For a foodie like me, delicious glutinous rice cakes include white glutinous rice cakes, water-soaked glutinous rice cakes, sugar cakes, Hakka fat cakes, moxa glutinous rice cakes, dog tongue cakes, and red seal cakes that are made during traditional festivals or family celebrations.

Here I will talk about the practice of red-yin cake that is only available in rural areas when getting married.

1. Mix seven jins of glutinous rice flour and three jins of japonica rice (the rice you usually eat) flour. The glutinous rice cake made with this ratio is soft and the word "hi" on the surface is clear.

If the ratio of flour is reversed to three to seven, the resulting glutinous rice cake will have a hard texture.

2. One pound of flour and half a pound of white sugar. Although sugar and brown sugar are also acceptable, the red cake made will not be as red and beautiful in color.

3. There are two ways to choose red raw materials. One is to buy red powder directly in the market, and the other is to boil water with red and blue grass. 4. When boiling sugar water, use a bowl or a bowl and a half of water.

Boil it over low heat until it becomes sugar water and then add the flower red powder; or use the same amount of red and blue grass water to boil the sugar water (reserve the excess red and blue grass water for later use).

When boiling the sugar water, you need to put some cooking oil, otherwise the glutinous rice cakes will not come out of the cake mold easily; 5. Put the rice noodles in a large pot or basin, slowly add the freshly cooked sugar water, and stir evenly with chopsticks; 6.

Knead the rice flour evenly until it is not sticky to your hands. At this time, the color of the rice flour appears red, but not as bright red as when it is steamed; 7. Divide the rice flour into small balls, wrap some fillings, and then

Press the small ball on the cake mold. At this time, stick a cut rice dumpling leaf on the glutinous rice cake. Invert the cake mold to get a red-seal cake. Tips: Put a fresh-keeping bag on the cake mold.

If the cake mold is dirty, the cake will come out easily.

8. Put the steamer basket into the pot and steam over high heat for about fifteen minutes. Insert a chopstick into the glutinous rice cake. If the glutinous rice cake does not stick to the chopsticks, stop the heat. Take it out and eat.

In my hometown, when giving red-seal cakes to relatives and friends, you have to cut off the leaves and fold them into groups of five before they are fully cooked.