The specialty of my hometown-Funing Dagao

Teng Rongrong, Class 6 (4) of Tinghu Primary School

"Green hills are closely connected". Whenever I hear this old song, I always think of my hometown-Yancheng. Although there are no rolling mountains and terraced fields here, she has the enviable largest wetland in the East. She is like a bright pearl. And that unique snack. Next, let me show you the infinite charm of my hometown!

The snacks in our city will definitely make your mouth water: Funing cake, seashore sausage, Wu Bai drunk snail, Longgang pear, and so on. It will definitely make everyone memorable! Among them, the most distinctive is Funing big cake.

Funing cake, also known as "Jade Belt Cake", is said to have been tasted by Qianlong, and was named "Tribute Cake" by Yu Kou. The method of Funing cake is very complicated: firstly, high-quality glutinous rice, pure sugar, refined oil and high-grade candied fruit are selected and processed according to their proportions. First, soak the first-class neat glutinous rice in warm water for one day and one night, then pick it up, stir-fry it in a hot pot, sieve it to make it crisp and white, and then crush it into fine powder; Then put it together with washed vegetables or saturated broad beans, and mix it evenly all day and night to make the rice noodles evenly soaked and dry and wet. Sieving twice, then mixing with the white sugar solution stirred into paste, sesame oil, peanut oil, etc., putting in the center the cores made of candied green plums, red and green silk, sweet-scented osmanthus, green fruit, etc., making into rectangular cake blanks, heating and stewing in warm water, stewing in a cage for one night, and then cutting into thin slices for packaging.

Funing big cake has the characteristics of white color, thin slice, moist, soft, affordable and open. Sweet taste and rich nutrition. Because of its unique skills from material selection to production and delicious taste, people rush to buy it every winter season. During the Spring Festival, every family must visit each other, and the host takes out the first food to entertain, which is the big cake. In order to get the meaning of "good luck, climb higher step by step" in the new year. Its varieties have more than twenty flavors. The biggest feature of Funing Big Cake is "as thin as paper, as soft as cotton, as white as snow and as sweet as honey".

after listening to my introduction, are you salivating? go and have a taste!