Low gluten flour or ordinary flour is recommended for home-made spring cakes. Because the crust of spring cake rolling is usually thin, the crust should be crisp outside and tender inside with a sense of hierarchy. Only low gluten flour or ordinary flour can meet this taste requirement.
Spring cakes (pancakes) are pancakes made of flour, usually eaten with cabbage. It is one of the Chinese folk eating customs at the beginning of spring. Eating spring cakes at the beginning of spring has the meaning of welcoming the spring and praying for a bumper harvest.
From the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, eating spring cakes became increasingly popular, and it was recorded that the emperor rewarded spring cakes to officials at the beginning of spring.
Spring cakes are simple in materials, easy to make, flexible and chewy in taste, and can be eaten in many ways, including roll, side dishes, as a staple food, and fried cakes.