Citrus cake, also known as orange cake, kumquat cake, is a quite distinctive food, is a natural food processed with orange peel, no bitter taste in the orange peel, orange red color, does not contain any pigment, delicate taste, has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and suppressing cough, is very popular.
Chaozhou citrus has a long history of cultivation, and the Qingqianlong "Chenghai County Chronicle" contains: "Chaoguo takes citrus as the first product." "Making citrus cakes is time-consuming and laborious, first grinding the oil layer off the surface of the citrus, and then drying it after two sugar boils. A good citrus cake should be a chrysanthemum-shaped orange-yellow color that tastes sweet and has the flavor of a raw fruit. About a carton of fresh citrus uses more than half a carton of white sugar, so the processing of citrus cakes was once an extension of the ancient local sugar industry.

Production steps
1 Peel the oranges one by one, soak in water for three days to remove the citrus oil flavor. Soak the oranges with a knife and cut them on all four sides and flatten them.
2 Place the pressed citrus cakes on top of the steamer and steam, then let the sun down for a day
3 Put the processed citrus cakes in the pot and add rock sugar, I use white sugar, the taste is lighter with rock sugar. Add salt, cover the lid and simmer slowly over low heat for more than an hour