Peach cake originated in Jiangxi.
It is said that during the Tang and Yuan Dynasties, farmers from Leping, Guixi, Yingtan and other counties around Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province went to work as potters one after another. Due to the busy work at that time, a Leping farmer at that time mixed the flour he brought and directly It is baked on the surface of the kiln. Because he coughs all year round and has the habit of eating peach kernels to relieve coughs, minced peach kernels are added during baking.
Other porcelain workers saw that the dry food made in this way was easy to store and eat when transporting porcelain over long distances, so they followed suit and named it "Tao Su". The later homophony is peach cake.
Food culture:
Origin of palace peach cake: According to legend, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there were two chief ministers in Jiangxi, Xia Yan and Yan Song, one loyal and the other traitorous. Xia Yan, a native of Guixi, He was promoted, but was framed by Yan Song, a native of Yiji, and his head was removed. Some of Xia Yan's descendants fled to Guazhou Village in Shangqing.
Some people passed down the technique of making peach cakes in the palace at the foot of today's Longtou Mountain. They opened a wharf near Beiji Pavilion and started a fruit business, specializing in "palace peach cakes".
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, when visiting relatives and friends during festivals, they would give a package of peach cakes, weighing one pound per package. The round and flat pieces of peach cakes were wrapped into a rectangular shape, one chopstick long and half The root is wide, the four corners are prismatic, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. The packaging is very particular, with three layers inside and outside, the inner layer is made of sun-dried lotus leaves, the second layer is thick straw paper, and then the outside is bound with yellow paper or white paper. Post a print, like today's trademark.
The crispy and sweet peach cake has an alluring aroma, and you can’t get enough of the taste from words!