Classification of rice cakes

Categorization of rice cakes

There are many kinds of rice cakes, the representative ones are white cake in the north, yellow rice cake in the farmhouse in the northern part of the country, water-milled rice cake in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and red turtle cake in Taiwan. There is a difference between the northern and southern flavors of rice cakes.

Northern rice cakes are steamed, fried two kinds, are sweet; Southern rice cakes in addition to steaming, frying, there are pieces of fried and boiled in soup, the taste of sweet and salty. It is said that the earliest rice cake is for the night of sacrifice to the gods, the year dynasty for ancestors used, and later became the Spring Festival food. Rice cake is not only a kind of festival food, but also brings new hope to people every year. As a poem in the late Qing Dynasty said, "the hearts of many good high, harmonic production of food, the righteousness of the year to win the year, to pray for the year longing."