Customs

There is a unique and original traditional food in the countryside of Germany - Thousand-Flower Cake.

Every year new rice appears, and farmers celebrate the harvest by grinding new rice into flour and steaming cakes. Although new rice is fragrant, it is hard in nature, so farmers soak the new rice in water with straw ash. Because the straw ash contains alkaline and has a unique alkaline aroma, the new rice becomes softer and fragrant after being soaked in the straw ash water. When steamed, the cake is fragrant, glutinous, delicious, and has a unique flavor. It is loved by farmers old and young. .

Origin

It is said that thousand-layer cake originated in the early Ming Dynasty. When Zhu Yuanzhang was conquering the world, he defeated Quzhou and was intercepted by officers and soldiers on Mount Linzhu in Changlin, Shouchang County. At this critical moment of life and death, I saw bursts of white mist coming from Zhushan Mountain, blocking the sight of the officers and soldiers. Zhu Yuanzhang survived the desperate situation. When Zhu Yuanzhang became Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he kept thinking of this strange thing. Then he decided to go south to Shouchang.

Zhu Yuanzhang went on the road incognito and came to Changlin, Shouchang. He saw the people grinding new rice and steaming cakes to celebrate the harvest. Zhu Yuanzhang

Just when he wanted to enter the farmhouse to see what was going on, he was stopped by the magistrate of Shouchang County who went to the countryside to inspect. Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly winked at the county magistrate, indicating that he should keep quiet so as not to alarm the people. He whispered again: How about we go grindstone together? So Zhu Yuanzhang

and the magistrate of Shouchang County started pushing a grinding mill at a farmer's house, and performed a wonderful scene of "double grinding" between the monarch and his ministers. The slurry of ground rice flour is like ambergris, and the layers of rice slurry steamed cakes are taller than the previous ones. After Zhu Yuanzhang finished grinding the flour, he tasted the newly steamed cake and felt that he was full of energy, so Long Yan was very happy. Zhu Yuanzhang praised while eating: What a sweet cake, layer cake, like a thousand-layer cake! The emperor's words are golden and jade, and the height is nine stories, which means that he will have plenty of food and clothing every year. Since then, Thousand Layer Cake has become famous all over the world.

The key to making steamed mille-feuille cake is to soak the rice. New rice is used as the raw material, and the rice has a full aroma. Straw ash is made from new straw that year. The ash water smells fragrant but has no peculiar smell, and the color is moister and yellower. Nowadays, there are also mille-feuille cakes sold in the market. Their color is yellow and dark, because most of them are dyed with pigments, which is unhygienic and does not have that alkali aroma. It is better to make it traditionally. Although it is more laborious, it tastes delicious and is safe and healthy.