Today is
Chongyang Festival on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar
You know the name of Chung Yang Festival
How did it come about?
To put it simply, in the five elements of yin and yang, the singular is yang and the even number is yin. September 9 is the weight of two yang numbers, so it is called heavy yang, also called "heavy nine", "september nine", "nine days" and so on.
We generally refer to the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival as the four traditional festivals in China, and this tradition has been formed since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The Chongyang Festival has been one of the four major festivals as early as the Tang Dynasty. When it comes to seniority, the Chongyang Festival is not small at all.
What are the customs of Chongyang Festival?
mountain climbing
Ascending is one of the most representative folk activities of Chongyang Festival, so Chongyang Festival is also called Ascend Festival. In ancient times, it was believed that mountains were closest to the heavens and could be blessed by the gods. Today, the ascension of the Chongyang Festival provides us with the opportunity to get close to nature.
Chongyang Juju
In addition, the Chongyang Festival is also closely related to the Chrysanthemum culture. When the Chongyang Festival first arose, chrysanthemums already existed as seasonal items. In ancient times, there was also the etiquette of sending chrysanthemums to each other on the Chongyang Festival. Because of this, the Chongyang Festival is also called the Chrysanthemum Festival, and the Chongyang Cake is also called the Chrysanthemum Cake. There is really a little bit of no chrysanthemum and no chongyang meaning.
Eat Chongyang Cake
Chongyang Festival also has the tradition of eating Chongyang cake. Because "cake" is homophonous with "high", people use chongyang cake to pin their wishes on everything. In Shanghai, there are often "long queues" in front of dim sum shops before the Chongyang Festival.
Shanghainese people buy Chongyang cake mainly to honor the elderly and wish them a long and healthy life. Chongyang cakes in different parts of Shanghai also have their own characteristics, Xiaobian has taken stock of a variety of non-heritage rice cakes in Shanghai for everyone, to see if there is any suitable for the taste of your elderly?
Leaf soft cake
In Ye xie town, the southeast gateway of Songjiang, whether it is an ordinary day or a New Year's festival, there is always a gentle rice fragrance floating in the town. It was a well-known pastry in the town, Ye Xie Soft Cake.
Ye Xie soft cake began in the first year of the Ming Dynasty (1573), has been more than 400 years, with the five characteristics of loose, soft, sweet, fragrant and fat. A small square square, embedded in the middle of a layer of fine bean paste, with red and green melon shreds embellished, soft and sweet to eat without being cramped, plus mint is a good summer diet. Folk have a smooth mouth: "Punan's dim sum three treasures, Tinglin steamed bun Zhang Ze dumplings, Ye Xie soft cake scratching".
The raw materials of Ye Xie Soft Cake are local high-quality japonica rice and glutinous rice, and are prepared in proportion. These two kinds of rice should be soaked in cold water for more than 7 days, and the water should be changed every day to make all the fermented components of the rice volatilize.
After drying, it is carefully sieved 3 times with stone mortar spring powder, and then sifted into the steaming grid with a sieve, supplemented by fine cotton sugar and various colors of filling, lotus leaf liner, steamed, the taste is fragrant and cool. Soft cake varieties include sandwich cake, vegetarian cake, lard bean paste cake.
Steamed cake in a bucket of the bridge
"Chongyang does not eat cakes, the old people are not invited", "there is no money, steamed cakes for the festival"... In the Minhang Zhaoqiao area, there has been a tradition of steaming barrel steamed cakes for hundreds of years to wish the family "everything is high".
The "size" of the barrel steamed cake is very large, with a diameter of about 30 centimeters and a thickness of more than 10 centimeters. It costs about six or seven pounds of glutinous rice flour and japonica rice flour to make a whole cake.
Glutinous rice flour and japonica rice flour are mixed with water in an appropriate proportion, and an appropriate amount of sugar or condiments are added into wooden cake buckets, and then continuously steamed over high heat.
Unlike the regular Chongyang cake, the steamed cake is steamed in a special fir barrel. Cakes steamed in wooden barrels are more fragrant and tastier.
In about half an hour, a steaming, white and tender bucket steamed cake is freshly baked. Finally sprinkle a little sugar water to make the whole cake smoother and look better.
The hot barrel steamed cake is soft and sweet in the mouth, and the natural aroma of ingredients is addictive, and each bite of the cake can taste rich nuts and dried fruits, which is sweet and endless.
Chongming cake
New rice is on the market, the weather is getting colder, and a very Chongming cake is also hot on the market, it is - Chongming cake.
Chongming cake has a history of hundreds of years, mainly composed of selected glutinous rice and japonica rice in a certain proportion;
It is also steamed with sugar, dates, preserves, walnuts, pine nuts, melon seeds, red and green preserved fruits, osmanthus flowers, lard, red beans and other accessories.
Chongming cake selection of exquisite materials, reasonable ratio, fine production, moderate sweetness, moderate amount of fruit flesh, steaming science, fragrant soft, sticky and not sticky, has become a famous Chongming special flavor snack food, well-known inside and outside the island.
Generally speaking, Chongming cakes are round, both heavy and thick. It is necessary to cut into two centimeters square and ten centimeters long before eating.
The pattern sutra in the cake shredding method
The way to eat shredded cakes is very diverse. Chongming people will mostly choose to steam in water or cook with porridge rice. The cake is cooked with sake and has a sweet and delicious taste. There are also fried cake shreds, which have a new taste of crispy outside and tender inside.
What is your favorite way to eat?
Method 1: Steam in water
Features: waxy
Place the sliced cake in a plate or small bowl and steam for 7-8 minutes.
Recipe 2: Steam with porridge rice
Features: Simple and convenient
When cooking hot rice or porridge, put the cake in and cook it together. Wait for the rice or porridge to cook and enjoy it directly.
Recipe 3: Shredded sake cake
Features: Sweet and delicious
Put the cake into the pot, three bowls of water, add a little sugar, bring to a boil, add a few spoonfuls of wine, boil again, and serve the bowl.
Add a little goji berries and osmanthus flowers to taste better ~ you can also add an egg after boiling water to warm the heart and stomach.
Recipe 4: Fry in oil
Features: crispy on the outside and sticky on the inside
When the oil is hot, add the shredded cake, fry until golden brown, and enjoy.
Lu Lane White Dragon Cake
In Jinshan Lu Lane, once upon a time, a three-eyed stove head, full of firewood vapor, rice fragrance overflowing... Between the stoves, a steamed white dragon cake is steaming hot and ready to come out, which has become a quite characteristic food in Jinshan.
White Dragon Cake has a history of 100 years. According to records, every year on September 9, every year on september 9, every family in the Jinshan area has the custom of milling flour to make Chongyang cakes for the stove jun. With the change of the times, Chongyang cake has gradually become a pastry for people's major festivals.
The production materials of white dragon cake are made of high-quality glutinous rice, japonica rice and rice, and there are various processes such as mixing rice, soaking rice, grinding powder, mixing sugar water, sieving powder, baked cake and steamed cake;
It also incorporates the favorite flavors of modern people, including bean paste filling, lard sugar filling, rose filling and so on.
The white dragon cake is sticky in the mouth, sweet but not greasy, and the freshly baked cake emits a strong sticky rice aroma to tease your taste buds.
Xu Xing steamed cake
Steamed cake, in the hearts of Jiading people, represents prosperity and rising up. One bite is full of sweet and soft sticky.
Steamed cakes have a long history of hundreds of years in Jiading, and every spring festival, Chongyang, folk steamed cakes. Spring Festival steamed cake, symbolizing reunion, Yu Yi ate the high year; Chongyang steamed cake, also known as "waist cake", is mainly presented to the elders by juniors to show filial piety.
Xuxing steamed cake is made by mixing glutinous rice and japonica rice, and is made in seven major steps, such as soaking rice, panning rice, grinding rice, sieving powder, mixing sugar water, and rubbing flour for steaming.
Due to the reasons for the use of brown sugar and white sugar, it is divided into two categories: brown sugar cake and white sugar cake, of which white sugar cake can be supplemented by walnuts, dates, peanuts, raisins, pine nut meat, winter melon sugar, red and green silk, etc., according to people's tastes and hobbies.
Xuxing steamed cake is sweet and refreshing, and it is suitable for all ages. To this day, it is still an indispensable snack for Jiading people to celebrate the New Year's Festival.
Four Happy Wind Cake
The production technology of Baoshan Luojing "Four Happy Wind Cake" has undergone hundreds of years of practice and development, forming a proper standardized process.
Using local high-quality rice as raw materials, japonica glutinous mixture, after soaking, draining and grinding into powder, mixed with sugary water, sieved into material, loaded into a mold, steamed in the cage drawer.
"Four joys" refers to the joy of newlyweds, births, housewarmings, and birthdays.
Luojing "Four Happy Wind Cake" has different shapes, different sizes, good color, aroma and taste, and has a unique flavor that is sticky but not sticky, refreshing and beautiful, suitable for all ages.
Wang Jia Sha Ben helped make dim sum skills
Wangjia Shaben gang dim sum production technology is based on steaming, boiling, frying, branding and other cooking skills, focusing on inheriting the advantages of traditional craftsmanship, in terms of raw materials, ingredients, cooking skills and other aspects of eclecticism, excellence, self-style, has successively formed the "four famous Dan" and "eight series" as the characteristics of the hundreds of kinds of dim sum.
Wang Jiasha's cake dumplings are made of sticky rice and japonica rice, which are more sticky and thicker. Therefore, the cake dumplings are commonly known as "glutinous rice food".
Muffins
However, the soaking time and ratio of the two kinds of rice are different, the thickness of the grinding particles is different, the production process is different, and the time for basketing and steaming rice is different... A variety of different cake balls are formed.
Yellow muffins
Adhering to the method of sweet and soft Su-style cake dumplings, the cake dumplings in the mouth are "non-sticky hands, non-sticky teeth, non-sticky jaws", and the taste is chewy and sticky.
Small muffins
Qiao Jiazha pastry making skills
Four-color heavy yang cake
The production process of traditional steamed pastries has a long history, and there are dozens of processes in the entire production process from the selection of materials, mainly including raw material selection, powder production, accessory production, leather production, filling production, filling production, finished product production, etc.
Red bean heavy yang cake
Qiao Jiazha's Chongyang Cake is strictly selected from glutinous rice, nuts and other raw materials, and the filling is rich, fresh and non-greasy. The cake is soft and sweet in the mouth, accompanied by a variety of nuts, and the aftertaste is endless after taking a bite.
Two-color heavy sun cake
Red dates, walnuts, glutinous rice, red beans, steamed out steaming... Every year on the ninth day of September, the smell of heavy yang cake wafts from the shop.
On the occasion of Chongyang, remember to send a sweet Chongyang cake to your parents and elders, and wish them all good health and longevity!