Horseshoe powder, also known as water chestnut powder, is processed directly from fresh water chestnuts and is rich in vitamin B and vitamin C, which have the function of clearing heat and detoxifying the body. However, due to the low percentage of starch extracted from the hoof, the horseshoe flour itself is relatively expensive, which made it a food only available to noble guests in ancient times.

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The first thing that comes to mind when talking about horseshoe powder is inevitably horseshoe cake, which is very simple to make.

Materials: 50 grams of water chestnut flour, 300 grams of water, 50 grams of sugar ice chips, fresh water chestnuts

Practice:

1, 50 grams of water chestnut flour mixed with 150 grams of water and then prepare for use, at this time, the slurry is called a raw slurry.

2, 50 grams of rock candy and 150 grams of hot water in the mix, until the rock candy completely melted, and then put on the stove on low heat to boil.

3, remove the boiling sugar water from the fire, quickly spoon a spoonful of raw syrup poured into the sugar water to fully mix, to make a transparent thick cooked syrup.

4. Pour the cooked syrup back into the raw syrup and stir quickly, then you can get a white sticky raw and cooked syrup.

5, and finally the fresh water chestnut into the raw and cooked pulp, poured into the mold on the pot to steam for 30 minutes, out of the pot after cooling off the mold can be eaten.

Thousand layers of red dates and horseshoe cake

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Materials: 50 grams of horseshoe powder, 100 grams of dates, water, 30 grams of sugar

Practice:

1, dates, remove the nucleus, soak for 3 hours, soak the completion of the time. Add about 400 grams of water on the pot to steam for 40 minutes, the red dates thoroughly steamed.

2, steamed only 300 grams of jujube water, divided into 150 grams of two equal parts.

3, the operation of making raw and cooked pulp is the same as the steps of making raw and cooked pulp for horseshoe cake, please refer to the steps above.

4, after the production of raw and cooked pulp, will begin to steam on the pot, each time only a spoonful of amount of steam, each time the steam time for 15 minutes, after steaming a layer of steam and then steam the next layer, and finally get the red dates cake will be with the state of the thousand layers.

Mixed grain horseshoe cake

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Materials: 50 grams of red beans, 50 grams of mung beans, 50 grams of millet, 300 grams of water, 50 grams of horseshoe powder, 50 grams of sugar

Practice:

1, will be red beans, mung beans, millet are soaked for 2 hours, steamed on the pot, steamed and dry water control, only retain the grains of grains.

2, with water, sugar, horseshoe powder to make raw and cooked pulp, the same practice with the above, will not repeat.

3, will be made of raw and cooked pulp into 100 grams of a triple, each of which is added to a grain mix.

4, the last three mixed grains of raw and cooked pulp put on the steamer to steam, each layer of steam 20 minutes of time.