1. Hair cake is a popular cake food made of glutinous rice as the main material. Its taste is fragrant, its holes are as thin as needles, and it is sweet but not greasy, waxy but not sticky, especially suitable for the elderly and children. Hair cakes are made in most areas of China, among which "Longyou Hair Cake" is an intangible cultural heritage project, and the production process is unique. In addition, hair cakes in Yueyang and Huizhou have their own characteristics, but their * * * similarity is that a proper amount of glutinous rice wine is added to the production process for fermentation. There is an interesting legend about the origin of steamed cakes: It is said that one day, a peasant daughter-in-law accidentally knocked over a bowl of distiller's grains placed on the stove while mixing steamed cakes with flour. Seeing the distiller's grains flowing into rice noodles, the daughter-in-law was so anxious that she wanted to cry, but she dared not tell anyone, for fear of being scolded by her in-laws, so she had to mix the rice noodles stained with distiller's grains and steam them in a steamer. Who knows that due to the fermentation of distiller's grains, this cage cake is particularly soft and delicious, and there is a slight bouquet. As a result, the famous hair cake spread, which is also a beautiful mistake.
Second, third production
The making of hair cake is more particular. First, white glutinous rice should be selected to remove impurities such as sand and stones, and then washed repeatedly with clear water, and then soaked in clear water for 3-6 hours. After the rice grains swell, the wet rice should be filtered and ground into rice slurry. Next, filter the rice slurry to remove particles, add white sugar (or brown sugar) and baking powder, mix well and pour into a special steamer. After the water in the steamer is boiled, put the steamer in, cover the lid and steam for about 40 minutes, then take it out and let it cool, and cut it into small pieces to eat. Hair cakes, which take the word "hair", are generally used as special foods for various etiquette in life, such as birthday, entering the house, wedding, etc. As long as the "happiness" cut from red paper is pasted on the hair cakes, they can be used as auspicious items for wedding gifts. Because its finished products are often mixed with bonus powder and have a huge scale, it is also called red hair cake. Red hair cake takes its word "hair", which is widely used in various ceremonial happy events in life and can be regarded as special food for happy events. In Huizhou, people pay attention to birthday, birth and marriage. Generally, the big cake is cut into small pieces, or as a gift for greeting guests and relatives, or distributed to neighbors. Today, residents in the city are still very particular about farmers in the suburbs. Generally, pure sticky rice, sugar, baking powder or cake seeds are used to make the cake, and it is steamed into a huge scale in a large container. If the steamed cake is very big, it is especially gratifying to the owner.
Third, pumpkin hair cake raw materials: pumpkin, self-raising flour, milk, dried fruit practices: 1. Peel the pumpkin, cut into pieces, cook it, and mash it into a muddy pumpkin hair cake. 2. Add self-raising flour and hot milk while it is hot, because fermentation requires a certain temperature. Unlike making small pumpkins, making pumpkin hair cakes requires a relatively thin pumpkin paste, which requires a certain fluidity; 3. Put the pumpkin paste into a sealed container, leave it at room temperature for 1-3 hours, and steam it for 20 minutes after its volume doubles.
Comments: Pumpkin hair cake tastes very soft and has a special flavor of flour products, which is a good choice for breakfast. A variety of dried fruits, such as medlar, raisins, walnuts, red dates and so on, can also be added to the hair cake according to personal taste.