Guyuan Gao, also known as Colla Corii Asini Walnut Cake, is a traditional cake-based medicinal food. It has been circulated in China as late as the Tang Dynasty.

Walnuts and Colla Corii Asini made into a paste for consumption, folk is not rare. Thousands of gold from large families, often used as an unusual food in recent times.

The formation of this trend, and Empress Dowager Cixi has a lot to do. The Qing Palace Narrative records that "Empress Dowager Cixi loved to eat walnut and aconite cream to help smooth her skin in old age."

Acacia jelly is divided into: cinnamon cake, rose cake, and solid cake, depending on the ingredients it is put into.

Acacia Gum Solid Cake: Dong'a Colla Corii Asini, sliced red dates, walnuts, black sesame seeds, superb flower carvings, pine nuts, sour date kernel powder, powdered rock sugar, goji berries.

Osmanthus Solid Cake: Dong'a Colla Corii Asini, sliced red dates, walnuts, black sesame seeds, superb flower carving, cinnamon, cinnamon, rock sugar powder, wolfberries.

Rose Solid Cake: Dong'a Colla Corii Asini, sliced red dates, walnuts, black sesame seeds, superb flower carving, rose, pine nuts, rock sugar powder, wolfberries.?

1, soak the Colla Corii Asini slices in Hua Diao wine for more than ten hours, add single crystal rock sugar.

2, walnuts fried, sliced jujubes, goji berries, black sesame seeds and other ready for use.

3, to be thorough melting of Colla Corii Asini tablets simmering hanging flag.

4, the walnut particles, sliced red dates, wolfberries, black sesame seeds, etc. are added to the tuned inside the gum, stirring constantly, and then positive inside 108 ℃ constant temperature heating for 2 hours.

5, cooling, solidification, cut into small pieces.?

"The lead washed away according to the abundance, fish fall lotus leaf beads difficult to stop.

Darkly serving Agaricus refused to say, but said born for the king's face."

This formula is not created by Yang Guifei can not be proved, but this ancient poem does prove that Yang Guifei taking Colla Corii Asini to nourish her face is not false, and the effect is outstanding.

About walnuts "tonifying the kidney through the brain, beneficial to the intelligence", "Compendium of Materia Medica" this article and the Colla Corii Asini implicitly, Colla Corii Asini has the function of nourishing the heart and kidneys, therefore, Zhang Zhongjing "typhoid fever and miscellaneous illnesses," there is a party, called the hot licorice Colla Corii Asini soup, insomnia can be cured.

The most important ingredient in the solid cake is the Chinese medicine national treasure of Colla Corii Asini, but also the most expensive kind of raw material.

Acacia gum cake is based on the Tang Dynasty palace secret formula "beauty cream" formula, development and invention, the formation of modern solid form, easy to carry and eat "Acacia gum cake". Opened a new food style of Colla Corii Asini. It is highly favored by people in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Acai Gum Cake is a food made of Acai Gum, black sesame seeds, walnuts, rock sugar, yellow wine and so on.

It has the comprehensive health care effect of replenishing blood and nourishing qi, beautifying and nourishing face, laxative and improving immunity, and it is a tonic with compound health care value suitable for young and old alike.

In the "Zhouli - Kaogongji - Bowman" is recorded: "Deer glue green and white, horse glue red and white, cattle glue fire red, rat glue black, fish glue bait, rhinoceros glue yellow."

Zheng Xuan note: "are said to be boiled with its skin or with the horn." As early as in the Zhou Dynasty, people on the animal skin glue has a relatively fine research and classification, and at that time, cowhide is not as the first choice of raw materials, donkey skin, deerskin, on the contrary, is highly favored.