When I was a child at my grandmother's house, I would often hear the shouts of the master who sold cut cakes in the alleys, "Jiang mi jujube", "cut cake, no Hu (core)er", "freshly made cold cut cake". Whenever I heard this familiar shout, I would tugg on the corner of my grandmother's clothes, open my eyes wide, look at my grandmother and say, "Grandma, I want to eat cut cakes and dates." ”
My grandmother carried me out of the courtyard, only to see the cake cutting master at the mouth of the alley wearing sleeves and pushing a bicycle, and behind the car was a large aluminum plate, and in the aluminum plate was the cake cutting, which was covered with a thick white cloth, like a small quilt. Walking up to him, the master said, "Little friend, do you want to eat it?" Then the master lifted the small quilt and saw two large pieces of cake, the left side was the bean paste cake, the right side was the date cake, and there was a layer of green silk roses on it. I said, "My uncle brought me a piece of jujube cut cake, and then a piece of bean paste, and my grandmother was resistant to bean paste." Master: "The children are good, they know to think of grandma when they eat." Grandma smiled and said, "Master just come together as well." The master dipped the knife in water (to prevent sticking to the knife when cutting the cake) and compared it to the cake cutting, saying, "You can see such a piece, right?" Grandma said, "Yes." Then the master cut the cake, packed the bag, filled it with weight, and sprinkled it with a layer of sugar.
Since I was a child, I have been resistant to eating date cut cakes, especially sprinkled with white sugar, and the white sugar cannot be sprinkled too much, just right. It is soft and sticky to eat, and the granular feeling of white sugar makes it more appetizing to eat, and it is really sweet and fragrant to eat.
Of course, the cake cut cake of bean paste tastes great, the bean paste filling is sweet but not greasy, the taste is delicate, the rice is soft and sticky without sticking to the teeth, sprinkled with some white sugar, it is delicious.
The production of cut cakes pays attention to "three steaming and two mixing", so what is "three steaming and two mixing"?
The cake is steamed three times and stirred twice during the cake cutting process. First soak the rice overnight, then wash and drain the water, lay out the pot to steam, steam well, take it out, pour the right amount of boiling water, stir it well, then steam it again, continue to stir after steaming, stir evenly, steam again, let it cool, and steam it with the steamed dates or the bean paste filling, luo together, compacted.
Tianjin Wei has a song that mentions "jujube cutting cake":
Estimated clothes street, a mile long, fur shop, satin village.
The old clothes cost a few children, and the leather clothes only used eight pieces of ocean.
Rui Xiang xiang, humble and auspicious, are all well-known in the north.
Happy things come to buy good satin, and white things buy birthday clothes.
Bird City to the official silver number, do not come to Bird City do not know,
Cockroaches, grasshoppers, pigeons, birds,
Tea soup, pot, date cut cake,
There are several tea houses in the theater, and the boat stops and runs here.
Let me share the method of making homemade rice date cake at home:
This practice is a home version of the approach and is relatively simpler than the traditional approach.
1. Prepare a bowl of rice (glutinous rice), wash, pour in water and soak overnight.
2. Wash the rice, drain the water, pour it into a dish, spread it flat, open the steamer, add the rice and steam for 30 minutes on high heat.
3. Wash the dates, cut them in half and pit them.
4. Take out the steamed rice, pour in the appropriate amount of boiling water, stir well and spread it out.
5. Put the rice in a steamer and steam for 35 minutes.
6. Prepare the lunch box and put it in the drawer cloth for later.
7. After the rice is steamed, put the rice into the lunch box and lay it flat.
8. Add a layer of dates.
9. Put another layer of rice to pave, put another layer of dates, and then put in a layer of rice to pave.
10. Place it in a steamer, top with a drawer cloth and steam on high heat for 45 minutes.
11. Remove the top and put a heavy object on pressure for 2 hours.
12. Let cool, uncover the drawer cloth, cut into pieces, sprinkle with sugar, and the cake is ready.
Are you, eating cut cakes, adding sugar?