Osmanthus Cake is a delicious pastry with a history of more than 300 years, made from cooked glutinous rice flour, crushed rock sugar granules and honey osmanthus flowers. It has a long history, delicious and refreshing, easy to do, a variety of types, to meet the various needs of people for flavor. And it has a beautiful historical legend, which adds to the historical value of osmanthus cake.

Legend has it that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xindu has a peddler named Liu Jixiang, he was inspired by the scholar Yang Shengan's childhood reading, resting on the banks of the Guihu Lake, osmanthus fragrance of the lounge, the fresh osmanthus flowers collected, squeezed off the bitter water, impregnated with sugar, salted into honey osmanthus flowers, adding steamed rice flour made into cakes for sale, named osmanthus cake. Once the osmanthus cake was sold, it attracted people to buy it first, and was highly appreciated by customers, and sales increased day by day, and it became famous from then on.

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Nanjing Osmanthus Cake

Nanjing Osmanthus, not only the Mausoleum of the Sun Yat-sen Mountain has osmanthus, hidden in the streets and lanes of osmanthus trees are countless. The fragrance of osmanthus flowers in October, nowadays, Nanjing city is filled with the aroma of osmanthus flowers, so furious that people can't help but think of osmanthus cake.

Nanjing's osmanthus cake is not only beautiful and soft, but also has a special fragrance, even after eating, the aroma is still lingering. In October, it is the right time to eat osmanthus cake, chewing the soft osmanthus cake, with the fragrance of osmanthus, how to enjoy.

Hannin osmanthus cake

Osmanthus cake was created in the late Ming Dynasty, the cake is soft and moist, white color, with a strong osmanthus aroma, the entrance into the dregs of the taste of the fragrance, rich in nutritional value, young and old women are suitable for consumption, is a gift to friends and relatives, the best of the self-service. Hubei Xianning osmanthus cake is characterized by unique ingredients, oily and not greasy, not astringent in the mouth, swallowing slippery, sweet and salty, fragrant with cool, doubly popular.

Xiayang Osmanthus Cake

Xiayang Osmanthus Cake has a history of more than 100 years and is famous both inside and outside the country. It is made of natural osmanthus juice, cellar storage for 3 years, take out, with cinnamon, cassia, musk, mother of cloves, incense, incense, incense, Peilan and other traditional Chinese medicine spices to strengthen the spleen, refined into "osmanthus sauce", and then mixed into fried, ground, steamed, sifted fine glutinous rice flour.

Together with high-quality sugar, five-spice powder, sesame seeds and salt water, the cake is made into a combination of cakes, and then moistened with steam so that it does not crumble after a long period of time, and then it becomes a delicious sweet, refreshing and invigorating pastries. Xiaoyang osmanthus cake is characterized by unique ingredients oily and not greasy, not astringent in the mouth, swallowing slippery, sweet and salty, fragrant with cool, doubly popular among people, become a home trip, gifts to friends of the good, reputation for a hundred years.

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