"Wild Water Chestnut" Orange Red Cake "Wild Water Chestnut" Orange Red Cake is one of Nanxun's traditional specialties and has a history of more than a hundred years.
"Wild Water Chestnut" was originally the name of a time-honored Nanhuo shop on the East Street of Nanxun Town. It mainly sells orange cakes, Dingsheng cakes, sugar rice cakes, sandwich Chinese chicken cakes, sand (hemp) brittle candies, and pine nut cloud slices.
Cake, walnut cloud cake, dried vegetable sweet dumplings, clear water hawthorn cake, etc. Among them, the orange cake is the most famous.
The method of making "Wild Water Chestnut" Orange Red Cake is: fry the glutinous rice and grind it into powder with a stone mill. Store it for several years before using it. Therefore, the powder has no cascading properties and can prevent swelling.
Fresh roses from Baique and Daochang Mountain areas in Huzhou City are purchased and pickled with white sugar as spices.
Add a kind of Su Shuang dyed from plant "rouge", boil water as pigment; mix fried rice noodles, white sugar powder, boiling water and appropriate amount of sugar rose paste in proportion, crush and knead, cool and cut into pieces.
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It is located in Nanxun, an ancient water town, in the hinterland of the Hangjiahu Plain, bordering Taihu Lake to the north and Wujiang, Jiangsu to the east.
It is 32 kilometers away from Huzhou in the west, 122 kilometers away from Shanghai and 110 kilometers away from Suzhou in the east, and 90 kilometers away from Hangzhou in the south. 318 National Highway and Changhu Shenhang Channel traverse the east and west, and the water and land transportation is convenient.