"The day is long under the willow shade locust, and the mirror cake burden is also fragrant." This poem is said to be from the Qing Dynasty, depicting a vivid and interesting human fireworks under the acacia willow, the fragrance of mirror cakes.
Mirror cake is a local traditional snack in Xi'an, it is said that there are mirror cakes in other places in Guanzhong, I don't know which places are specific, in the end it is still less out of the house, less knowledge.
Therefore, since childhood, I only know that Xi'an has mirror cakes.
It is more appropriate to say that mirror cake is a traditional snack than a snack. No matter how "small" the snack, it can always wrap the stomach. Mirror cake, on the other hand, is very small, and it is more suitable to try as a snack.
Traditional mirror cake is made by crushing glutinous rice and steaming it in a delicate wooden cage drawer. The main body of the mirror cake is glutinous rice, in order to enhance the taste and attract customers, often after the basket drawer, you also need to add a variety of jams, rose sauce and other ingredients. The mirror cake with jam added is colorful on the surface and very tempting. The mirror cake with rose sauce added to it has a rich rose flavor and a soft and sweet taste.
The cage drawer of the steamed mirror cake is also very exquisite, two inches wide, one inch deep, and the round has a living bottom, which needs to be made by hand. Between each cage drawer, it can be built up to five or six stories high. In the steam, the sweet and delicious mirror cake lies in each delicate cage drawer, waiting for the moment of baking.
The stall owner always opens the cage drawer on the upper side from time to time, examines it in turn, and carefully looks for the ripe one. After being selected, carefully hold the cage drawer in your hand, and then use your fingers to lift the bottom trap plate, and the white fat mirror cake will stick out its head like an elf.
Sticking bamboo sticks firmly, dipping sesame sugar and other ingredients, it has become a "small mirror" in your and my hands.
No matter what kind of mirror cake, out of the cage drawer, it must be immediately dipped in peanuts, crushed sesame seeds and sugar, so that the final sublimation can be considered to have been completed, and then handed over to the guests.
Such a mirror cake, exquisite in appearance and sweet in taste, can now buy two for ten yuan. Compared with the past, this price has risen a lot.
Those tourists and friends who hold mirror cakes in their hands taste mirror cakes and experience the thick folk traditional food culture of the ancient city of Xi'an.
One by one, the mirror cakes in the hand are like small mirrors, reflecting the pleasant journey and the mood of release.
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