Many foreigners talk about the local pasta of Shandong people, and most of them will say pancakes rolled with green onions. Pancakes made of corn flour are mainly in Yimeng Mountain area. For example, Linyi and Zibo, as well as Qingzhou and Linqu in Weifang. In many places in Weifang, people prefer to eat bread made of wheat flour.
I wonder if it is a unique custom in Weifang to eat cakes and eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day? Peel the boiled egg, roll it into a cake, sprinkle with sesame salt and take a bite. It's delicious. This is childhood food!
This kind of cake is called Lata cake in Weifang, or Lada cake. The so-called sloppy cake does not mean that the cake is sloppy, nor does it mean that the people who make the cake are sloppy. It seems that people who eat cakes are "sloppy". Of course, the sloppy here does not contain derogatory meanings.
There are two layers of sloppy cakes, with a layer of powder in the middle. Weifang people are also called bú cakes. Many people eat, take a bite, and the flour wrapped inside comes out when you are not paying attention, splashing on your face and clothes, making you laugh and cry. Do you call cake eaters "sloppy" or not "sloppy"?
Tomb-Sweeping Day is near, and many Weifang people will make this kind of sloppy cake. I remember living in a bungalow with a yard when I was a child. I like to make muffins as an adult. One person rolls cakes with a rolling pin (a cylindrical wooden stick), and the other person turns cakes with a pancake turning stick (a flat tool made of bamboo chips) on a hammer. Firewood or sawdust was burning under the hammer, and the yard was filled with the unique aroma of bread.