Patty cake is a delicacy often eaten by southerners on New Year's Day, but now so many people don't know how to do it, and now I'm going to share it with you.

First of all, mochi is made of glutinous rice not glutinous rice flour, pick refined glutinous rice, to choose full grain, translucent glutinous rice, that kind of glutinous rice taste good.

Soak the glutinous rice for more than 24 hours, let it rise, drain the water, and put it in a pot to steam. Then find a harder utensil to mash the glutinous rice, rotten into a gelatinous state, in the countryside there is a kind of thing is specially used to mash the glutinous rice, now rare, usually with a pulverizer.

Sprinkle some glutinous rice powder on a clean container, knead the mashed glutinous rice, make it into a rectangle or cake, and put it in a ventilated dry place to dry. After drying, it can be soaked in water and kept for a long time.

You can also pound the patties while hot and press them into large cakes, it is necessary to cool down soon after, with a sharp knife to cut the large round cake into long strips. Note that not completely cooled cut when sticky knife, cooled too long too hard, must master the time. If in winter, the night pressure cake, the next day you can cut.

The patties can be eaten in many ways, fried in oil, boiled in water, baked on fire, and boiled with sweet wine and sugar. But the elderly and children must pay attention to eat, do not eat too much at a time, because the glutinous rice eaten too much is not easy to digest, may cause accumulation of food.