Recipe for making glutinous rice cake:

1. Steam the soaked glutinous rice (about a pound), cover it with high heat for six minutes, then turn to medium heat and wait another fifteen minutes until it's done.

2． While hot, put the rice in a clean cloth and mash it into a puree.

3. Find a flat plate, wooden frame or something, pour half of the rice into it, press it flat with your hands, then spread a layer of bean paste (about half a catty), then pour the remaining rice on the bean paste, and press it down with your hands. flat.

4. Let cool, cut into pieces, and that’s it.

Cold cakes are also a festive delicacy. In the northern Shanxi, Shaanxi, and western Inner Mongolia, there is a custom of eating cold cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. It is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival is now a national statutory holiday.

On May 20, 2006, this folk custom was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. The Dragon Boat Festival began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China and has a history of more than 2,000 years. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duan Wu", "Duan Yang", etc. Folk activities on this day include eating rice dumplings, eating cold cakes, dragon boat racing, drinking realgar wine, hanging calamus (chang), hanging mugwort leaves, etc.