Pancakes are made of old flour. Add some cake and it will be delicious.

Scones are made of old flour, and some alkaline flour cakes are delicious.

Fermentation with old noodles is sweet.

This kind of Tujia sesame seed cake is a specialty of Enshi, Hubei Province, and its biggest feature is the fermentation of old noodles. The first piece of old noodles is extracted from grain koji and put into dough. Yeast is best for making bread. If you use yeast to make sesame cakes, you will be laughed at by your peers.

In fact, the method of making steamed bread and sesame seed cakes with "old noodles" is very common in the whole north. When baking powder is not so popular, "old noodles" is the most traditional and primitive fermentation method: one piece is pulled from the previous noodle every time and reserved for the next "noodle head". This "endless" "old face" is called differently in different places. In addition to "old noodles", some places are called "noodle fat", some places are called "noodle head" and some places are called "yeast head". The noodles made by "old noodles" are more biting, and there is a sweet fragrance after the entrance.