The old lady's cake is a famous Chaoshan flavor cake spread from Qing Dynasty to now. The crust is crisp and mellow, and the filling is soft and sweet. The crust of the old woman's cake is made of lard and flour, and the crust of the old woman's cake is composed of the crust of the oil cake and the pastry, commonly known as the crust of the oil cake. Water-oil skin: Add 4 Liang cooked lard and 5 Liang maltose to 1 catty of flour, add water and knead into a dough with grease. The skin is oily, slippery, soft and thick. Crispy heart is a kind of soft and loose oily dough, which contains one catty of flour and five taels of cooked lard. Then, the water-oil skin and pastry are matched according to the ratio of 3 to 7, and the matched pastry is divided into layers of water-oil pastry with a brittle hammer. The cake stuffing is made of candied wax gourd, fine sugar, sesame seeds, melon seeds, olive seeds, orange cakes and cake powder. , and made into round cakes, or fried or baked in the oven. This kind of cake is called "old woman cake" in Chaoshan area, also called "old woman cake". The shapes of cakes are large and small. The big one is about 24 cm in diameter and the small one is about 2 cm. The origin of the name of this kind of old woman cake is that when Chaoshan people marry, the man should first send the bride price to the woman's house, and the woman should return the bride price to her husband's house, so the woman sends this kind of cake to honor the old people in his family. According to folklore, an old woman prefers this kind of cake and asks her daughter-in-law to buy it for her every day. There is also a legend that this kind of cake was specially made by the wife and given to her husband. There is also a legend that a Chaozhou dim sum chef in the Lotus Teahouse in Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty went back to his hometown to visit relatives and brought many famous dim sum. He wants to treat his wife well. Unexpectedly, after eating it, his wife was very picky: "Your Lotus Teahouse is a famous old shop in Guangzhou, and the snacks you make are just a little bit. It's not as good as the melon horn I fried! " The husband was very unhappy. He thought that you, a village woman, could make delicious food. If you dare to underestimate the things in Guangzhou, he said, "Then try making melon corners!"

The next day, his wife cooked a pot of chopped wax gourd with white sugar powder, took it out to make stuffing when it was half dry and not wet, made it into wax gourd horns, and then fried it in an oil pan. When the husband saw that the fried melon horn was brown and shiny, it tasted crisp and smooth, sweet and delicious, and he couldn't help saying yes. After visiting relatives and friends, the pastry chef asked his wife to make a big bag of melon horns and invited them to Guangzhou to taste them for the masters of Lianxianglou.

The masters of Lotus Teahouse all make snacks. I've never seen any exquisite snacks. I didn't take it seriously at first, but I tasted it out of courtesy. Who knows, they can't help but say it's delicious after eating it. When the boss heard the sound, he rushed over and tasted it. He thought it was a famous cake, and immediately learned that it was made by the pastry chef's wife, so it was called "Chaozhou old woman cake".

Later, the owner of Lianxianglou saw that this Chaozhou old woman cake was so delicious, simple to make and simple in materials, and it would definitely be very popular on the market. After making up his mind, he made Chaozhou old woman cake in Lianxianglou. And let the pastry chef improve, process the materials into fine points, make them round, coat the surface with a layer of duck egg white, and bake them in the oven. The boss also felt that the original name was too vulgar and changed it to "winter velvet crisp"

The old lady's cakes are widely circulated. In Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Southeast Asian countries and regions, where there are hipsters, there are old lady cakes.

1949 During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shanghai Chaozhou Bangbing Store once sent an old woman cake to Mei Lanfang, a master of Beijing Opera. After plum tasting, it is required in the special book "Master of Tea Food". 1982, Mei, the son of Mei Peking Opera, tasted the old woman's cake in Beijing, and then returned it according to the four words written by his father.

Famous shops:

"Yuancheng Chaozhou old woman cake". Before the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), Huang, a native of Mazha Village, Puning County, founded Yuancheng Food Factory and opened Yuanchenghao Food Store in Shanghai. Yuancheng Chaozhou granny cake made by our shop enjoys a high reputation in Shanghai, and it is a good gift for celebrities. Many celebrities have tasted Yuancheng Chaozhou old lady cake, and all of them praised it, wrote inscriptions or presented poems, which made Yuancheng Chaozhou old lady cake more famous.

Besides Mei Lanfang, a master of Peking Opera, presented Chaozhou old lady cake with the nickname of "master of tea and food", Shen, a famous calligrapher, presented it with the title of "crispy and delicious, well-made". Chen Lingxi, an old composer, offered a poem saying, "If you occupy his cheeks, the restaurant will be surprisingly military, but if you like Jia, you will be famous all over the world, just like keeping a refined gentleman." Chaozhou granny cake became famous in Beijing and Shanghai in the 1940s, and it is one of the top cakes in Shanghai.