Bee cake was originally an imperial meal. It was introduced to the people by retired imperial chefs during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is a steamed cake and snack made of flour or rice flour, added with sugar, fruit ingredients, etc. Add various fruits, steam them in a cage and cut them into pieces, like a honeycomb. Types of bee cakes include rice bee cake, corn bee cake, millet bee cake, bowl bee cake, chestnut noodle bee cake, etc. Because after this type of cake is broken open, there are many honeycomb-shaped holes in it, so Famous bee cake.
Bee cake tastes no worse than cake. It is less greasy and more nutritious and healthy. It can be used as breakfast and afternoon snacks
Now let’s make delicious millet noodle bee cake. Cake
Ingredients: 500 grams of millet noodles, 250 grams of soybean flour
Accessories: 100 grams of white sugar, 200 grams of red dates, 4 grams of soda, a little green and red silk melon seeds (optional) Omit for decoration)
1. Soak the red dates in cold water, wash and set aside.
2. Put millet noodles, soybean noodles and white sugar into a basin, add soda water (soda must be dissolved with a little water and stir evenly, otherwise it will become bitter), add about 300 grams of warm water and set aside.
3. Wash the cage cloth and lay it out, pour the noodles on the drawer cloth, add red dates, sprinkle green and red silk, melon seeds, and steam them over high heat.
Let cool and cut into diamond-shaped pieces.
Making instructions: Add soda to millet noodles and soybean noodles and let them rise for a while, otherwise the noodles will not rise and become noisy!