The cake eaten during the Qingming Festival is called Qingming cake, which is a traditional Qingming Festival food popular in Jiangnan.

It is said that this traditional pastry for Qingming cold food was created in the Song Dynasty and was commonly known as "noodles" at that time. It was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that it became officially popular in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, when making it among the people, it is advocated that it should be vegetarian and not meat, and fat meat should be excluded, so as to spiritually connect it with the Qingming Festival.

How to make Qingming pancakes:

Ingredients: 500 grams of japonica rice flour, 333 grams of glutinous rice flour, 250 grams of cotton vegetables

Stuffing: pork, pickles, bamboo shoots , carrots, dried tofu, mushrooms, dried shrimps, green onions, etc.

Method:

1. Wash the cotton vegetables and blanch them. After blanching, remove them and rinse them with cold water.

2. Put it into a food processor and add appropriate amount of water to smash it.

3. Add japonica rice flour and glutinous rice flour (3:2) to the cotton vegetable juice, put it into the bread machine and select the dough mixing program.

4. After the dough is kneaded, divide it into 80 grams of dough.

5. Fry the fillings and set aside (increase or decrease according to personal preference).

6. Shape the dough into a bowl, add enough fillings, close and shape into a round shape.

7. Place "grapefruit leaves" under the Qingming cake. You can also use palm leaves or oil paper instead. Steam them in water for about 15 minutes. The fragrance will be fragrant.