Retort cake, using a kind of steamed food utensils called "retort" and named, retort for a kind of small hole at the bottom, can be placed in the pot on the steam food of the old cooking utensils, the Yellow River basin is commonly known as jinzi, so the retort cake is also called jingcao, so pronounced jing.

As the name implies, "retort cake

As the name suggests, "retort cake" is a "cake" made of red dates and glutinous rice, steamed in a "retort", hence the name. Cake rice jujube mingling, old and young savory, rich in nutrients, nourishing strong, color and lustre bright and moist, soft and sticky sweet, strong aroma pungent, eaten for a long time do not get tired of, the flavor is unique.

The retort cake is the Guanzhong region's flavorful snacks. The best quality is steamed in a ceramic cauldron. The raw materials of the steamer cake are river rice (traditionally Wuxi glutinous rice), jujube (Lingbao Maotou jujube is the best), and its ratio is 10 kilograms of river rice and 3 kilograms of jujube per pot. There are strict requirements for soaking the rice, loading the steamer, adding water, and firepower.

Expanded Information

The cauldron cake has a long history. It is rumored to have been introduced from Shaanxi hundreds of years ago. The cauldron is an ancient cooking utensil with a small hole at the bottom that can be placed on a pot to steam food. Lingbao is commonly known as Jinzi, so the cauldron cake is also called Jin Gao.

The oldness of the retort cake is first shown in its cooking utensils, which are steamed using the retort pot evolved from the oldest steaming utensil, the retort, which is also the reason for its name. The best quality comes from the ceramic cauldron. In addition to the oldest cooking utensil, the steamer cake evolved from the "dry bait rice cake," a food item used by princes during the Western Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago in China.

Mirror cake is one of Shaanxi's specialty snacks with a history of hundreds of years. It is made of glutinous rice flour and steamed in a hand-carved steamer made of special wood. "Wrongly written as" mirror "word. To this end, there have been special articles to correct the pronunciation of the word "retort". Unfortunately, in the interpretation of the mirror cake, only based on the pronunciation to infer that the mirror cake that is the cauldron cake, the two kinds of food will be mixed up.

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