What's the story about the origin of blind cakes?

Blind cake is one of the four famous cakes in Guangdong. In fact, Bian Xiao has never eaten cake for the blind. But I believe many people have eaten it, especially Cantonese people, and they must have eaten blind cakes. So do you all know the origin of blind cakes? Do you know what the story is? Let's learn about China's food culture and its reasons.

"Blind cakes" and "sesame pancakes" are traditional foods loved by Foshan people with a long history. According to the local records of Foshan, "The bakery in Foshan is the most famous, and the villagers always have to support their relatives and friends from other places." Since the late Qing Dynasty, it has been sold in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao and the Pearl River Delta under the names of "Blind Gong Bing" and "Madong Crispy Skin". 1933 and then exported to Singapore, the United States, Canada and other countries. After 1956, it became a famous product for local export.

According to legend, during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, a blind man named He in Jiao Shan Square, Heyuan Street, Foshan opened a "dry hall" for fortune telling, and women from far and near often brought their children and cried loudly. He's eldest son is very clever. He dried the plate and ground it into powder, mixed it with oil, sugar, peanuts, sesame seeds and other materials, baked it into cakes with charcoal fire and sold it to the children who asked the fortune teller for bait. This kind of cake is sweet, fragrant, loose, high quality and low price, and the number of buyers is increasing day by day, which has been passed down from generation to generation and is well known. Those who go to the office of the blind to buy cakes are called "cakes for the blind". "Dry soup" gradually became "Hutchison Cake House".

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