Produced in Foshan, Guangdong.

It is said that a blind old man named He Shengchao opened the "Qianlong Hall" divination parlor in Zumiao Street, Foshan. Since there were many people bringing their children to ask for divination and fortune-telling, the children were noisy. Unable to cope, He Shengchao's son He Yuzhai made meat cakes and sold them to calm the children. Therefore, the cake was sold by the blind public house, so it was named blind public cake.

Features: The blind male cake is made of pure ingredients, well-made, delicious and attractive, and durable for storage. The name of the long-term storage of blind male cake flavor: Zhanjiang Weirenhua cake.

The blind man's name is He Shengchao. When he was eight years old, he became blind due to a poor family and no money for medical treatment. He began to learn divination at the age of ten. After completing his studies, he opened the "Qian Qian Tang" Gua Ming Pavilion at the entrance of Jiaoshanfang in this city, which was quite popular among some people at that time. He gave birth to two sons, one is Yinyuan and the other is Foshan blind male cake

Fuxing (named Yuzhai). Among them, Yu Zhai serves his father in the pavilion. Because most of the querents bring children with them, they make noises and cry, which affects the work. Yu Zhai then came up with a method: grind rice coke into rice flour, add sesame seeds and peanuts, and mix it with raw oil to make rice cakes, which are called "meat cakes". (Nowadays, the seal of the blind man's cake still has the word "meat cake"). In this way, it can be sold to people who ask for fortune-telling to feed their children, and it can also make more money to support the family. Due to the ingenious production, sweet fragrance and delicious taste, and the low price, there are more and more buyers. In order to make a profit, neighbors also imitated and sold the meat cakes, but the quality was not as good as the "genuine" ones. People flocked to He Shengchao to buy the meat cakes. People who bought the meat cakes from the blind man called the meat cakes "Blind Man Cake". It was passed down from generation to generation. The cake got its name from this. In feudal society, a blind person was most afraid of others calling him a blind man. Therefore, although the blind man cake has become famous in the market for more than a hundred years, his descendants do not use "blind man cake" as a signboard, but call him a blind man. It is named after Heji meat heart cake. It was not until 1952, after liberation, that our city participated in the South China Materials Exchange Conference and in order to promote Foshan's local products, the brand was officially designated as blind public cake.

The production and sales history of Blind Man Cake

Since Blind Man Cake became famous, the number of buyers has increased, and many of them use it as a good gift. When it was first made, the shape of the cake was larger than a copper dollar, and there was no pork heart. After 1875, in order to keep improving, the pork heart was added. After the establishment of Heji, it has employed 12 to 13 workers for production over the years, but the actual production staff is only seven or eight. The daily output is about 10,000 jins. The peak period was from 1933 to 1936. Overtime production lasted from 15 to 16 hours a day, and the daily output was more than 20,000 jins. Most of the cakes are sold to Dongguan and Shilong areas. Tourists from the province, Hong Kong and Macao who come to Foshan buy more blind man cakes to give back to their relatives and friends. Before the liberation, Hejihao was always sold on a retail basis at the old shop in Heyuanshe. There was no wholesale or agency, and the export quantity was very small. In the year before the Anti-Japanese War, the export was only 4,800 kilograms, and it was finely bound in iron cans ( No meat heart) Entrusted by foreign ships to carry goods for export. The Japanese invaded the south and Foshan fell. They were looted and killed everywhere, and the people were in dire straits. The sales of blind public cakes plummeted, and most of the production workers returned to their hometowns to work in agriculture. The form of the blind cakes has since changed from large to small, and has been changed from selling each to selling in a tube (every ten is a tube). The daily production is 300 to 400 units, but the business is sluggish, and sometimes there is no production for several days. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, production recovered slightly, and workers gradually returned to Foshan from the countryside. However, under the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, production still did not develop greatly. The daily output was only 30,000, which was approximately equivalent to 15,000 large pancakes before the war. , has not yet returned to pre-war production levels.

Production characteristics

The production of blind man cakes is different from ordinary cakes and has its own unique features. Most of the cakes sold on the market are made of flour, and blind man cakes It is made entirely of glutinous rice with sugar, peanuts, sesame seeds, pork, raw oil and other high-quality raw materials. The pork sandwiched in the cake is made in a more exquisite and exquisite way. It is marinated in fine white sugar for several months (at least a few days) before being taken out and prepared. It tastes sweet, crispy and delicious, and is well-known at home and abroad. For more than a hundred years, the production method has been simple, using earthenware pots to hold materials and baking them, and the production was done while sitting, which was extremely inefficient. It was not until the public-private partnership in 1955 that the chopping board system was switched to standing production. Due to improved operating methods, production efficiency has been greatly improved. Currently, product specifications are available in two sizes, the large one has six per tube, and the small one has ten per tube. There are also paper boxes and tin cans for export or gift giving.