Zhengao, also known as crystal Longfeng cake, is a kind of traditional cake breakfast food of Han nationality in Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province. With glutinous rice and red dates as raw materials, they are stacked in three or four layers. Steam with large or small fire. Bright color, red and white, sticky and sweet. A sweet cake made from glutinous rice and red dates.
Brief introduction of steamer cake
Steamer cake is a snack in Guanzhong area. The quality of the steamer is the best. The raw materials of steamer cake are jiangmi (traditionally Wuxi glutinous rice), jujube (Lingbao Maotou jujube is the best), the proportion of which is 10kg per pot of jiangmi, 3kg of jujube for rice soaking, steamer filling, water adding and fire power, etc., all of which have strict requirements.
Zhengao, also known as crystal Longfeng cake, is a kind of traditional cake breakfast food of Han nationality in Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province. With glutinous rice and red dates as raw materials, they are stacked in three or four layers. Steam with large or small fire. Bright color, red and white, sticky and sweet. A sweet cake made from glutinous rice and red dates.
The steamer, which had been produced in the late primitive society, had pottery steamer again in the Neolithic age, developed into copper steamer in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and then became iron. Since then, the cooker of iron retort has been handed down from generation to generation. This kind of iron steamer is like a cylinder, with many air holes at the bottom.
The method of steaming cake
Raw materials: steamer cake raw materials are jiangmi 10 jin (traditional Wuxi glutinous rice), jujube 3 jin (Lingbao Maotou jujube is the best), water 30 jin, raisin amount.
The proportion is 10kg for each pot of rice, 3kg for jujube, and there are strict requirements for rice soaking, steamer filling, water adding and fire work.
Practice:
Soak rice, rice is glutinous rice, water is clear water. Soak rice for a while, soak rice heart, wash it several times, remove foam and drain water.
Second filling steamer, first jujube, raisin, then rice, one layer, one layer more than one layer, and finally a layer of red jujube (dates), raisin top.
Three fire work, is generally about two hours after the fire steam to slow fire steam for another five or six hours.
The fourth is to add water, one is to add warm water to the jujube rice in the steamer, so as to blend the jujube rice, the second is to add cold water to the large pot from the vent port, so that the hot gas generated in the pot will rush into the steamer.
When steaming the cake, put the steamer on a large pot, add water to the pot, and then spread the soaked glutinous rice and red dates on the bottom of the steamer. Specifically, we should lay a layer of red dates first, then a layer of glutinous rice, such a layer sandwiched with a layer, a total of seven layers (three layers of rice and four layers of dates). Put wet cloth and pot cover on the back cover. Boil it in a strong fire. After steaming, sprinkle water on a wet cloth. Sprinkle water three times. Finally, simmer it in a gentle fire. It can be steamed in five or six hours.