As the saying goes: there is pumpkin white sugar glutinous rice in the south, there is red jujube red bean mirror cake in the north, pumpkin glutinous rice is often eaten, but the mirror cake I have never seen, in Xi'an City, there is a very famous mirror cake stall, not only in Xi'an, in the country is also famous, one of the best, as long as du Niang search for mirror cake, his family name will come out, many foreign tourists come to see, let's go to see what such a famous mirror cake is like? Why is it so glamorous?
Walk to the boss's mirror cake operation room, this operation room is very small, very simple, there is no clean and bright decoration, surrounded by cement walls, it is in such an environment, but it produces the world's best mirror cake.
There is not only one boss in the operation room, there are several big brothers in the busy work, some also take notes, began to think that the boss invited the worker, the result is not, the boss introduced these are his apprentices, I asked the boss how much tuition? The boss said that he never charged tuition, because he felt that this craft should be passed on, take root and sprout all over the country, and cannot be broken, which should contribute to society! As long as the character is upright and upright in business, he teaches, and I have to say that the boss is very open-minded!
Let's see how his mirror cake is made?,
In fact, the production process looks simple, like the glutinous rice dates and red beans are all stacked together and steamed, but in fact, it is not so easy to do.
The first step, choose a large pot of jujube a large pot of dates, a large jujube to be large, to remove the core, good quality, and then choose a pot of large red beans, and finally choose a good "river rice" is glutinous rice, this rice to choose "Yang Slope" and "Yin Slope", the sun, the temperature difference is large, made to be delicious.
In the second step, the glutinous rice is steamed. Spread the steamed glutinous rice on the bottom of another steamer, cover it with dates, add a thick layer of glutinous rice, lay another layer of red beans, a layer of glutinous rice, lay a layer of dates on the outside of the glutinous rice, and finally lay another layer of dates on top of the dates. After this step is completed, this mirror cake is particularly beautiful, the appearance value is very high, giving people a strong visual impact.
In the third step, the laid out semi-finished product is steamed the second time until everything is steamed soft and rotten. The steamed mirror cake is steaming hot and sweet.
The fourth step is to pour sugar on the steamed mirror cake and shovel the steamed mirror cake to cover the sugar, so that it is completed and can be pushed out to sell.
A mirror cake 5 yuan, eat a bite, really soft glutinous, began to think very sweet, the result is moderate sweetness, really delicious, the layer is particularly rich! There are really a lot of foreigners who come to buy it.
The boss only sells 400 copies a day, pushed out to a pot soon light, the boss said that making mirror cakes is actually very hard, at 6 o'clock in the morning to go out of the stall, he has been doing this for 40 years, his father is also making mirror cakes, plus there are 98 years of history, this is a unique snack in Xi'an.