Although in Guanzhong dialect, the pronunciation of the two is very similar. However, mirror cake is very different from koshiki cake.
As we said, the cake is constantly improved by the Zhou Dynasty's rice bait and powder, which is recognized in the history of gastronomy. And I think mirror cake is more like the most primitive rice bait powder.
Take a look at the explanation of the flour dumplings: rice and rice flour made of food, on the sticky bean crumbs.
In fact, the mirror cake is like this.
The mirror cake is made from glutinous rice flour and steamed in a wood-carved steamer (similar to koshiki), which is white and tender in color, as small as a hand mirror, and as round as a bright moon. After leaving the cage, wear a toothpick, supplemented by bean flour, sugar, sesame seeds and other condiments to eat, the entrance is sticky and sweet.
Making your own crescent is as simple as that
In the old days, selling mirror cakes was generally a burden, one end was a steamer and a cage drawer on the stove, and the other end was rice noodles, various color accessories, hanging a wooden sign, and reading "Eight Treasure Mirror Cake" or the book "Rose Mirror Cake". When someone wants it, they will unload it and start selling it on the spot. As the so-called "the day is long under the willow shade locust, the mirror cake burden is also fragrant". Many of the mirror cake sellers are family heirlooms and have been around for a long time. It is said that Li Taisen, the male god of mirror cakes in Xi'an, has been doing it for thirty years, and his son has inherited the mantle.
Mirror cake male god Lee Tyson
In the memories of many Guanzhong children, there is the beauty of mirror cake, sweet and soft, lips and teeth.
Mirror cake stalls
With the development of the times, there are more and more types of accessories in the ingredients of mirror cake, from the original three or four kinds of accessories (sugar, bean flour, sesame seeds), to the current light dipping sauce there are five or six kinds (rose sauce, hawthorn sauce, strawberry jam, blueberries, cantaloupe, etc.), the pattern is more and more complicated.
The mirror cake in the old days has developed to the present, and there are rose mirror cakes, eight treasure mirror cakes, and even the main ingredient of steaming rice flour is replaced by lotus flour mirror cakes, no need to eat, just look at it should drool.
Wooden old cage drawers
Rose mirror cake
Cartoon painting Mirror cake