Zhou Ying, the heroine in the play, loves the baked rice cake as a dessert. It was a luxury to eat it when she was still wandering the Jianghu with her adoptive father. Later, she married Wu Pin, the master of Wu's East Hospital by chance, and her husband often bought it for her. At this time, the baked rice cake was a symbol of their conjugal love. But the good times didn't last long. Wu Pin was poisoned. Zhou Ying once thought it was because she had fed her husband a poisoned retort cake. Since then, she hasn't seen her eat retort cake again, and retort cake has become her sweet and sad memory.
Therefore, it can be seen that compared with other cuisines in the play, Kugao has a role in promoting the development of the plot in the whole story. What's the taste of retort pouch? Why can the woman be so greedy? You can only understand it if you make it yourself.
In fact, the method of making retort pouch is very simple, and the raw materials are easy to buy, so it can be done at home. The main raw materials are: glutinous rice, red beans and candied dates. In fact, the weight of several raw materials does not need to be as precise as that of making West Point, and it can be adjusted according to your own taste.
Step 1: Soak glutinous rice and red beans in cold water overnight (at least 12 hours). In order to taste softer and glutinous, especially red beans should be soaked for enough time, otherwise they will be harder.
Step 2: Spread a layer of glutinous rice in a container with a little depth, then a layer of candied dates, then a layer of glutinous rice, then a layer of red beans, then a layer of glutinous rice, and finally put the remaining red dates and red beans on the top layer.
Step 3: Inject a small amount of water without flooding the top layer, then seal the plastic wrap, put it in the rice cooker, put a little more water in the rice cooker, and then enter the porridge cooking mode (the rice cooker with pressure is better). It is said that the folk cooking of baked rice cakes needs to be steamed overnight. If you cook it yourself, it should be enough to cook it three times.
This food is said to be a dessert, but it can be seen that there are no sweeteners such as sucrose, rock sugar and condensed milk, and it depends entirely on the sweetness of the ingredients themselves. The sweetness of glutinous rice and red beans is relatively light, so the main sweetness comes from candied dates. Therefore, every bite should contain a candied date, so that it will have enough sweetness. It is also useful to use ordinary dried jujube instead of candied jujube, so it needs to be pitted, and the overall sweetness will be lighter than that of candied jujube.
In fact, the top layer should be covered with candied dates, but when I made it, there was only one bag of candied dates, and the quantity was not enough, so I added some other preserved fruits and red beans, and the overall sweetness was weak. If you want to eat something sweeter, you can add a certain amount of raisins to it, and then sprinkle a layer of powdered sugar or a little condensed milk after cooking.
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