Fagao is a traditional food with glutinous rice as the main material, and it is a popular cake food, which is widely distributed in northern and southern areas. It is fragrant and nutritious, especially suitable for the elderly and children.

Among them, "Longyou Hair Cake" is a non-heritage project, and its production process is unique. In addition, the cakes made in Yueyang and Huizhou have their own characteristics. The ingredients are exquisite, and the finished product is white as jade, with fine pores like needles, fresh and fragrant, sweet but not greasy, waxy but not sticky. Its biggest feature is that it is fermented by adding a proper amount of glutinous rice wine in the production process.

Chinese name

Hair cake

The main raw material

Pure sticky rice, sugar, hair powder or cake seed

Does it contain preservatives

No

Suitable for people

General people

Representing areas

Longyou, Yueyang and Huizhou

Fast

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2. Add self-raising flour and hot milk while it is hot, because fermentation needs a certain temperature. Different from making small pumpkins, making pumpkin cake needs to be mixed into a thinner 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 2 minutes after its volume doubles.

comment: 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.

corn cake

dish name: corn cake

main ingredients: 15g of corn flour, 5g of millet flour, 2g of common flour, 2 dried red dates, 2g of raisins, 4g of sugar, 5g of dried yeast and about 28ML

How to make it:

1. Wash the dried red dates and soak them in warm water.

corn cake

2. Mix corn flour, millet flour and flour with white sugar and dry yeast.

3. Pour in water, and make it into a moderately thick batter.

4. Coat the mold with a thin layer of oil (anti-stick) and put some raisins.

5. Pour the batter half way into the mold and let it ferment in a warm place for about 4 minutes.

6. Just wait until the mold is 9% full.

7. Put some red dates and raisins on the surface, and steam in a steamer for 35-4 minutes.

Love tip:

1. The amount of water is for reference only, and the batter should be moderate and thick. Cold water can be used in summer, and warm water below 4 degrees should be used in other seasons

2. Millet flour can be replaced with corn flour or ordinary flour

3. The total amount of miscellaneous grains should not exceed flour, with a ratio of 1: 1 at most, otherwise the fermentation will be affected, and the taste will be rough

4. If you don't need a mold, it is best to steam it in a steamer, and put the drawer cloth in the cage in advance and adjust it.