Retort cake zèng gāo

Retort zèng, consonant z, rhyme èng, tone four.

Cake gāo, consonant g, rhyme āo, tone one.

The cake belongs to the traditional snacks of Xi'an, Guanzhong, and Jinnan regions, and is steamed with glutinous rice, jujubes, or jujubes; nowadays, some of them are steamed with red beans and raisins on an iron cauldron.

Retort pinyin zèng

1, a kind of tiled vessel for steaming rice in ancient times. The bottom has many holes through the steam grid, placed on the li steaming, as the modern steamer: cauldron dust kettle fish.

2, [retort] now steamed rice with wooden barrels, with drawers and no bottom.

3, a vessel used for distilling or causing objects to decompose: curved-necked retort.

Origin:

The Zhou Li - Palace of Heaven, there is a fruit of the food of the fruit of the dry bait patties recorded, "patties" is in the glutinous rice flour added to the filling of bean paste (ancient times called the end of the bean crumbs) steamed into cakes and pastries. Pre-Qin "rice cake" is in the glutinous rice flour with bean paste filling steamed cake, and do not put jujube, to the Tang Dynasty to develop into jujube and rice co-steaming. In the Tang Dynasty, Wei Juyuan invited Emperor Zhongzong to a banquet called "Yakou Banquet", and the crystal dragon and phoenix cake was similar to the present-day steamer cake.

After the Tang and Song dynasties, there were more and more cakes, both wheat flour and rice flour, beans and fruits and vegetables. Even glutinous rice cake, but also from the shape, flavor and other aspects of dozens of kinds of more. Each type of cake has its own name. Some are named after the ingredients used, some are named after their shapes, and retort cakes are named after their unique cooking utensils.

Because red dates and glutinous rice are rich in nutrients and nourish and strengthen the body, the cauldron cake is well received by consumers of all classes. General Feng Yuxiang called "Xi'an cauldron cake" the "Yan cuisine of the common people". When meetings are held in Xi'an and Guanzhong areas, retort cake is often served in the morning. When villagers rush to the meeting, they have to eat a plate of cauldron cake; when they return, they buy one or two plates, pack them in tiger skin leaves, and bring them back home for their families to enjoy.