(1) Poria Cake

Poria Cake, also known as Poria Sandwich Cake, is one of Beijing's nourishing traditional snacks. The cake is made of Poria cream and white flour, with honey and sugar in the middle, and candied pine nuts in the middle, which is like a full moon, as thin as paper, as white as snow, and has a unique flavor. Poria cake on the system of food law, as early as 800 years ago in the Southern Song Dynasty, "RuMenShiKin" in the record: "Poria four two, two two white flour, water for cake, to yellow wax fried." But this wax fried cake is not delicious. In the early Qing Dynasty, some people put forward the "cake is expensive to loose, the cake is beneficial to the thin" idea, so, then the cake is getting thinner and thinner. Because of the strong nourishing plus Cixi love to eat, so the value of a hundred times.

Main ingredients: 200 grams of glutinous rice flour, 200 grams of Poria Auxiliary: 100 grams of sugar

Production: Poria ground into fine powder, plus rice flour, sugar and water to the right amount, adjusted into a paste, with a slight fire in the pan to be spread into a pancake.

Usage: can be eaten regularly or with food.

Effects: Strengthens the spleen and tonifies the middle, calms the heart and tranquilizes the mind. It is suitable for palpitation, shortness of breath, nervousness, insomnia and swelling, loose stools due to Qi deficiency and weakness.

(2) Poria powder

Effects of Poria powder

Poria powder is the powder of the traditional Chinese medicine Poria cocos, which is commonly found in white, light gray, dark gray after brewing. It is flat in nature, sweet and light in flavor, containing triterpenoids, polysaccharides and choline, fat, lecithin, potassium, magnesium and other elements. It has the effect of inducing water and seeping dampness, strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart. Poria can not only significantly improve the body's immune ability, but also can make the blood oxygenated hemoglobin release more oxygen to supply tissue cells. At the same time, it can also make the cell tissues (including skin, mucous membranes, hair, etc.) increased activity, increased vitality, in a healthy state, thus making our skin and hair appear more moisturized, to achieve the effect of beauty.

How to eat Poria Cocos Powder

(1) Poria Cocos Powder

It is best to use cold water to make a paste, soak in water, hot milk.

(2) Cook porridge, or make pasta

Poria Cocos Powder, 30 grams of rice, 7 red dates. Cook the rice first, then put in the jujubes when it boils, then put in the poria powder when the porridge is ready, and stir it well with chopsticks. Eating often has the spleen, qi, tranquility effect, can be used for dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, insomnia and other diseases.

(3) Poria Milk Tea

Poria powder 10 grams, 200 milliliters of milk, the first Poria powder with the right amount of cool water, and then add boiling milk can be.

Usage: Take it every morning in the empty stomach to slow down the aging process, strengthen the spleen and the body.

(4) Coix seed Poria porridge

Coix seed 200g, Poria powder 10g, 200g round-grained rice, chicken breast 50g, dry mushrooms 4. First will be mushrooms Soaked, cut into cubes; chicken breast skin, grease, into the pot to cook 30-40 minutes after fishing, cut into cubes; Poria research powder; and then the Coix Seed with water repeatedly scrubbing, and then soak in hot water for 1 night, drained and add 7 times the water boiled, simmered; round-grained rice with 5 times the water boiled for 1 hour, the two porridge combined, add mushrooms, chicken diced, Poria powder, and then boiled to the thick to the degree. You can add seasoning when serving.

(5) yam Job's tears Poria japonica rice porridge

Poria cocos (research) 30 grams, 30 grams of Job's tears, 50 grams of yam, 100 grams of japonica rice. First round-grained rice, Job's tears, Chinese yam, add the right amount of water, cook until half-cooked, put Poria powder, and evenly cooked, take on an empty stomach.

(6) Poria porridge

Poria powder 15 grams, 100 grams of round-grained rice, pepper, salt, monosodium glutamate a little. ① polished round-grained rice. ② polished round-grained rice, Poria powder into the pot, add the right amount of water, with the martial arts fire boiled and then transferred to the fire stewed until the rice rotten, and then add monosodium glutamate, salt, pepper, stirring is complete. 2 times a day, breakfast and dinner, health spleen and stomach, edema, can be used for senile edema.

(C) White Poria

White Poria, Chinese medicine. Poria is the white part of the herb Poria lumps after cutting off the red Poria, usually for Chinese medicine tablets. Ancient people called Poria as the "Four Seasons Medicine", because it has a very wide range of effects, regardless of the four seasons, it will be paired with a variety of drugs, regardless of the cold, warm, wind, dampness and other diseases, can play its unique effect. Poria is sweet, light, flat, with the function of diuresis and seepage of dampness, benefiting the spleen and stomach, and tranquilizing the mind and spirit. Modern medical research: Poria can enhance the immune function of the body, Poria polysaccharide has obvious anti-tumor and liver protection effect. However, it is contraindicated for those who are weak, cold and slippery, or whose qi is weak and sagging.

(4) Poria Cake

Legend of Poria Cake

Poria Cake, also known as "Fuming Cake", is a traditional handmade food of southern Fujian. There is a legend about its origin. After the Qing Dynasty was established, the Qing soldiers practiced the national oppression of "keeping the hair but not the head" on the majority of the people. Shunzhi five years (1648) on the twenty-sixth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the Qing soldiers captured Tong'an, slaughtered the city for three days, more than 30,000 innocent people were killed. Tongan area people, under the banner of Zheng Chenggong "anti-Qing and Ming", rose up against the Qing soldiers and carry out a long-term "tug-of-war". In order to facilitate large-scale organized anti-Qing activities, the city has a businessman surnamed Li, steamed a cake called "Ming cake", meaning the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, each piece of cake hidden in a piece of paper, written above the joint action time, place and signal. In this way, the basic masses belonging to the "Resisting Ching Dynasty and Restoring Ming Dynasty" organization bought the "Restoring Ming Dynasty Cake" and consciously joined in the fight against the Ching Dynasty. At that time, there was also a rule that children were not allowed to eat "Fuming Cake", mainly because they were afraid of children's ignorance, and eating "Fuming Cake" would easily leak the secrets of the note. Therefore, to this day, Tong'an cattle herding children and children picking up pig manure don't want to eat "Fuming cake" of the proverb circulated. Because the "Fu Ming" and "Poria" dialect phonetically similar. So, from generation to generation, they call "Fu Ming Cake" as "Poria Cake".

How to make Poria Cake

Recipe: Poria 50g, 450g of flour

Preparation:

(1) Dry the Poria, powder it, and mix it with flour.

(2) Poria, flour mix, add baking powder, kneaded with water into a dough fermentation, hair made into a 5 cm square piece of cake.

(3) Poria cake on the cage with a fire atmosphere steamed into.

Diet: 1 time a day, breakfast.

Functions: strengthen the spleen and seepage of dampness, tranquilize the heart and mind. It can be consumed by patients with hypertension who have a deficiency of qi and dampness.

(a) Poria's common diet

Appetizing Soup

Poria 15 grams, 12 grams of Chinese yam, 30 grams of cereal malt, fresh and dry gizzard each 1, boiled soup and drink. Cure pediatric dyspepsia, do not think of food.

Poria tofu

Raw materials: Poria powder 20g, tofu 500g, carrots, mushrooms, appropriate amount (3 servings)

Cooking method: Poria powder and tofu accompanied by a uniform, with salt, cooking wine to taste, and then carrots and mushrooms into the pot and stir-fry until half-cooked, and then add the tofu to the pan. Add the right amount of water, adjust the fire slowly simmer, the best seasoning pot to eat.

The main ingredient in this diet is tofu, so it's not good for people with renal insufficiency and gout.

Poria congee in lotus leaf

Ingredients: 1 lotus leaf (fresh, dry can), Poria 50 grams, 100 grams of round-grained rice or millet, sugar in moderation.

Practice:

1. The lotus leaf decoction soup dregs, Poria, cleaned round-grained rice or millet to join the lotus leaf dregs of the soup;

2. Cooked into a porridge, before the pot with sugar seasoning that is eaten.

This porridge clear heat, tranquilize the mind, stop diarrhea and dysentery, cardiovascular disease, neurasthenia has an adjunctive therapeutic effect.