Ejiao cake is a food made of Ejiao, black sesame, walnut kernel, crystal sugar and yellow wine.
It has the comprehensive health-care effects of nourishing blood, benefiting qi, beauty beauty, relaxing bowels and improving immunity, and is a tonic suitable for all ages with compound health-care value.
During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Ye Henala, the favorite princess of the emperor, suffered from anemia, that is, habitual abortion, which was ineffective after treatment by physicians. She took Ejiao from Deng Shudetang, cured anemia, and was happy when she got sick, which was the later Tongzhi emperor. Emperor Xianfeng was very happy and named the princess Yi Guifei, the later Empress Dowager Cixi. At the same time, Emperor Xianfeng gave Deng Shude a Real Madrid jacket and a passbook.
In July of the 11th year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (186 1), after Dong 'e defeated Zhao Luncheng, the governor of Shandong Province, Tan Tingxiang specially sent the deputy commander to Renshi Runhui Hall to "collect the holy glue, which was more than ten kilograms". After Tan Tingxiang was transferred to assistant minister of the Ministry of War and governor of Huguang, he still often sent relatives to the trainer Runhuitang to buy Ejiao.