Wooden Hammer Cake


The wooden hammer cake is famous for its crispy, fragrant and refreshing taste. It is made by hand peeling peanuts, sunflower seeds, walnut powder, sesame, osmanthus powder, honey, rock sugar and other raw materials.

Waling at the old street of Fenghuang Ancient City,  you can watch the persons hold a wooden hammer to click up and down, listen to the sounds of "bang bang...". They hold wooden hammers to beat back and forth on the maltose filled with walnuts, peanuts, and sesame seeds. After the dried fruit was crushed and the oil content was fully squeezed, they use a large wooden hammer to push it flat again. Then they cut into cubes after cooling, and you can taste it fresh.

In the process of making wooden hammer crisps, visitors will not only hear the sounds of thumping and drinking from the makers,  the sounds of " bang bang..." with a rhythmic beating, but also smell a bursts of fragrance.It will attract many Chinese and foreign tourists to stop and watch. Sometimes, they couldn't help being curious to pick up a wooden hammer to beat in person,  taste the flavor of crispy sugar at the scene, feel a different kind of taste. The scene to make and sale the wooden hammer cakes has become another vivid cultural tourism landscape in the old street of Fenghuang Ancient City.

Of course, there is a difference between the wooden hammer cake and  the ordinary peanut candy, because the wooden hammer cake has been tempered, and the sugar crystals in it are beaten more thinner, so it is particularly crispy to eat. In fact, it is such a little different  to make the wooden hammer cake be much better  the  other ordinary peanut candy and sesame sugar.

With a history of more than 100 years, the wooden hammer cake is a traditional food handed down from the Qing Dynasty (1645-1911). 
It has not only the characteristics of "fragrant, crisp, sweet", but also  the effects of nourishing blood, conditioning the stomach, enhancing memory, clearing the lungs, appetizing, digesting, anti-aging and so on. Therefore,  it is also one of  the best gifts  for you to buy to send the elderly or give your friends.
 


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