Huai 'an tea cake has been circulated since the Tang Dynasty. Huai 'an tea cake has a long history and unique flavor, and it is one of Huai 'an specialty products. As early as the Warring States period, there were teahouses. Some people call it "thin doughnut cake". Liu Yuxi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, once praised it in a poem: Look for jade with a thin hand, and it is blue, oily and yellow. Sleeping at night in spring has no light dreams, crushing beauty and embracing gold. It can be seen that tea cakes at that time have become people's favorite food. The production of Huai 'an tea cake began in the Tang Dynasty, and its fame began in the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, there was a Yue family in Huai 'an who specialized in making tea cakes, which was once listed as a tribute. Yuejia tea cake has beautiful and peculiar shape and reasonable ingredients. The prickly heat is as thin as thread, as yellow as gold, interlocking and connected with silk. When eaten in the mouth, it is fragrant, crisp, crisp, sweet and slightly salty. People are rushing to buy it, and it is a blessing to buy Yuejia tea. He won the bronze award of Nanyang Persuasion Association and the silver award of Panama World Expo in the second year of Qing Dynasty. 1983 won the provincial famous product certificate. Huai 'an tea cake is made of refined white flour, sesame seeds, refined salt or sugar, twisted into strips and wires, and fried with fragrant oil. No alkali is added in the production, and it is fried in warm oil, which is not easy to deteriorate. Its shapes are fan-shaped, comb-shaped, pagoda-shaped, lotus-shaped, gourd-shaped and chrysanthemum-shaped. It is characterized by fragrance, crispness, crispness, full yellow oil color, crispness and refreshment, rich aroma, fluid production and taste, instant ignition, and melting in water. Huai 'an tea cake is not only a convenient food, but also a nourishing food, which has special curative effect on some diseases. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", it tastes sweet and salty, and it is wet and nontoxic. It has the functions of "inducing diuresis to relieve constipation, moistening intestine to relieve constipation, warming middle warmer and benefiting qi". He also said: use corydalis yanhusuo, Kudiezi, etc. As the end, and take half a dollar to one dollar at a time; Drinking Twist Head (teacup) soup before eating can cure urinary tract obstruction in children. According to legend, Empress Dowager Cixi once suffered from breast tumor, and there is no cure. An Ren Han Da Zhai, the imperial doctor's beach, opened a folk prescription, "Huai 'an sesame oil tea, two pieces of litchi seed, two pieces of rice wine, dipped in * * *; Big quilt. "After Cixi took three stickers, the breast tumor disappeared, and Cixi was very happy. From then on, Huai 'an tea cake won a good reputation in Beijing and became a tribute of the Qing Dynasty. For many years, it has been a custom for women in the Jianghuai Valley to drink tea when they are pregnant and have children. According to the test, drinking tea before delivery has the wonderful effect of relaxing muscles and tendons, promoting blood circulation, relaxing muscles and bones and promoting fertility; Drinking tea after delivery can strengthen the body and is good for health. Therefore, between Jianghuai, whoever gives birth to a child, relatives and friends buy tea cakes for the mother. So far, there is a folk saying: "Don't eat jiaozi on the moon-this is a loss." At present, the most famous is Huai 'an tea cake produced by Gulou Food Factory. Its system was not only handed down by the descendants of Yue family, but also improved by modern science and technology. Shapes are comb-shaped, chrysanthemum-shaped, pagoda-shaped and so on. Comb (length 4 inches, width 1 inch) is the most popular. People often like to give Huai 'an teacups as gifts to relatives and friends. Visitors to Huai also don't forget to bring a few boxes of beautifully decorated, crispy and delicious tea cups as precious souvenirs of their travels. 1965, a leading comrade of Huai' an county went to Beijing for a meeting and specially brought a basket of teacups to Premier Zhou Enlai. The prime minister accepted the kindness of the people in his hometown, but insisted that the comrades of the county party Committee take the gifts back. This incident shows the clean and honest style of the Prime Minister, and also adds a much-told story to Huai 'an Teahouse.