According to legend, as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Hefei produced a kind of solid cake shaped like copper coins, named "money cake", which was delicious. During the Spring Festival, people try to get lucky and distribute it to children who pay New Year greetings. He also said that Zhang Desheng, a native of Hefei, was also Zhu Yuanzhang's navy general when Zhu Yuanzhang opposed the Yuan Dynasty at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. In order to prepare dry food, when the Navy arrived in yuxikou, it sent people to Hefei to make a big "golden money cake" filled with sugar, which was crisp and sweet. The navy men ate the cakes specially made in their hometown, and their morale was greatly boosted. They defeated the Yuan Army and seized the natural barrier of quarrying. This special big "money cake" is called hemp cake, which is used to pay for the water army. Zhu heard the news and called it "victory cake". After Zhang's death, posthumous title Cai Guogong was also called "Cai Guogong Cake". Li Hongzhang, the head of government, returned to Hefei and opened a grocery store called Liu Dongtai. He changed the "victory cake" into hemp cake, paying special attention to the selection of materials and workmanship. Now it is sold in the store, and each person is limited to one, which makes him famous. At the same time, ten sesame cakes were packed into a tube, labeled with "Hefei Liu Dongtai Sesame Cake" and gold lettering on red paper, and 800 tubes were delivered to Li Hongzhang before the Spring Festival. After Li tasted it, he thought it was "delicious, comparable to Su Dian", so he distributed the biscuits to the ministers. Since then, Liu Dongtai's baked wheat cakes have become famous all over the country. The biscuit is shaped like a moon cake, with a golden surface and a pale yellow edge. Sesame seeds on the epidermis are full and evenly distributed. After eating, the skin is soft and sweet, the stuffing is sweet but not greasy, and it has the flavor of orange, plum and other fruit materials.
Hemp cake is an authentic Sichuan dish with a long history. In addition to the characteristics of thin skin, strong heart and delicious taste, the salt-pepper sesame cake also contains pepper and salt, which has become a special flavor of pure sweet, slightly hemp and slightly salty, and is a famous product in Sichuan. Leather: flour11.75kg sesame oil 2.65kg maltose 5.9g soda 65g flour1.25kg flour hemp 2.5kg.
Heart material: salt 0.25 kg pepper 0. 1 kg winter melon sugar 4.75 kg Sichuan sugar 9.5 kg orange cake 1 kg sesame oil 2.5 kg maltose 3.5 kg cooked flour 7 kg honey cherry 0.5 kg honey rose 0.5 kg walnut kernel 1 kg. 1. tanning material: maltose should not be too thick, and the temperature should be around 35℃ ("bifurcation" by hand inspection). After maltose and sesame oil are mixed, the flour below is mixed with soda ash. According to the degree of dryness and wetness of flour, water can be added appropriately, generally around 1 kg. After adding water, stir for 5 ~ 6 minutes, fold it gently by hand, and then peel it.
2. Core-making material: firstly, add all kinds of flowers and fruits, Sichuan sugar, salt and pepper powder, then add sesame oil, and finally add caramel and cooked powder, and stir evenly. It is not advisable to stir more, so as not to make the flowers and fruits paste.
3. Molding: the core is covered according to the proportion of 40% skin and 60% heart. It is molded with a special iron ring, and then it is made of hemp. The beating of the cake surface should be uniform, and the hemp grains should not overlap; Only put a little sesame seeds on the bottom, and you can't stick hemp grains on the waist of the cake. Bake after beating hemp.
4. Baking: use fast fire, the furnace temperature is about 350℃. When entering the furnace, bake the cake face down for about 1 min, turn it over and bake for about 1 min. When the sesame seeds split, you can take it out.