". On the plate, there are several small sesame cakes baked with white sesame seeds, which are very crisp. If you break them vertically along the edge of the cakes, you will find that they are hollow inside. In this way, we can eat together and hope that Wu Dalang's luck will last forever, so as to benefit future generations. Therefore, we have a "long-lasting martial arts". The names of later generations mostly contain the word "Lang", especially "Dalang" to show filial piety. When cooking cakes were sold in Wu Dalang, they were even bought on credit. Because they were less literate, they drew symbols when keeping accounts. < P > At first, the ancients didn't say steamed buns and steamed buns, and this kind of pasta was called cakes. What is baked on the fire is called luobing, and what is steamed is called steamed cake. At that time, cakes were two concepts, and now, of course, cakes in ancient times were mostly about cakes. Most of them are baked or baked. However, the cake mentioned by the ancients is not the same as the cake we said, because the word "cake+combination" is not only the sound side, but also the shape side. The meaning of cake is to combine flour and water to make a
fan cage, which is the name of the steamer in the Song Dynasty. In the past, there were no aluminum alloy and stainless steel materials, and fan cages were all woven with bamboo strips. What is bamboo? It means cutting bamboo into thin slices to make it flexible and convenient for weaving various tools.