Ningbo has such a zhongling Yuxiu, a historic town, under the Siming Mountains, south of the Yao River, yes, yes, it is The Liang Alley of Yuyao.
Speaking of Liang Lang, I believe that everyone's first reaction is Liang Lang big cake. Liang Nong Da Cake is a classic in Ningbo's intangible cultural heritage, and it is also included in "China on the Tip of the Tongue 2". Different from other intangible cultural heritage inheritance difficulties, Liangnong big cake reputation is thunderous, highly sought after by foodies, not to mention Ningbo locals, and even many northerners also have to travel thousands of miles to Liangnong to taste this legendary big cake. As Liang Lang's big cake becomes more and more popular,
The local government has also built a "big cake street", from the beginning to the end there are 30-50, each shop owner only sells this big cake.
However, when I was a child, this big cake was not as easy to sell as it is now. Remember, one year during the summer vacation, I went to Yuyao to play, and Yuyao's most lively downtown street,
There are often grandmothers pushing tricycles selling large cakes. A large cauldron for briquette stoves is placed on a wooden box high and placed behind a tricycle. At first, I didn't know what it was, but I saw that there were children my age buying it, so I rushed over to make a fuss. Only to see the grandmother open the first layer of the wooden box, the heat suddenly came out, smoke, can't see what the contents look like, but smelled a mellow rice fragrance drilled into the tip of the nose, which kind of aroused my interest. The child said, "Grandma, come with a piece of white cake." "Grandma used scissors to cut the rice dumpling leaves,
Oh ~ it turns out that the cake inside is square, snow-white, and there are words printed on it, how can I miss this pastry that I have never eaten before, so I also said to my grandmother: "Grandma, I want a cake." "What color do you want, little friend?" The grandmother asked kindly, I did not know that the cake was still divided into colors, so I asked the grandmother what color it was.
She replied that there were white and black, and I said, "It's better to have one white and one black." What's this called? The child who bought the cake next to me heard my question and said very dismissively: "One look at you is not a local of AraYuyao, even Liang made a big cake, I don't know!" "It turns out that this is called Liang Lang Big Cake Wow." Grandma took a black and a white cake with a plastic bag to give me, I remember correctly, I was using a steel hammer to exchange these two large cakes, just got the steaming big cake, inevitably a little hot, but can not stand the smell of glutinous rice and the fragrance of rice dumplings,
Just take a bite, the cake is soft and non-sticky teeth, delicate and slightly sweet bean paste filling gushes out, this bean paste filling, not granular or solid kind, is wet to eat very smooth. Wow, delicious, I can't care about the hot mouth, I quickly finished eating this big cake with a sigh of relief, and my body felt warm. Before I went home, I went out of my way to the street and bought a drawer of cakes for my grandmother, and brought it back to my grandparents and grandparents. The memory of that bean paste at that time ran through my taste buds, and later, when I heard the name of Liang Lang Da Cake,
It has unexpectedly entered the Ningbo Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Last year, in order to eat authentic Liang Lang cake, I specially drove to Liang Lang. The master who made the big cake told me that in the past, Liang Lang big cake was a necessary item for the betrothed son-in-law to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
At least dozens of boxes to hundreds of boxes, the woman, just share these big cakes to relatives and friends,
One is to say that "the famous flowers have the Lord", and the other is to share the joy. The next year, the woman also wanted to return dozens of hundreds of boxes of Liang Lang big cakes in the south.
The master also told me that the key to whether Liang Langda cake is delicious or not is to look at the quality of raw materials, although there are not many raw materials required, there are only three kinds of rice, beans and sugar, but rice must be sown in a single season, and the big cake made of this rice is glutinous; the beans should be cowpeas in the northeast, so that not only does it look clear, but the taste is also oily; the sugar must be selected from Guangxi, and the bean paste filling made is sweet and not greasy.
Then he began to make Liang Lang big cake, he said that the powder is also very skilled, and judging whether the sum is good or not, the master proudly said that he has been doing it for a long time, as long as he pinches it with his hand, he will know whether it is good or not.
Next, put the reconciled powder into the model, and then sift some dry powder,
Use the tool to dig the holes, each grid must be evenly divided and square, and then put the bean paste filling prepared in advance,
I saw that the master put the bean paste stuffing as if he didn't want money, and put it full. Sift some more powder, cover the filling, flatten,
Print some auspicious molds and divide them into 16 pieces. Finally, the mold was disassembled and put into the steamer basket to steam, and the master said that when steaming, you can't put too much at one time, otherwise it is easy to appear that the top layer of the cake is cooked, and the bottom layer is not ripe. The time should not be too long, the taste will be soft, and vice versa, the taste will be hard. The seemingly simple production process is actually not allowed to be sloppy, and once any of these steps have problems, then the previous efforts will be abandoned, and the taste and taste of the big cake will be greatly reduced. Now in order to cater to consumers,
The big cakes are also made in a variety of colors and flavors.
Between the words,
The big cake was steamed and came out of the cage, and the master flipped the steaming big cake lid with a wet cloth,
Put a sheet of rice dumpling leaves at the bottom of the big cake, so that the beautiful big cake is completed.
Then the master took a piece for me to taste,
After a big bite, the soft glutinous rice noodles are wrapped in sweet and just the right bean paste filling, and the memories of the first time I ate Liang Lang da cake as a child suddenly came back to my heart.
Edit: Some of the images from betty come from the internet