Eating cauldron cake is addictive. There is a writer, dawn seven o'clock running, eight o'clock to go to the cauldron cake stall to eat three bowls, return to close the door to write to four o'clock in the afternoon before stopping, a number of years consistently, write a book for ten years, body strong hair black eyes not myopia. The steamer cake, really worthy of Xi'an's specialty snacks. Simply look at the deep mouth cauldron steaming cauldron cake, it has been full of "froth": the mouth width of two feet six, pot depth of two feet eight, made of cast iron, Shaanxi old saying that this pot for the "cauldron", cauldron cake that is thus named. Vendors selling cauldron cake is also very "rash", steamed cauldron cake iron cauldron, the outside was blackened by coal smoke, directly out to the food stalls on a rack, rather like a large black drum.

This kind of iron cauldron, in fact, not only unique to Qin Di, twenty years ago, almost all over the country can be seen. In ancient times, steamed food cooking utensils have pottery retort, the Shang and Zhou Dynasties have copper retort. The Song Dynasty poet Lu You's "Autumn Flower Song" has "long pestle pounding beads light, large cauldron cooking jade even the village incense" poem. However, the retort in the Song Dynasty was already an iron retort.

Since the reform and opening up, life has changed dramatically, the use of more than 2,000 years of iron cauldron gradually faded out of the people's kitchen, but only Shaanxi, the ancient style still exists, so far, most of the countryside farmhouse stove, most of the use of this large iron cauldron. Not only cauldrons, Shaanxi people eating utensils are big, like eating mutton steamed buns big old bowl, drinking soup with a big pot, even drinking tea is also a large teapot. In short, the big pot to cook, big bowl of wine, big, to eat the pain, big, created the food culture here. Even the Shaanxi people, also born with a black and red face, the face of the child four-square, God like a large iron cauldron.

The iron cauldron that steams the cauldron cake is big, but the cauldron cake is soft and delicate. This dessert snack is steamed with glutinous rice, cloud beans and red dates, and you can smell the unique aroma of glutinous rice from a distance after steaming. Retort cake is also very beautiful, the following layer of white rice infiltrated the color of jujube, a kind of crystal fresh and moist reddish-red luster, above a layer of cloudy beans, brown coffee, and then the upper layer is the red jujube, has long been rotted into a dark red jujube puree, vendors to the jujube puree and a layer of turquoise raisins sprinkled, the retort cake color is even more rich and distinctive. The taste is also good, soft and sweet, and the heat is big. Especially in the fall and winter seasons, Xi'an city streets can be seen everywhere retort cake vendors, many office workers also retort cake as an essential breakfast.