Suichangfa cake
A classic taste that never goes out of style
It is the twilight of the year, the end of the year is approaching, and the taste of the year is getting stronger. There are endless stories to tell, endless styles, and a taste of hometown that people will love. Suichangfa Cake will always be one of the indispensable protagonists in the new year' taste.
Suichangfa cake "cake" and "high" homophonous, meaning "backgammon", a wide variety of cake food, green cakes, sugar cakes, hair cakes, etc. can be tasted in Suichang in the month of La, cakes have naturally become an indispensable part of Suichang's "food customs", and the most popular cake in the New Year's taste is the lees hair cake.
Suichangfa Cake | A taste of the Year, a piece of nostalgia
According to the "Suichang County Chronicle", the suichang cake making technology has a history of more than 500 years. Guests came to the door, and a plate of cakes was placed before the meal, expressing the auspicious blessings of the host. The word "fat" of fa cake indicates people's expectations for the coming year, making fa cake irreplaceable in the New Year's recipes of Suichang people, whether in the past or now.
Hair cake, in addition to the meaning of "high every year", there are also good wishes for "every year hair". Years ago, in the countryside of Suichang, almost every woman would prepare ingredients in advance and get up early to make cakes. In each cake, the thoughts of the elders for the younger generations are kneaded into the family's yearning for reunion.
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To make a hair cake, first choose the best glutinous rice and japonica rice, and soak it in a certain proportion for seven days. The soaked rice water is ground into a fine rice milk for pressing, the rice noodles after squeezing out the water in the rice milk are poured into the basin for kneading cakes, evenly mixed with sugar and lard, and then added to the home-brewed lees, and then put into the steamer basket, but not full.
Boil the water over low heat until it has fermented to a certain extent before heating. The flames of the stove hall whistled and licked the bottom of the pot, the water in the pot popped and sounded, waiting for the steamer to come out of the pot between the stoves, and the whole house was steaming with white mist, feeling a warm melt in this cold winter waxing moon.
After patient waiting, the fluffy and soft hair cake is baked, and finally smeared with foreign red (edible pigment), so that the original simple appearance instantly becomes festive. Cut out a piece of steamed hair cake, the naked eye can see that the middle air hole is thin and dense, and it is sweet and soft and powerful to bite it.
Suichangfa cake is the taste made by people who miss it, a mouthful of sweet glutinous, a gift of acacia.
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