What is the sweetheart?
Sweetheart Cake is a Chinese pastry made of crispy, scaly bark and filling winter melon and spices. The cakes are made only by several ingredients, which gives them a sweet but acidic and slightly spicy taste. The legends of the origin of the name of the cake vary throughout China and other countries of the Far East. While small cakes remain popular in China, the popularity of the cake has dropped in other regions in the Far East. Before baking, it is brushed by egg washing and the fine bark literally melts on the tongue when consuming. The filling is made with the body of the winter melon, which is sweet when it is immature but can be bitter when mature. In addition to the winter melon, the recipe requires a powder made of fennel seed, liquorice root, cloves and anise, giving it a convincing and slight mixture of flavors.
One legend associated with The Sweetheart Cake includes a poor couple living in China. The husband's father is seriously ill and the couple exhausts all their resources that try to help him recover. When a father does not improve,The wife sells herself into slavery to pay for her care. My husband is grinded by the loss of his wife and makes small cakes to make enough money to buy it back. He named Little Cakes "Wife Cake" or "Sweetheart Cake".
Another legend includes a famous chef who works in Chinane, who decides to return home to his wife in Chio Chao. Once he made many different dim-Sum at home for his wife and no one pleased her. She preferred the winter melon cake that her mother had created by any dim-Sums he had prepared for her. She made him small cakes to prove they were better, and he loved them so much that he took the recipe back to Chinan. Restaurant calling the chef's chef "wife".
These tasty cakes were traditionally consumed by guests at wedding celebrations in China, but are now consumed as everyday treatment. In China, the cake of Sweetheart is a consciousWash for breakfast, in afternoon tea or just a general snack. Suddenly, small pastries in many countries of the Far East were common, but the consumption disappeared.