Golden autumn is cool, and the sun is coming,
Planting coconuts, drinking chrysanthemum wine, eating chongyang cakes,
They are all traditional customs of Chongyang Festival.
Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake,
Eat soft glutinous, sweet, delicate,
Every bite is the taste of happiness~
Such a good taste, due to the complicated production process, many people will choose to buy ready-made. However, there are always some nostalgic people who like to stick to the most traditional practices of food.
"This cake is very delicious, it tasted like when I was a child." Chen Fujuan, a 70-year-old villager in Caowang Village, Xuhang Town, ate a steamed cake sent by the village committee staff and smiled closely. In a few days, it will be the Chongyang Festival, and recently, the village committee of Caowang Village in Xuhang Town ordered more than 1,300 steamed cakes from a steaming cake expert in the village, and gave them to the elderly in the village to taste before the Chongyang Festival.
After receiving the reservation from the village committee, the Li Ming family, a villager in the West Lane Group of Caowang Village, was busy, and from October 5, they got up at 7 o'clock every morning to steam cakes until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Li Ming said that they mainly make white sugar cake and brown sugar cake, and the ingredients are very rich, including walnuts, dates, raisins and other 6 kinds.
"Now, I only steam cakes every year before chongyang festival and spring festival." If you make it yourself, you can grasp the soft glutinous mouth and sweet oil mouth, and the ingredients are also selected by yourself, so you can eat more at ease. Li Ming said that his cake making skills are family heirlooms, since his grandfather began to steam cakes, so there has been no interruption over the years, so basically every step has remained original.
Xu Xing's steamed cake is famous, but the steamed cake is not exclusive to Xu Xingxing. Recently, The family of Lu Laobo in Lixin Village, Jiading New Town (Malu Town), is also very lively, Lu Laobo is responsible for grinding flour and steaming cakes, his wife Aunt Gan is responsible for peeling dates and loading molds, neighbors also come to help, everyone is busy together...
Let's take a look
How the traditional Chongyang cake was born ↘
01. Grinding powder
Grind glutinous rice and japonica rice into powder,
And sifted into a delicate powder.
02. Peel the dates
The red dates that will be used to make Chongyang cake,
Peel off the kernels of the dates and tear them into flakes.
03、 Pour into the mold
Mix the rice noodles and crushed dates,
Pour into the steamed cake mold.
04、 Steam
Lay a layer of red date slices on the surface of chongyang cake,
On the stove head, steam slowly with boiling water.
05. Let cool
Turn the steamed Chongyang cake upside down out of the mold,
Arrange them one by one, let cool and set aside.
Chongyang eats cake,
There is the meaning of step by step to ascend, Pepsi high.
The sun is coming,
Let's get this delicious bite.~
Correspondents: Min Huichong, Huang Liu
Editors: Tang Min, Xu Yu