Today is the 23rd northern year of the lunar month, the prelude to the Spring Festival has officially begun, the old year is coming to an end, and the new year is coming. Families began to buy New Year's goods and clean their houses, looking forward to the arrival of the New Year and family reunions.
In ancient times, the small year was also called the "Jiaonian Festival", which means the beginning of spring, the turn of the year. The earliest written record of the small year was seen in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cui Ding wrote in the "Four Peoples Moon Order": "La will be renewed tomorrow, called the small year, enter the wine and respect the elder, and repair the monarch." One of the most important customs in the year is the "sacrifice to the god of the stove", which is derived from the ancient people's custom of worshiping fire, reflecting people's dream of "having enough food and clothing". On the day of the New Year, in addition to worshiping the god of the stove, there are also eating stove sugar, cutting window flowers, and cleaning. Today, I would like to recommend a few small delicacies for you.
Soft fragrant date cake
Jujube is known as a sweet health fruit, ginger and jujube are a "match made in heaven", and among the 113 prescriptions in "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", jujube is used with it in 3. Let's take a look at how to make today's health jujube cake.
Ingredients: dates, walnuts, ginger, flour
Method: After steaming, the jujube is beaten into jujube paste, boiling water dissolves brown sugar, adding ginger juice and jujube paste to cool down and then make;: 500 grams of flour add baking powder and yeast, add 300 grams of brown sugar water and jujube paste, knead into the state as shown in the picture; the dough is steamed in the steamer for 20 minutes, and then cover and steam for 40 minutes.
Sesame sauce sugar cakes
It is said that "twenty-three, sugar melon sticky" is of course indispensable on this day of the new year, and today I recommend a snack made of sugar melon - sesame sauce sugar cake.
Ingredients: Sugar melon
Method: Crack the sugar melon, chop the dried fruit (old Beijing mix), roll the mixed noodles into a circle, spread the sesame sauce evenly on the noodles, and sprinkle the sugar melon mix, etc., cut the dough cake, roll it, and pay attention to the technique to roll it to one side, seal and press the dough cake and roll it into a cake shape, and bake it on both sides without oil for three minutes.
Today's New Year, in the days of family reunion, sitting with relatives is the happiest moment.