Light cake is one of the traditional snacks in Fuqing. The main materials and auxiliary materials are flour, yeast, alkali, salt and sesame. The manufacturing method belongs to a baking method.

2, taro

Taro is a very popular snack cake in the market. Its production process is as follows: peeled taro, washed and cut into pieces, steamed and mashed, washed and soaked with rice, then ground into pulp, added with taro, shrimp oil, salt and monosodium glutamate, and then poured out in pieces until solidified.

3. Preserved rice

The rice slurry is measured according to the ratio of rice to glutinous rice of 3: 7 or 4: 6, washed, soaked, mixed, ground into slurry, put into a slurry bag, drained, taken out, added with sugar and yeast, fully fermented, lined with paddle leaves, steamed in a cage, soft and sweet.

4. Rat Quben

Rat Qu got its name because it was mainly based on the herbal rat Qu. In the wild, the leaves of mouse grass are forked, and there are small yellow flowers, which were picked before Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Extended data

Cultural connotation of light cake: Fuqing light cake has profound historical and cultural connotation. In the forty-first year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1562), Qi Jiguang led the troops to Fuqing to pursue the enemy. In order to reduce the cooking time, each battalion is arranged to bake moxibustion with charcoal fire, make round cakes with flour, and open a small hole in the middle, so that soldiers can hang them around their necks with hemp ropes, which is convenient to carry when marching, and also serves as temporary dry food, which greatly enhances the mobility of the team.

Since then, in memory of Qi Jiguang, Fuqing people have copied this kind of round cake, which is called light cake. In 2008, the technology of making light cakes was listed as an intangible cultural heritage protection project in Fuqing City.

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