Yingcheng delicacies include goulu pancakes, sand buns, rice cakes, dry pulp cakes, soda cakes, moon cakes, etc.

1. Goulu pancakes: When making Goulu pancakes, there are claws protruding from the four corners on the surface. Each claw is covered with sesame seeds, baked in the oven, and hooked out of the oven with a hook.

It tastes very burnt, and it is also called "donkey's paw" because it looks like a donkey's foot.

2. Moon cake: "Moon cake" is a traditional flavor food during the Lantern Festival every year.

Yingcheng delicacies include goulu pancakes, sand buns, rice cakes, dry pulp cakes, soda cakes, moon cakes, etc.

1. Goulu pancakes: When making Goulu pancakes, there are claws protruding from the four corners on the surface. Each claw is covered with sesame seeds, baked in the oven, and hooked out of the oven with a hook.

It tastes very burnt, and it is also called "donkey's paw" because it looks like a donkey's foot.

2. Sand buns: Sand buns are a unique pastry snack in Yangtze River Port.

Yu Liangou is the best at making sand buns.

After breaking open the sand buns he made, you can clearly see the layers of crispy cakes inside, as many as five or six layers.

Others use lard to make sand buns, but he uses sesame oil, and he pays special attention to the wind direction when making noodles.

He gets up in the middle of the night every day to knead the noodles, and always observes the wind direction. If the wind is from the south, he will add less water to knead the noodles; if the wind is from the north, he will add more water to knead the noodles, because the south wind rises and the north wind recedes.

After kneading the dough, he spread a layer of sesame oil and kneaded it together again. He repeated this five or six times until the dough was mixed and set aside for later use. A bucket stove was often used to make sand buns. The stove surface was shaped like a "chicken coop stove" for easy storage.

There is a two-story wooden rack next to the pot and stove for easy operation and placement of utensils.

The operation process is: put clean pebbles (less than one inch in diameter) into an iron pot to preheat, add cooking oil from time to time to stir the pebbles, when the pebbles are hot in the pot, scoop out half of them and put them into a spare pot.

3. Rice cake: Rice cake is also a food made from finely chopped rice, but the method is slightly different from Zengren cake. Zengren cake is made by grinding rice into powder, frying it until it is half cooked, and then steaming it, while rice cake needs to be slurried.

Fermentation.

After fermentation, the cake will appear like pearl eyes from top to bottom, and will have the fragrance of rice wine. When steaming, if you need a round shape, put iron rings (generally the size of mooncakes) in the steamer, spread a fine white cloth on top, and put a scoop of it into the steamer.

Pour the hung rice milk into the circle; you can also pour it directly into a steamer covered with fine white cloth, lightly coat it with red and green silk, and steam it in a boiling water pot for 20 minutes until it is cooked.

Cut with lines, most of them are diamond-shaped; rice cakes are white in color, soft and sweet, with delicious pink meat. They are a seasonal snack in summer and autumn.

4. Dry pulp cakes and soda cakes: Dry pulp cakes and soda cakes are also popular snacks.

Liu Jinbao is more famous for making dry rice cakes. His steamer is bigger than others. He uses his hands to pick up the rice milk in the rice bowl and pour it into the pot. He builds four layers in one pot so that the rice milk does not fall.

After setting up, put the lid on the pot and listen to the sound of water in the pot to tell the fireman how to burn firewood.

After putting it on the steam, stop the heat and simmer for a while, then use a spatula to scoop it up. The bottom of the cake will be yellow and the meat will be white, and it will be caramelized and sweet.

5. Mooncake: Mooncake is a traditional snack during the Lantern Festival every year.

A few days before the Lantern Festival every year, people are busy sifting the rice and grinding the fine rice into powder; the young people carry bamboo baskets along the riverside slopes and use small shovels to pick up local vegetables (

That is, shepherd's purse or ground vegetables), used as stuffing. People in Yingcheng commonly call the Lantern Festival celebration "half moon cake", so this kind of thin rice cake is also called "half moon cake".

Which family made rice dumplings and gave them to neighbors, close relatives and friends, wishing each other good luck in the new year.