Golden cake, also known as Beijing cake and hawthorn cake, it is made of hawthorn as the main ingredient, accompanied by white sugar and osmanthus flowers. In addition to eating it in pieces, it can also be sprinkled with sugar or mixed with pear shreds, sweet and sour, soft and delicious.
The preparation of the golden cake
raw material
Red fruit 500 g, sugar 350 g, osmanthus paste 5 g, starch 7.5 g.
Preparation and consumption process
1: Wash the red fruits with water, put them in a copper pot, pour in water, cook for 10 minutes on high heat, fish out the red fruits and rub them finely, remove the skin and seeds, and put them in the basin together with osmanthus sauce for later.
2: Pour 150g of water into a copper pot, add sugar, bring to a boil over high heat and simmer for 15 minutes. At the same time, put the starch into another copper pot, pour 50 grams of water and bring to a boil over high heat until the starch dissolves.
3, pour the boiled sugar water into a basin containing red fruits, stir evenly in one direction while hot, then pour in the boiled starch water, and then stir evenly. Then pour into a 7-minute-high rectangular iron mold and spread it flat, covered with a sheet of oil paper. Let cool and cut into 5-minute cubes and place on a plate.
Introduction to Golden Cake
Golden cake began in the Qing Dynasty, originally called hawthorn cake. One day more than a hundred years ago, Empress Dowager Cixi, who was tired of eating the taste of mountains and treasures and seafood, suddenly ordered to eat this substance on a whim to relieve her hunger, and the palace people hurriedly found Zhang Zhang, who was the most famous person in the capital to make hawthorn cakes, overnight. Due to the selection of raw materials, meticulous processing, the hawthorn cake made of ruddy color and golden yellow, Cixi liked it very much after tasting, not only appreciated this smooth and delicate, sweet and sour taste, but also loved this gold that was dedicated to the royal family, so the golden mouth was opened, and the imperial family named it "Golden Cake". After that, the princes and nobles followed suit, so that for a time the supply of golden cakes exceeded demand, and the name shook the city of Beijing.
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