Ciba, commonly known as Jing Ciba by Shaanxi people, is a traditional snack in xi, Guanzhong and Jinnan areas. Steamed with glutinous rice, red dates or candied dates; Some will add red beans, raisins and so on. Steam on an iron steamer.

Bitter cake snacks have a long history. Retort is a very old steamer in ancient China, made of pottery, copper, wood and iron. After folk inheritance, the iron retort has been preserved, and the sticky cake steamed with it also has a special flavor.

The history of pancakes

Pancakes have a long history. According to legend, it was introduced from Shaanxi hundreds of years ago. Retort is an ancient cooker with a small hole at the bottom, which can be put on a pot to steam food. Lingbao is commonly known as gold, so retort cakes are also called gold cakes.

Retort pouch's antiquity is first manifested in its cookers. It is a retort steamed from the oldest steamer "retort", which is also the reason for its name. The quality of Taozan steamed is the best.

In addition to ancient cookers, Nan cakes evolved from the special food "Nan bait paste" in China during the Western Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. "Zhou Li Tian Gong" has a record of being humiliated by eating bait powder. "Paste" is a cake steamed by adding bean paste stuffing (called bean dregs in ancient times) to glutinous rice flour.

In the pre-Qin period, the "powder cake" was a cake steamed by adding bean paste to glutinous rice flour, without jujube. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that dates and rice were steamed together. In the Tang Dynasty, the "Crystal Dragon and Phoenix Cake" in the "Shao Wei Banquet" hosted by Wei Juyuan for Emperor Zhongzong came down in one continuous line with today's retort cakes.