One catty of Guoaitang Bazhen cake (Poria cocos, Coix seed, lotus seeds, Euryale euryales, yam, white lentils, stir-fried malt, hawthorn, rice and glutinous rice)
Wash basin, water
Methods/steps
1 put a catty of bazhen powder in the pot (be sure to choose a slightly larger pot. When I first started cooking, I felt that there was not much powder in a catty, so I chose a small pot and changed the big pot halfway.
2 Add cold water and stir the dough. Note: Add water when mixing the dough. The surface can be suitably hard.
When three sides are alive, knead the dough into long strips.
4 Cut the dough into 32 pieces, each about 20g.
5. Make small dough pieces into small steamed buns by hand.
6 put it in the pot and start steaming. After the water boils, steam for about 15 minutes.
Look, this is steamed eight-treasure cake steamed bread.
Efficacy of Bazhen Cake and Its Applicable People
Chen Shigong, the inventor of the beautiful young woman's eight treasures cake, was a doctor in the Ming Dynasty. He said from personal experience that after serving for a hundred days, he can be smart and anti-aging. Cixi ate Bazhen cake every day in her later years. For young women, Bazhen cake can eliminate spots and acne, improve skin color and make skin shiny and delicate.
Bazhen cake, a classic recipe for nourishing the spleen and stomach for people with weak spleen and stomach, and yam and barley porridge recommended by many experts are all derived from Bazhen cake. Chinese medicine says: spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow and the source of qi and blood biochemistry. Therefore, if you want to be healthy, you must first regulate your spleen and stomach.
Yam, Coix seed and Euryale ferox are all regarded as top grade in Shennong Herbal Classic. Regular consumption has the health care functions of preventing diseases, increasing intelligence, calming nerves and delaying aging.
People who need to tonify the kidney and replenish the essence, yam "tonify the spleen and deficiency, benefit the essence and strengthen the kidney". Euryale ferox is the best choice for strengthening spleen and tonifying kidney. People with symptoms of kidney deficiency such as waist and knee pain and frequent urination at night are very suitable for tonic with Bazhen cake.
Very suitable for diabetic patients. Bazhen cake has no sugar. Yam and coix seed are both good dietotherapy products for lowering blood sugar, and long-term consumption has obvious hypoglycemic effect.
It is very suitable for the elderly who are weak, children with congenital deficiency, and people who are seriously ill, weak after illness and have long-term diarrhea. Bazhen cake nourishes your blood gas. Only when your blood gas is sufficient can you resist diseases.
This Bazhen cake has the functions of invigorating stomach, promoting digestion and invigorating spleen. It is made of eight kinds of Chinese herbal medicines and tastes good.
Formula of Bazhen cake
2 kg of glutinous rice flour, japonica rice flour 1 kg. Hawthorn 100g, malt 20g, lentil 20g, coix seed 15g, euryales seed 10g, yam 10g, poria cocos 10g and lotus seed 10g. Three kilograms of sucrose.
working methods
1. Crataegus pinnatifida, Fructus Hordei Germinatus, Radix Sophorae Tonkinensis, Coicis Semen, Semen Euryales, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Poria and Semen Nelumbinis are pulverized into powder.
2. Sieve the powder, sprinkle water and mix the powder after sieving, which is the cake powder for use.
3. Mix cake flour, glutinous rice flour, japonica rice flour and sucrose with water and knead into thin dough.
4. Brush a layer of oil on the flower-shaped cake mold to prevent the powder from falling off, then put the dough into the cake mold and scrape it clean with a scraper.
5. Turn the cake mold upside down, knock out the cake blank, put the raw cake blank in the baking tray and bake in the oven at 200℃ for about 5 minutes.
How to eat Bazhen cake?
Bazhen eight treasure cake
Cooked Bazhen cake can be eaten directly as a snack. 1 time every morning and before dinner, or at any time. Of course, in addition to making eight kinds of ingredients into Bazhen cake, you can also make it into paste with boiling water and cook porridge. If eaten regularly, it can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach.
The Practice of Authentic Spleen-invigorating Bazhen Cake
Spleen-invigorating Bazhen cake
In fact, there are many recipes of Bazhen cake handed down, but they all have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach. Hawthorn and malt are aimed at digestion and accumulation. Replaced with ginseng and dangshen, the purpose is to keep fit.
Formula of Bazhen cake
40 grams of ginseng, 40 grams of white lentils, 40 grams of yam, 40 grams of euryales, 30 grams of poria cocos, 30 grams of lotus seeds, 30 grams of atractylodes macrocephala, 30 grams of coix seed, 200 grams of white sugar, 200 grams of white honey, 200 grams of crispy rice, and glutinous rice flour 1000 grams.
working methods
1, Ginseng Radix, Semen Lablab Album, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Semen Euryales, Poria, Semen Nelumbinis, Atractylodis Rhizoma and Coicis Semen, and making into very fine powder.
2, the old rice crust is extremely dry, fried after breaking, and ground into very fine powder.
3. Mix flour, crispy noodles, glutinous rice flour, sugar and white honey evenly.
4. Spread a layer of square towel in the steamer and put it on the wooden frame. Spread the prepared flour evenly on the wooden frame and steam it in the pot.
5. Let it cool after taking out the pot, cut it into pieces with a knife, open it in the shade or dry it in the sun, and put it in a sealed and clean container.
Dietotherapy effect of Bazhen cake
Bazhen eight treasure cake
Jianpi Bazhen cake has a good dietotherapy effect on loose stool, emaciation and mental fatigue caused by spleen and stomach weakness. This is because ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala and Poria in Bazhen cake have the functions of invigorating qi and strengthening spleen, yam tonifies spleen and kidney, Euryale ferox and lotus seeds tonify spleen and astringent essence, white lentils and coix seed tonify spleen and eliminate dampness, and glutinous rice tonifies spleen and nourish yin. Their functions are the same, and the function of strengthening the spleen is of course very good.
Other formulas of Jianpi Bazhen cake
Spleen-invigorating Bazhen cake
Although Bazhen cake is made of eight kinds of traditional Chinese medicines, the selected drugs and dosage can be different. In addition to the two formulas introduced before, it is said that this Bazhen cake is divided into male Bazhen cake and female Bazhen cake. Here, let me introduce two more.
1, 1 kg of japonica rice flour (fried), 0.75 kg of soft sugar,10g of sesame oil, 6.25g of yam, 6.25g of euryales seed, 6.25g of poria cocos, 8g of fried chicken essence, 8g of licorice, and 8 g of codonopsis pilosula15.
2. Japonica rice flour (fried) 1 kg, soft sugar 0.75kg, cooked vegetable oil10g, yam, white lentil, Gordon Euryale seed 3.12g, fried chicken gold and Amomum villosum 4g, Poria 7.8g, gentleman meat 7.8g, Codonopsis pilosula.