Pancakes with dried vegetables

Ingredients: Shaoxing meiganlai, fresh pork, monosodium glutamate, Shaoxing wine, onion white powder, pepper, etc

Finished product features: dry outside and soft inside, rich aroma, full chewiness, aftertaste.

Source of dishes: this special dry dish cake is a combination of Yongkang meat and wheat cake. After improvement, it is made of top-grade plum dried vegetables and streaky pork. It has thin skin and many fillings. It is dry outside and soft inside. It has strong aroma and chewiness, and it is full of gravy. It makes people suck and aftertaste.

Food knowledge

Yongkang dried vegetable cake, also known as Yongkang meat wheat cake, is thick and rough, and its appearance is not good. It's not different from the common pastry in the snack bar. It's just that the stuffing is thicker and the skin is stronger. You can feel the difference when you bite it: the smell of dried vegetables and meat comes to your nose.

For thousands of years, Yongkang, located in the middle of Zhejiang Province, has been famous for exporting "hardware craftsmen". Yongkang meat cake, not only taste good, but also resistant to release, hunger, not easy to deterioration. It is said that as long as the craftsmen of Yongkang do not fall ill and lie down, as long as they have a mouthful of food to eat, no matter in the sun or in the cold, they will carry the hardware shoulder, walk through the door and walk around the world.

Every time before they go out, their wife will get up in the dark on the fifth night, make a dozen of these patties, and then wrap them in cloth, so that the family members can satisfy their hunger on the road. Although men are out in the sun and wind all day long, as soon as they eat meat cakes from their hometown, they will think of their wives and children's hard work of filial piety and housework at home, and their homesickness and love for their wives will become more and more intense. Therefore, the Wanderers call this kind of meat cake "homesickness cake", which has continued to this day.

Yongkang dried vegetable cake is a kind of pie, which is a specialty of Yongkang. Outsiders call it "Yongkang fruit". Yongkang farmers in the harvest season to have the tradition of making meat and wheat cake as a meal.

It is said that Hu Ze, the war minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, liked eating meat and wheat cakes very much. When he came back to his hometown, he always had to eat a few. So far, those who are able to make meat and wheat cakes in Yongkang have the same interest to make some meat and wheat cakes when they come. When they return to their hometown, their relatives in their hometown also like to bake some meat and wheat cakes for their relatives to taste.