History of Sweet Wife Cake

Sweet wife cake from the winter melon cake (also called wheat flour cake) development, sweet wife cake main ingredients are sugar winter melon, wheat flour, cake flour, caramel, sesame and other ingredients. Legend has it that during the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty continued to charge the people a variety of complicated taxes, the people were oppressed and plundered more seriously, the country's endless uprisings, one of the most representative of a team is to Zhu Yuanzhang led by the insurgent army, Zhu Yuanzhang's wife, Ma's, is a very smart person, in the early stages of the uprising, because of the war at that time, the food is often not enough, the army must often run around to fight, in order to facilitate the soldiers to carry the soldiers to the battle, and to make it easier for the soldiers to carry the soldiers. Go to war, in order to facilitate the soldiers to carry dry food, so Ma came up with wheat, winter melon and other things that can be eaten and together, ground into powder, made into a cake, distributed to the soldiers, not only easy to carry, but also can be eaten at any time, anywhere, on the marching and fighting has played a great help. Due to such a messy add together things made out of the cake is more difficult to eat, so smart people in this kind of cake on the basis of updating the method, and finally people found with sugar winter melon, wheat flour, cake flour, caramel, sesame and other raw materials to do filling made out of the cake is very tasty, the cake entrance sweet and savory, very good taste, which formed the originator of the sweet wife cake!

Sweet wife cake there is a beautiful legend, there was a loving couple, the daughter-in-law willing to sell her body for the family healing. The husband was not discouraged by the loss of his wife, and worked hard to develop a wonderful flavor of the cake, and eventually sold the cake to earn money to redeem his wife and live happily ever after. The recipe has been passed down to this day and is known as "Wife Cake". I never thought there would be such a touching love story in this little pastry.

After countless years, until the beginning of the last century, the wife cake has been in a single variety, a single production method, until the creation of the Lai Kee Bakery, the wife cake to further expand and develop, after nearly a century of baptism of time, Lai Kee Bakery has turned from a small store into today's famous centuries-old brand, the wife cake has also changed from a single product into the current Lai Kee Bakery has developed from a single product to more than 20 varieties, hundreds of production methods and dozens of different flavors of wife cake, of which the sweet wife cake is the most representative of the wife cake, with the flavor of winter melon and the texture of coconut, which are all very good. Lai Kee Bakery produces "Macao Specialty Sweet Wife Cake" with traditional handmade craftsmanship, ancient secret production, combined with modern advanced production technology, the production of sweet wife cake has become the motherland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Europe and the United States and other countries and regions of the long-established reputation of the special products!

And "sweet wife cake" corresponds to another kind of cake called "salty husband cake", they are slightly different in shape, eat the flavor of a different style. The salty old man cake is mainly filled with pretzel flavor. The "Sweet Wife Cake" has a small shape and delicate flavor, and the grains of sesame seeds leave a sweet taste on the lips after eating, which is really as meticulous and thoughtful as a little woman. The "salty husband cake" shape is slightly larger, the flavor and bread is a bit similar, but a bit like a big man.

Nowadays, there are a lot of places where you can find loose or boxed wives' cakes for sale. However, the fillings of these wives' cakes are made dry (or dried out from being stored for too long), which is of course to prolong the storage period, but the moist and soft texture of the fillings is lost.