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The origin of Wu Dalang sesame seed cake
During the Han and Wei Dynasties, there were many kinds of pasta, such as pancake (baked wheat cake), Hu cake (baked wheat cake), soup cake (sliced soup), cage cake (steamed cake without fermentation in stagnant water), doughnut (fried dough doughnut) and so on, but they were not made of dough.

Since the Jin Dynasty, people gradually mastered the fermentation technology, and steamed cakes appeared. When I arrived in Song Renzong, Renzong's name was Zhao Zhen, which was homophonic with steaming, in order to avoid the word "steaming"-"steamed cakes are called cooking cakes up and down in the imperial palace".

Wu Dalang sells "steamed" kitchen cakes; Steam the kitchen cake. That's steamed bread.

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Since the Jin Dynasty, people have mastered the fermentation technology. It is said that by chance, the restaurant owner saw that the distiller's grains had deteriorated and swelled, slightly sour. He grabbed a handful and stirred it into the noodles to make steamed cakes-only to find that the steamed bread was steaming-and people gradually mastered the fermentation technology.

The appearance of steamed cakes was also in the Jin Dynasty, according to the Book of Jin and Zeng Chuan. The book says: ever "indulge in excess" and "don't eat steamed cakes." -that is, he doesn't eat "flowering steamed bread".

Xiao Zixian, the author of Shu Qi, said in his book: "In the ninth year of Yongping in the Western Jin Dynasty (AD 299), it was stipulated that' cakes' should be used in ancestral temple sacrifices." Fan Yanlu was written by Cheng Dachang in Song Dynasty. Explaining the practice of "making cakes with flour", he said: "When you enter yeast, you can make it loose." The steamed bread here is good, and so is the bread. -is actually Wu Dalang do steamed bread.

Reference materials? Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Dalang makes cakes