The general pronunciation is [zèng] [gāo], retort cake (retort, jing, four sounds, Xi'an natives pronounced jing, do not use the word zeng) cake is Xi'an and Guanzhong region's unique traditional snacks, with glutinous rice, jujubes or jujubes, red beans in the iron retort steaming and become.

The "retort cake" is made of red dates and glutinous rice, steamed in a "retort", hence the name. Cake rice jujube mingling, old and young savory, rich in nutrients, nourishing strong, color and lustre bright and moist, soft and sticky sweet, strong aroma, eaten for a long time do not get tired of, the flavor is unique.

The retort cake is the Guanzhong region, Jinnan region of the flavor snacks. The best quality is steamed in a ceramic cauldron. The raw material of the steamer cake is river rice (traditionally Wuxi glutinous rice), jujube (Lingbao Maotou jujube is the best), and its ratio is 10 kilograms of river rice and 3 kilograms of jujube per pot. There are strict requirements for soaking the rice, loading the steamer, adding water, and firepower.

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The antiquity of the cauldron cake is first shown in its cooking utensils, which are steamed using a cauldron pot evolved from the oldest steaming utensil, the "cauldron," which is also the reason for its name. The best quality comes from the ceramic cauldron.

In addition to the ancient cooking utensils, the cauldron cake evolved from the "dry bait mochi," a food item used by princes during the Western Zhou Dynasty, more than 3,000 years ago in China. Zhou Li - Heavenly Palace" has the fruit of the food of the fruit of the dry bait rice cake records, "rice cake" is in the glutinous rice flour added to the bean paste filling (ancient times called the end of the bean chips) steamed into the cake cake.

Pre-Qin "rice cake" is in the glutinous rice flour with bean paste filling steamed into cakes, and do not put jujube, to the Tang Dynasty to develop into jujube and rice co-steaming. In the Tang Dynasty, Wei Juyuan invited Emperor Zhongzong to a banquet of "burnt ends" in the "crystal dragon and phoenix cake" and today's steamer cake is the same.