Lard cake, a taste that can never be found in memory.

Although there are many delicious foods, there must be one that you can miss so far. Whenever I think of it, there is a touch of kindness in the vicissitudes of life. Lard cake, the authentic taste of Suizhou, has a deep memory.

A few days ago, I accidentally walked into the Jiuqu bend of Nanguan Pedestrian Street in Suizhou City. The words "traditional lard cake" on a small food truck attracted me. Behind the car, a middle-aged couple are making lard cakes.

Long time no see, authentic hometown flavor in my memory. So I stepped forward to strike up a conversation. The man spoke with a foreign accent and the woman was a local. A little disappointed, but still interested in watching them busy.

Lard cake is an authentic snack in Suizhou. I remember when I was a child, I stood at the food stall with my family's twenty cents and watched the master make cakes. It's called lard cake. Of course, there is lard on the surface, lard residue, chopped green onion and sauce. Making lard cake is a time-consuming job. I watched the master hammer the dough, rolling out many layers of dough, rolling chopped green onion, wrapping lard residue and rolling it into cakes. Fry, scorch and bake in the oven until golden brown.

The two most important things are lard residue and chopped green onion. Don't practice too hard when refining lard residue, of course you have to chop it.

Unique skill, it is this pot of secret ghee. This is the ultimate weapon of the master of each family. The lard cake is crispy and delicious, thanks to this basin of ghee.

Making lard cake is a kung fu job. I remember when I was a child, there were many people who cooked this snack in Chengguan Town, Sui County, and many of them were husband and wife files. It takes time and effort to make this thing, and the cost is small and the profit is thin. Slowly, fewer and fewer people do it.

The cake is baked and golden yellow. I bought one for two yuan. Eat the lard cake while it is hot. If it is a little cooler, the taste will be much worse. I took a bite, and the smell of lard residue and chopped green onion was intertwined. The cake is crisp and delicious. But vaguely, I can't say why, it doesn't seem to taste like it did decades ago.

I know that the environment has changed and the taste has changed. After all, for decades, when I was a child, I didn't have enough food and clothing, but now I have enough to eat. How can authentic snacks capture the tastes of modern people? No wonder the traditional lard cake stalls almost disappeared in Suizhou.

I really miss the vague taste of the past that remains in the depths of my memory, the mouthful of oil; Take another bite, full of fragrance; One more bite and the cake will be crisp, and you have to take it with your other hand; It's still a little hot, and my mouth is sizzling. After eating, my hand is full of oil and I want to eat another one. Unfortunately, they disappeared quietly, disappeared into the invisible, nowhere to be found. ......