The origin of Fuqing light cake

Fuqing light cake, Fujian snack, with excellent ingredients and special production method. It looks golden and pleasing to the eye, smells fragrant and attractive, and tastes crisp and delicious, far from being comparable to Sichuan sesame cakes and northern sesame cakes. Fujian snack Fuqing light cake takes refined flour as the main raw material, with appropriate amount of salt and alkali, and adds water to knead it into dough, knead it into a cake shape, pat sesame seeds, punch holes in the middle, wake it up a little, put it in a special cake oven baked in advance, light it with newly picked pine needles, and shovel it out after baking until it is crisp. Fuqing light cake, a Fujian snack made by this special method, has a history of 400 years. There is another story about the origin of Fujian snack Fuqing Guangbing. According to legend, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang led troops to Fuqing to pacify the Japanese invaders. In order to attack the enemy in time and annihilate the enemy, the army often does not make a fire to cook, while the soldiers of Qijiajun make their own biscuits as dry food in the north. This kind of sesame cake is the prototype of Fuqing light cake, a Fujian snack. Later, the soldiers found that although sesame seed cake can satisfy hunger, it is easy to get angry when eaten too much, which is difficult to digest and often leads to constipation. Smart Fuqing people add salt to the dough to improve the taste, add alkali to help digestion, pat sesame seeds to moisten the stomach and dry the fire. This kind of improved scones became the favorite dry food of the soldiers of the Qijia Army, and made great contributions to destroying the enemies of the Tian Niu stronghold of the Qijia Army. In memory of Qi Jiguang's recumbent achievement, people call this kind of scones light cakes. This is Fujian snack Fuqing Guangbing again. Fuqing light cakes, Fujian snacks, can only be made in Fuqing. It is said that many talented Fuqing light cake chefs can only bake this crispy Fuqing light cake in Fuqing. Once they left Fuqing to bake in other places, the light cake was not so crispy. Some people say that this is related to the water quality in Fuqing, while others say that only pine needles collected from Fuqing Mountain can be used as fuel to bake such fragrant cakes.