What do you mean by "Trough Cake"?

Also known as "egg cake", a traditional flavor of Tianjin and Beijing pastries. It is made by baking fresh eggs with sugar, flour and spices in a mold. It is a small round cake with a brownish-red top and a yellowish bottom, which is fluffy and fragrant in the mouth. The Qing barnyard class notes ":" Beijing people taboo 'egg' word, the cake is said to groove cake, said the production of cake into the groove also ".

There is an old saying, "less you a stinky chicken still do trough cake." It means that anything less is fine. When two people fight, one says, "I can't do it without me!", and the other says, "I can't do it without you."

The origin of the groove cake

The groove cake is a traditional pastry popular in the north of China, because it is molded and baked in a groove-shaped mold, so it is called "groove cake". The history of the production of the groove cake is very long, and can even be traced back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is rumored that Emperor Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi both loved to eat the groove cake, especially in the morning meal. According to the documents of the Qing Dynasty's Ministry of the Interior, at that time, the palace's pastry room (later merged into the Imperial Household) elaborate groove cake, in addition to the court for consumption, and as a special offering to the ancestors.

Characteristics of the groove cake

The groove cake with simple materials, using fresh eggs, sugar, powder, honey and other natural ingredients baked from the taste of light, pure aroma is not evil, soft and not slippery, not greasy food; cake body loose and not scattered, golden color, shelf life is long.

Zhixing Zhai traditional groove cake

Zhixing Zhai according to the traditional craft of groove cake, specializing in research and development of the old-fashioned cake special oven and related equipment, and according to the ancient ancestral recipes more than seventy years ago, respectively, developed an economic, nutritious, highly nutritious three major categories of categories, more than twenty varieties, perfectly reproduced the groove of the cake the unique flavor of this traditional food.