plum blossom cake is. Suzhou snacks. Tradition. The invention that came down was a long time ago. Attractive color, sweet but not greasy, soft and crisp, and endless aftertaste. While inheriting the traditional production method, plum blossom cake is also added with small dumplings, green red fruits, pine nuts, etc., which makes it more delicious and tender outside. Plum blossom cake originated in Wuxi, and it is also a famous snack in Jinling and Nanjing.

Plum blossom cake is a snack with Wuxi flavor. It is prepared by mixing the first-class flour, baking powder and water into a slurry, injecting it into a hot plum blossom mold, adding various fillings such as bean paste, fresh meat, diced pork, roses, etc., then injecting the above slurry, sprinkling white sugar and shredded red and green melons, and covering the cake mold with a hot iron plate and baking. Baked plum cake is golden yellow, shaped like plum blossom, soft and delicious, suitable for all ages. Raw material formula (taking making 111 plum blossom cakes as an example):

4 kg of fine white flour, 3.5 kg of red bean paste, 151 g of white sugar, 511 g of diced pork fat, 75 g of red and green silk, 15 g of edible alkali and 25 g of soybean oil. Production method: 1. Put 2kg of flour into a barrel, add the same amount of warm water, stir evenly with a long-handled iron spoon, stand for 5-6 hours, then add 2kg of flour and 3kg of warm water, and stir vigorously until the batter is even and sticky without bumps. Dissolve the edible alkali, pour it into a barrel and mix well, then pour it into a copper pot for later use.

in addition, pour the soybean oil into a container, and add 51g of clear water to make it into water and oil. 2. Put the die together with the iron cover on the furnace and blanch it with medium fire, dip the brush in water and oil to smear the die hole once, take a copper pot and pour the flour paste into the die hole in turn (only half the hole is filled), then lift the die, slowly rotate it to make the flour paste stick to the wall of the hole evenly, then put it on the furnace, insert bamboo pieces into the hole and scrape the flour paste to the four walls of the hole.

Then add 35g of red bean paste and 5g of diced pork with sugar into each hole, then evenly sprinkle 15g of white sugar into each hole, then fill the hole with flour paste, sprinkle about 15g of red and green silk, cover and burn for 2 minutes, cover and evenly sprinkle 15g of white sugar, cover with iron cover and burn for 3 minutes. Open the lid and use a shovel to separate the plum blossom cake from the mold, and pick up the plate. Plum blossom cake originated in the Ming Dynasty, and

it became the most famous snack in the south of the Yangtze River when it developed to the Qing Dynasty. According to legend, when Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he saw plum blossom cake, which was attractive in color, pretending to taste, sweet but not greasy in mouth, moderate in softness and crispness, and endless in aftertaste, which was better than the imperial palace. He praised it greatly. Because of its plum blossom shape, he was given the name Plum Blossom Cake, so it has been passed down to this day. Taste of love Catering Technology Promotion Center not only inherited the traditional production methods, but also added

Xiaoyuan Xiao, Qinghongguo, pine nuts and multicolored rice to make it more delicious, with more than a dozen preparation methods such as bean paste, jam and nuts, which pushed plum cake to a new level and became another new selling point in snacks at present. Thyme plum cake is made of flour, red bean paste, white sugar and other raw materials baked by taste of love Catering Technology Promotion Center with a special stove. With the burnt fragrance of the melted white sugar and colorful decorations,

the most fascinating thing is to eat the red bean paste (or jam) in the somewhat tough shell package. The concentrated sweet fragrance and hot sweetness comfort all the taste buds to be put in the mouth. It is said that it has a long history. It was originally a snack provided by boatmen to catch up with temple fairs and on holidays. The production process of plum blossom cake is very simple, but the technical requirements are very high, and the mixing, forming and cooking should be just right.

The special mold required for production contains 19 plum blossom holes. When the fire burns red, first oil the copper mold hole with a brush, then inject the thin flour paste into the mold hole, half of which is enough, put in the bean paste, then add the flour paste into the mold hole until the mold hole is filled, sprinkle some red and green silk and melon seeds on it, and cover it with an iron cover to bake.