Where can I buy retort cake
The retort cake is an instant product! It's easy to spoil!
Xi'an Huimin Street, retort cake can only be bought now, there is a Southeast Asian retort cake in Huimin Street is the most authentic.
How to make homemade cauldron cake
1, wash the jujube, soak in boiling water for about 1 hour, fish out the jujube pinch broken by hand, put into the basin, plus the right amount of sugar marinade until the use of the time, during which you can more than a few times to stir, so that the sugar is fully dissolved to the inside of the jujube.
Soaking with boiling water can shorten the time, and the date skin is easier to rot.
Put three spoons of sugar according to the amount.
Stir a few more times during the curing process, so that the sugar is fully dissolved
2, pour the river rice into the basin (the amount of rice can be used to make a measuring cup of small rice bowls, the ratio of rice and water 1:1.5), and then pan the rice with cold water (pay attention not to pan too much, or steam out of the steam after the retort cake viscosity is not enough), pour the dry water, and then add the water in accordance with the ratio of the rice soak for about 40 minutes.
In order to accurately add water with a bowl as a measuring cup.
Pour the rice through cold water first.
3, the soaked rice and water directly into the pot, and then add the right amount of sugar (not too much, too sweet but not delicious, the amount of cooked thick rice paste has a light sweetness appropriate), and then open the medium heat to cook, during the period of non-stop stirring until a certain consistency and then turn off the fire, and then in the pot into a layer of thick rice paste, and then a layer of jujubes (gently press a little bit), and then a layer of thick rice paste. Bird's Nest rice milk, and then a layer of jujube (how many layers of retort cake depends on your ingredients and the size of the basin).
Add four tablespoons of sugar to the amount here.
Slowly keep stirring and cook until the rice water is thick, and the rice core from white to translucent can turn off the fire.
First, in the bottom of the basin, a layer of rice, and then a layer of jujube.
Then lay a layer of rice, above a layer of jujubes (jujubes and rice syrup just run out)
4, here's a little secret: you can use a little edible alkali into water, with the closing hand gently and then yards of the surface of the cauldron cake wiped with a layer of alkaline water, pay attention to do not excessive, more than the cauldron cake layer will be a little bitter. Alkaline water can not only make the steam out of the steamer cake color beautiful, and the skin of the jujube is easier to steam rotten.
The rice coated with alkaline water is obviously a little yellow
5, add enough cold water in the steamer, put the pot into the pot, cover the pot with a wet cloth and press the lid with a heavy object to ensure that the sealing of the steamer, turn on the fire to boil until the pot around the emergence of steam, and then turn to a small fire and then steam for 1 hour after turning off the fire, smothered for 15 minutes to get off the pot.
Prepare on the steamer, a pot of cauldron cake is very heavy, you must use a steaming rack
Steam rack height should be appropriate, otherwise the lid will not cover.
Cover the pot lid compaction
6, out of the pot with a spatula to the bowl, to be from one side of the top to the bottom of the shovel in the end, so that there can be layers of cauldron cake Oh, look at it is not very good ah.
The hot steam cauldron cake out of the pot.
How to pronounce cauldron cake
Cauldron cake Pinyin: [zèng] [gāo]
But the place is also called "jing cake".
But it is also called "jing gao" in some places.