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What are the traditional cakes?

Traditional cakes include Osmanthus Jelly, baked cakes, rice cakes, peas and mung bean cakes.

1, Osmanthus Jelly: It has a history of 300-400 years in China and was made in the late Ming Dynasty. It is made of glutinous rice flour, sweet-scented osmanthus and sugar. It tastes very delicate and has a faint sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance.

2, hair cake: widely distributed in the vast areas of north and south, is a traditional Han cuisine. Made of glutinous rice, it tastes delicious. This is a popular cake food. Among them, "Longyou Hair Cake" is a non-legacy project with unique production technology. In addition, the cakes made in Yueyang and Huizhou also have their own characteristics.

3. Rice cake: It has a long history and is one of the traditional snack foods in China. The rice cake is steamed with glutinous rice or rice flour, which is convenient to process and make, resistant to storage and diverse to eat. Similar to the present rice cake, this kind of rice cake was discovered in the Han Dynasty. So it is very popular with the public.

4, Beijing peas: It is a court snack, and it is said that the Queen Mother of the West likes it best. With such publicity, its value is even more arrogant. However, the color of pea yellow is not completely natural, and the cooked peas are not so yellow.

5. Mung bean cake: it is one of the famous cakes with Han characteristics. Mung bean cake can be divided into south and north according to taste. The north is Beijing flavor, and it is cooked without any oil. Although the entrance is soft, there is no greasy feeling. The mung bean cakes in the south are a bit like you, because southerners add oil to make them stick together in order to prevent the cakes from becoming loose.