Horseshoe flour, has been around me since I was a child, as a Cantonese, it is an essential member of the breakfast refreshments, its light and fragrant flavor, loved by all.

Horseshoe powder, also known as water chestnut powder, is processed directly from fresh water chestnuts, which is rich in vitamin B and vitamin C, and has the function of clearing heat and detoxification. However, due to the low percentage of starch extracted from water chestnuts, the horseshoe flour itself is relatively expensive, which made it a food only available to ancient noble guests.

Horseshoe Powder

How did horseshoe powder come about? In fact, the invention of every new thing is more or less with an accidental component. According to legend, the Tang Dynasty named Long Kun of people, feel fresh horseshoes fresh and delicious, so the hoard more transported back to their hometowns intend to give friends and relatives to share food, but in the lack of storage conditions in ancient times, fresh horseshoes will soon begin to rot. And Long Kun will bake the hoof into a dry powder state, when eating the powder will be boiled into a paste with the townspeople to eat, this is the original look of the hoof cake.

And after so many years of evolution, the use of horseshoe powder has become a variety of up, today to share with you some of the food made with horseshoe powder.

The first thing that comes to mind when you think of horseshoe powder is horseshoe cake, which is very easy to make.

Materials: 50 grams of horseshoe powder, 300 grams of water, 50 grams of icing sugar, fresh water chestnuts

Practice:

1, 50 grams of horseshoe powder mixed with 150 grams of water and prepare for the slurry is called the raw slurry.

2, 50 grams of rock candy and 150 grams of hot water in the mix, until the rock candy completely melted, and then put on the stove on low heat to boil.

3, remove the boiling sugar water from the fire, quickly spoon a spoonful of raw syrup poured into the sugar water to fully mix, to make a transparent thick cooked syrup.

4. Pour the cooked syrup back into the raw syrup and stir quickly, then you can get the white sticky raw and cooked syrup.

5, and finally the fresh water chestnut into the raw and cooked pulp, poured into the mold on the pot to steam for 30 minutes, out of the pot after cooling off the mold can be eaten.

Materials: 50 grams of horseshoe powder, 100 grams of red dates, water, sugar 30 grams

1, after the dates are removed from the nucleus, soak for 3 hours, soak and finish adding about 400 grams of water on the pot to steam for 40 minutes, will be thoroughly steamed dates.

2, steamed only 300 grams of jujube water, divided into 150 grams of two equal parts.

3, the operation of making raw and cooked pulp is the same as the steps of making raw and cooked pulp for horseshoe cake, please refer to the steps above.

4, after the production of raw and cooked pulp, it began to steam on the pot, each time only a spoonful of steam, each time the steam time for 15 minutes, after steaming a layer of steam and then steam the next layer, and finally get the red dates cake will be with the state of the thousand layers.