Plum blossom cake is a Wuxi flavorful snack. It uses the finest flour, baking powder and water into a paste, injected into the hot plum blossom mold, put bean paste, fresh meat, lard, rose and other fillings, and then injected into the top syrup, sprinkled with sugar, red and green melon threads, with a hot iron plate over the cake mold baked into. The baked plum blossom cake is golden yellow in color, shaped like a plum blossom, fluffy and delicious, suitable for both young and old. Raw material recipe (to make 100 plum cake, for example):
Top white flour 4 kilograms, 3.5 kilograms of bean paste, 150 grams of sugar, sugar lard 500 grams, 75 grams of red and green silk, 15 grams of alkali, 25 grams of soybean oil. Production method: 1, take 2 kilograms of flour into the barrel, add an equal amount of warm water, mix well with a long-handled iron spoon, let stand for 5-6 hours, and then add 2 kilograms of flour and 3 kilograms of warm water, stir vigorously until the batter is uniform, viscous and no pimples. Dissolve the soda ash and pour it into the bucket and mix it well, and pour it into the copper pot for use.
Also pour soybean oil into the container, add 50 grams of water into the water oil. 2, the mold with the iron cover on the stove with medium heat, with a brush dipped in water oil will be coated with mold holes, take the copper pot will be injected into the mold holes in order to batter (only half a hole), then the mold will be lifted up, slowly rotating, so that the batter is uniformly adhered to the wall of the holes, and then placed on the stove, will be inserted into the holes in the batter scraped to the hole in the four walls.
Then add 35 grams of bean paste and 5 grams of sweetened lard in each hole, then take 15 grams of sugar and sprinkle it evenly in each hole, after which fill the hole with batter, sprinkle about 15 grams of red and green threads on it, and burn it for 2 minutes with the lid on, open the lid and then sprinkle 15 grams of sugar evenly, and then burn it for 3 minutes with the iron lid on to cook it. Open the lid with a spatula to separate the plum blossom cake from the mold, pick up the plate. Plum blossom cake from the Ming Dynasty,
development to the Qing Dynasty when it became the most famous snacks in Jiangnan, according to legend, Emperor Qianlong went to Jiangnan when he saw the plum blossom cake in the shape of a plum blossom, color and lustre is attractive, so the taste, the entrance is sweet but not greasy, soft and crispy, with a lingering aftertaste, more than the palace point, praised, because of the shape of a plum blossom, it is named Plum Blossom Cake, so it is handed down to this day. Delicious love affair catering technology promotion center in the inheritance of the traditional production methods at the same time,
After the addition of small snacks, green and red fruits, pine nuts, colorful rice, etc., so that the taste is more delicious, tender and burnt, and there are more than a dozen ways to prepare bean paste, jam, nuts, and so on, the plum cake and pushed to a new realm, is the snacks in another new selling point. Thyme plum cake is made of flour, bean paste, sugar and other dozen of raw materials by the delicious love affair catering technology promotion center with a special oven baked into the melted sugar caramel, coupled with colorful embellishments,
The most fascinating is to eat that a little tough shell wrapped in the red bean paste (or jam), the concentration of the sweet aroma of the sweetness, the rolling sweetness of the comfort of all the taste buds in the mouth to be released. It is said to have a long history, and was originally a snack served by boat gangs during temple fairs and festivals. The process of making plum blossom cake is very simple, but the technical requirements are very high, mixing the paste, molding, and the fire must be just right.
The special mold required for the production has 19 plum blossom-shaped holes inside. To be stove fire burning red, the first brush will be copper mold holes brushed with oil, and then the thin batter injected into the mold holes, half deep enough, put the bean paste filling, and then add the batter to the mold holes until the mold holes are filled, sprinkled with some red and green threads on the top, melons, cover the iron lid baking.