老婆餅

老婆 is wife (老 is old, and 婆 is lady, so it's just like the American use of old lady to mean wife). 餅 is cookie or pastry.

Wife cake is a Cantonese bakery item. Also known as sweetheart cake, it's a round flaky pastry filled with a wintermelon paste.

Origins

There are several stories explaining the name of this pastry, for example an ailing man named it after his wife who sold herself into slavery to pay for his doctor (apparently they didn't have Medicare for All), or less dramatically, a man like this pastry his wife made so much that he named it after her.

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