Why does Cixi have a soft spot for Wowotou after eating all kinds of delicacies?

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Wowotou is a very common pasta in daily life. The raw materials are mainly corn flour and soybean flour. Wowotou has the function of intestinal peristalsis, but friends with poor digestive ability should not eat more. There is no way to determine the origin of Wowotou at present, but the name has existed since the Ming Dynasty. Wowotou is more common in the north, because southerners like to eat pasta with soft taste. Perhaps many people still don't know that even Empress Dowager Cixi, who has eaten all kinds of delicacies, has a special liking for Wowotou. What's going on here?

With the improvement of living conditions, many people are accustomed to eating big fish and big meat, but pay attention to their health. For example, eat more coarse grains and "scrape oil". Wotou is a coarse grain food that many healthy people like. Of course, after today's improvement, adding a lot of flour and rice can increase gastrointestinal peristalsis and lose weight. However, in ancient times, all steamed buns were made of coarse grains. In the words of old Beijing, "Wowotou is the product of stick noodles and grocery noodles, and it is hard to swallow two bowls of water at a time", so only poor civilians eat this kind of Wowotou. But as a Lafayette Cixi, she has a special preference for this coarse grain. What's the background?

In A.D. 1900, Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, and Cixi and Guangxu fled all the way from the Forbidden City to the northwest. When they fled, they must have "kept everything simple", and Cixi, who was pampered and pampered, would not be exempt from customs. According to unofficial history, when Cixi fled with her entourage, one day on the road, Lafayette suddenly became hungry. But "in the middle of nowhere", the eunuchs were afraid that Eight-Nation Alliance would catch up and do something outrageous to Cixi, so they were also very embarrassed. Cixi, on the other hand, is notoriously eccentric and has no exact diet rules. At that time, all the eunuchs and maids had finished eating, and Cixi was hungry, so it was impossible to make a fire and cook on the road. So the poor family who fled with * * * took a little steamed corn bread. Although followers know that steamed corn is corn and mixed flour, they add a little sugar and other fine seasonings.

Cixi was so hungry that she ate the big bag and said, I have never eaten anything so delicious in the Forbidden City. Afterwards, there was nothing wrong, and Cixi came to the famous "Qiao Family Courtyard". It wasn't long before Eight-Nation Alliance withdrew from Beijing and Cixi returned to the Forbidden City. After returning, Cixi missed the buns she ate on the road and ordered the chef to make the same buns. These chefs are dumbfounded. If they follow the "standard" of the Wowotou that Cixi ate at that time, they will definitely lose their heads. These chefs are all whimsical. They made dough with 40% corn flour, 50% fine fabric and 65,438+00% other fabrics in different proportions.

Then, change the size of the steamed bread to the size of an adult's thumb and coat it with a layer of yellow sweetness. After eating this improved Wowotou, Galeries Lafayette also felt quite satisfied, but of course it can't be compared with the embarrassment when fleeing. Therefore, before the death of 1908, Galeries Lafayette made this kind of improved wowotou almost every month. With the downfall of the Qing Dynasty, the rumor that Cixi loved to eat steamed buns was also known to the people. Everyone scolded Cixi: she insisted on eating these cheap foods instead of eating delicacies, which further deepened Cixi's bad influence in the eyes of the public.

However, many people don't know the background of this. Cixi likes to eat steamed stuffed buns because the chef has long been "stealing the column". The steamed bread eaten by Cixi is similar to today's steamed bread or unleavened cake. They are soft, delicious and sweet. These are the chefs in the Imperial Chef. The way they came up with to save lives not only made Cixi happy, but also completed the task. However, the story spread more and more, and it spread that Cixi was an "old demon queen mother" who liked to eat wowotou. On the contrary, Wowotou became a delicacy and was handed down.