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Practice of Bao Gu Baba

Methods/steps

1, corn steamed bread flour 250g, eggs 50g, edible oil 20g, sugar 20g, and clear water 1000ml.

2. Add water to the corn flour and stir well. Knead into dough and let it stand for fermentation.

3. Knead the dough until it is soft, knead it into long strips, divide it into small pieces of the same size, and flatten it into a circle.

4. Put the cut dough directly into the cage and steam for about 15 minutes.

Corn Baba, also known as stereotyped Baba, is made of corn and is quite popular in southwest China. It is a delicious Yunnan snack. Corn Baba is usually ground into thick paste with sticky corn, then kneaded into palm-sized chunks and steamed to eat.

Corn bait blocks in Kunming and its surrounding areas are relatively rare, mainly ordinary bait blocks. The more authentic is Huize, Qujing, Yunnan, which tastes the best, because the altitude is higher, and the corn planted there tastes better. In addition, the production technology of corn bait blocks there has a history of hundreds of years.