Knife-cut cakes, northern snacks, cakes made of black and white glutinous rice or yellow wheat, and sold with red dates or bean paste, hence the name. Sellers who cut cakes usually walk the streets and sell them in hutongs, and use a nickname to calculate the weight of cut cakes. The cries of selling cut cakes are very special and recognizable.
Make large pieces with rice, dates or bean stuffing, put them on the chopping board and cut them into pieces for retail, so they are called cake cutting.
manufacturing process
Add water to rice flour, put it in a cage and steam it evenly, then soak the steamed rice flour in water and knead it evenly, press it into thin slices with the same thickness by hand, and spread it with bean paste or jujube paste to make four layers and three layers of stuffing. The layers are distinct, and the noodles and fillings are separated. When selling, cut it with a knife from top to bottom, put it on a plate and sprinkle with sugar.
manufacturing method
working methods
1. Wash glutinous rice and red dates and soak for 4-5 hours. Dry the glutinous rice and steam it in a steamer 15 minutes. Remove the core from the red dates, and put them in a boiling water pot to cook for 10 minutes. Take it away.
2. Steam for 15 minutes, open the lid, and pour boiling water into the glutinous rice. Stir while pouring boiling water to make glutinous rice fully absorb water; When the glutinous rice is completely stirred into porridge. Cover and steam for 20 minutes.
3. Use steamed glutinous rice and crush ribs with a spoon or garlic. Take a fresh-keeping box and wrap it with plastic wrap. Spread a layer of glutinous rice and compact it with a shovel.
4. Spread a layer of jujube and compact. Spread a layer of glutinous rice and compact it. In this way, two dates and three glutinous rice. Wrap it in plastic wrap and press a heavy object on it. Put it in the refrigerator 1 hour. Take it out, dip the knife in water, cut it into pieces, and dip it in sugar.
skill
1, the glutinous rice should be soaked for 4-5 hours in advance.
2. Don't add water to the glutinous rice when steaming it for the first time.
3. After the glutinous rice is steamed for the first time, add hot water to the glutinous rice, stir until the rice grains absorb water into a paste, and then steam.
4. After steaming for the second time, crush the glutinous rice with a spoon to make it gluten-free.
5. Finally, compact the cut cake with a heavy object.