Summer seasonal cakes and drinks necessary for Suzhou to cool off the heat: 1, mint cake.
There are no excessively sweet cakes in summer, only mint cakes, which are cool and cool. The bright green cake is dotted with all kinds of nuts, and the soft and waxy taste combined with the coolness of mint is one of the essential snacks to cool off the summer heat.
2. Mung bean soup
What Suzhou people must drink in summer is mung bean soup. Suzhou mung bean soup is different from the whole country. It is made of red silk, green silk, glutinous rice, wax gourd sugar, candied dates, mint and so on. In Huangmei weather, a bowl of iced mung bean soup is very pleasant to clear away heat and reduce fire.
3. Stir-fried jiaozi
Fried meatballs are one of the seasonal delicacies in Suzhou. It is made of steamed glutinous rice and glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in fried stuffing and poured with marinade. The finished product is white as jade, soft and waxy, fresh and delicious. The special salty cake in summer is fried meat jiaozi.
4. Hai Group
Every May, it is listed in Mudu and Dongshan, Songhua and Wumi Group. Five-meter jiaozi is steamed with Chinese tallow juice and glutinous rice flour, which is very similar to Qing Tuan.
5. Songhua jiaozi
Songhua jiaozi is filled with sesame seeds, red bean paste or sugar water, and a layer of yellow pine flowers is wrapped outside, which makes people have a big appetite. Golden pine pollen is taken from pine flowers, which is not only fragrant and smooth, but also has medicinal value and is regarded as a "fairy medicine" by the people. High-grade Songhua glutinous rice balls are golden in color, with sweet sesame sugar stuffing, tender glutinous rice glutinous rice glutinous rice balls and light yellow pine pollen. They are mixed together, the mouth is sweet and glutinous, and the mouth is full of natural taste.
6. Fairy cake
Fairy cake is made of glutinous rice flour, glutinous rice flour and bean paste, sesame seeds, melon seeds and fruit materials. It tastes soft, sweet and fragrant, and is more suitable for the elderly. For Suzhou people, eating fairy cakes is not only an insistence on traditional culture, but also a memory. However, fairy cakes are only sold for a short period of time in May, and the shortest time is only three to five days, so you must eat one when you meet them.
7.mung bean cake
Mung bean cake is a delicious snack in Suzhou in summer. Mr. Wang Zengqi once said: "Among the mung bean cakes in various places, Jiqingxiang in Kunming to the south and Caizhizhai in Suzhou are the best. Add roses to the oil. " Soviet-style mung bean cake is delicate, fragrant and delicious, and tastes soft, waxy, oily and slightly cold. The delicate and fragrant cotton flavor can be sweet all summer.
8. Baishui Zongzi
Simple white glutinous rice, full of the fragrance of Zongye, dipped in white sugar, is different from ice.
9.lily soup
Summer is the season when lilies are on the market. White and tender lilies are rich in meat and have the effect of replenishing medium coke. Wash the lily, add mung beans and boil, and the simple and delicious lily mung bean soup will be ready.
10, sour plum soup
Good products in summer. If you don't want to bother to make it yourself, then old brands such as Caizhizhai and Yeshouhe all sell sour plum soup. Buy a bottle and mix it with ice water according to your taste. Sweet and sour, summer heat instantly dispersed more than half.
1 1, Lycium barbarum and Auricularia auricula
Delicious dessert. Lycium barbarum has many functions, such as immunomodulation, antioxidation and anti-aging. Put some rock sugar and put it in the refrigerator. It's cool and healthy.
12, water shield silver fish soup
The water shield, one of the "Eight Immortals of Water" in Taihu Lake, is cool, moist and smooth in taste, while the whitebait is one of the "Three Whites of Taihu Lake", which is transparent and petite. The water shield silver fish soup is green and white, clear and fresh, which makes many writers full of praise.