The Historical Origin of Taian Pancakes

Pancake is a traditional family food for people in Tai 'an area, and it is also a famous local product. When General Feng Yuxiang came to Taishan in 1935, he gave Tai 'an pancakes as a gift to his friends. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, when the Huang Chao Uprising Army was active in Taishan area, the local people had supplied pancakes to the Uprising Army. At present, when Jia Fan's hometown in Yang Lou village, eastern Thailand demolished the ancient blank wall on 1967, he found a bill in the Wanli period of Zhang Mingchao, with the record of "a plate of cigarettes and 23 kilograms of pancakes" on it. Modern Taian pancakes are not only divided into sweet pancakes, sour pancakes and semi-fermented and semi-baked pancakes, but also a series of local brands have been added. According to Mr. Wang Hongze, the author of Taishan Cooking, there are fresh potato pancakes, sweet potato pancakes with corn flour, single burrito, single millet pancake, millet pancake with bean flour and pure sorghum pancake. According to the added auxiliary materials, there are sugar crisp pancakes, vegetable pancakes, honey pancakes, salt and pepper pancakes, sesame salt pancakes, peanut pancakes, persimmon pancakes, walnut pancakes, multi-dimensional pancakes, sesame fruit pancakes and so on. From manual family workshops to semi-mechanized workshops, Taian pancakes have formed a certain mass production capacity. Visitors to Tai 'an are lucky enough to taste Tai 'an pancakes, or there are Tai 'an pancakes on the roadside and on the hotel table, and the popular food diversification is a famous Han snack in Tai 'an, Shandong Province.