 In the first volume of "A Székelyföld leírása" (Description of the Szeklerland) from 1868, Balázs Orbán writes about the genesis legend of Udvarhelyszék, which holds that the Szeklers, chased into caves and later blockaded by the Tatars, eventually made the enemy leave by presenting them a huge kürtőskalács made of straw which they held out of the cave to show they had supplies to endure the siege.Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the recipe of the cake was recorded in numerous popular cookbooks.As a result of urbanization at the beginning of the 20th century, kürtőskalács was replaced by newer cakes.