Yuncao people have always been quite particular about food, so Yuncao's famous names are eaten by many and loved by people, often attracting customers from Wuhu, Nanjing, Wuwei and other places to taste. Yuncao cuisine is famous in the Jiangbei area, which has been passed down for hundreds of years and has endured for a long time.
Jade belt cake
Yuncao people pay attention to food is not tired of fine, especially for pastries, whether in the selection of materials or in the production process are very elaborate, Yuncao's pastries are famous far and wide, especially "Tongtaixiang" and "Hong Yitai" two family pastries, when it comes to pastries, I have to say that Yuncao's famous pastries jade belt cake.
The materials and craftsmanship of jade belt cake are extremely exquisite, and the raw material cake powder must first be soaked in sesame oil, buried in a large vat, and can be taken out and used after a certain period of brewing. The selection of pastry filling is also equally elaborate, selecting fine walnuts, peach kernels, green plums, red silk, osmanthus flowers, green dice, adding sesame oil, mixing and stirring.
After the material is prepared, it enters the production process: first mix the cake powder well, sift it, place it in the basin as the base lining and the upper lid, and then spread the filling between the bottom lining and the upper lid, put it in warm water to heat, heat it for about ten minutes, wait for cooling and take it out, sprinkle the cooked powder on the pastry for heat preservation, and finally slice and package. There are yellow, green, red and other colors in the middle of the jade belt cake, and there are undulating ripples, and the periphery is white, just like the white jade inlaid with beautiful jadeite in the middle, full of fragrance in the street, and the entrance is soft and sweet.
"Jade belt" has the meaning of great auspiciousness, "cake" has the meaning of "step by step", jade belt cake is not only sweet and delicious, but also means beautiful, deeply loved by everyone, best-selling Jiangnan Jiangbei and other places.
Snow dates
Tongtaixiang in addition to the jade belt cake also has a large snow date, the general snow date is made of flour, the taste is not authentic and sticky teeth, with Taixiang's big snow date is different from this, its raw material is the use of glutinous rice fermentation many times.
First soak the glutinous rice in water to ferment, wait for the surface of the water to float a layer of "white ignorance", fish it up, water filter; then soak for the second fermentation, wait until the "white ignorance" appears again, fish, dry, grind into a powder; then add water to form a jujube shape, put it in the frying pan and fry until golden brown. At this point, the delicious snow dates are ready. The jujube has an excellent taste, melts in the mouth, and has the effect of nourishing the spleen and lungs and nourishing the body.
Glutinous rice balls
The glutinous rice dumplings are delicious in shape and delicious in filling, making people endlessly evocative. In particular, the glutinous rice dumplings of the "Tiancheng Lou" tea house are particularly loved by customers, and diners who come to buy glutinous rice dumplings every day are uninterrupted from morning to night.
Glutinous rice dumplings were originally the best skills of Wu Lianggen, a white case chef. The raw materials are selected from the finest glutinous rice, soaked in cold water in the morning, until four or five o'clock in the afternoon, dried until 80% dry and ground into powder, remove the coarse grains, put the remaining fine rice flour on the pot, heat it with a warm fire, knead while heating, add shrimp, diced meat, dried diced, chives, monosodium glutamate and other spices made of filling, knead into a ball, and then roll on the glutinous rice grains soaked in water and put on the steamer basket for steaming.
When it comes out of the cage, the glutinous rice balls are crystal clear, like pearls, so the glutinous rice balls are also called "pearl balls".
Yuncao's jade belt cake, snow dates and glutinous rice balls are the first choice for visiting relatives and friends, and friends who come to Yuncao or live in Yuncao are not quick to "understand" it!
Source: Yuncao Ancient Town