The "cake" of the sand cake and the "high" homophony of the step by step, the delicate taste and the good meaning make the Longzhou sand cake a gift for the New Year's Festival, and today I will talk to you about the method of the sand cake.
To make Longzhou sand cake, you must choose longzhou local glutinous rice, use the best oil and sugar and filling, and make the sand cake taste good.
The traditional recipe of Longzhou sand cake:
1. Return sugar. In the first four or five months before the Spring Festival to prepare sugar, first boil the sugar into drip water into essence, then dry, after returning to the sand, put into the tank to pour the right amount of high wine fermentation for 4 months, so that the white sugar becomes a loose back-to-granulated sugar, reducing the hardness and sweetness of the sugar, with a special mellow flavor.
Second, glutinous rice is made into flour. The best glutinous rice is selected and stir-fried until fragrant, and then the glutinous rice is beaten into flour. Glutinous rice must be fried by hand, and under the right heat, the rice can be fried inside and out, and the aroma is attractive.
Third, glutinous rice flour "hit the ground". After the glutinous rice is fried and crushed, it also has to go through a special link, called "beating the ground". ("Gas" is to put glutinous rice flour in a paper bag or cloth bag and put it on the sand or cement floor for at least 1 day, so that the rice noodles can properly return to moisture so that they can be pressed into pieces, which is the key to the taste of cake flour.) ）
Fourth, all kinds of fillings. Sesame seeds are fried fragrantly, sweetened and ground into a filling; other fillings such as lotus paste, red beans, etc. can also be made
Fifth, into the mold molding. The rice noodles and chicken fat and sugar after "beating the ground" are fully stirred, kneaded and blended; the rice noodles are spread into a square wooden box about one finger thick and compacted; and then covered with various flavors of filling; after pressing the inner filling, a layer of rice flour is laid, pressed, and rolled back and forth on the thick wooden board with a heavy round wooden stick, so that the sand cake is not easy to harden.
6. Cut into small pieces. Once set, you can cut the sand cake into chunks with a knife. The sand cake is divided into three layers, the middle layer is a variety of fillings, the upper and lower layers are glutinous rice flour, sweet and soft and strong, holding non-stick hands, the entrance is loose, lips and teeth remain fragrant!