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Cantonese turnip cake

Cantonese turnip cake is one of the traditional cakes of Guangdong, one of the traditional dishes in the memory of the old Canton. The taste is savory and fresh, and the main ingredients are wheat flour, white radish, bacon (raw), and shrimp as a supplementary ingredient. Radish, also known as "choy tau" (菜头), which means "good luck", is the most seasonal and pleasing vegetable for Chinese New Year. Bacon is rich in phosphorus, potassium and sodium, and also contains fat, protein and carbohydrates. Bacon is made from fresh skinned pork, split into pieces, cured with salt and a small amount of sodium nitrite or sodium nitrate, black pepper, cloves, allspice, fennel and other spices, and then air-dried or smoked, which has the effect of appetizing, dispelling cold and eliminating food. Pickled food has a high amount of nitrates and should not be consumed in excess. Canton style radish cake is characterized by a delicate texture, flavorful and fragrant, the disadvantage is that it is too tender, not suitable for soup.

Cantonese horseshoe cake

Cantonese horseshoe cake, water chestnut is called "horseshoe" in Cantonese, steamed with sugar water mixed with water chestnut powder. It is translucent, can be folded without cracking, pouting without stopping, soft, slippery, smooth, tough both, taste very sweet. Horseshoe powder is rich in vitamins B and C, vegetable protein, phosphorus, and has the effect of clearing heat and removing dampness and detoxification. Horseshoe is water chestnut, and some people call the ground chestnut, skin color purple and black, white flesh, sweet and juicy flavor, crisp and delicious, since ancient times, there is a subterranean Snow Pear's reputation, but also some people regarded as the ginseng of Jiangnan. Horseshoe can be used as both fruit and vegetable, is a very good seasonal food. Sugar water, generally refers to the juice-based green bean, red bean congee, sweet potato, white fruit bamboo, eggs, lotus seeds, sesame paste, walnut paste ...... and so on; sugar water and soup, with the same nourishing effect. There are a lot of materials that can be used as sugar water, different materials have different effects, some belong to the coolness, and some have the hot and dry nature. The combination of different auxiliary ingredients according to different main ingredients can achieve the effect of complementing each other.

Cantonese Mala Cake

Cantonese Mala Cake is a dish with flour and eggs as the main ingredients, and red-flake sugar, baking powder, peanut oil, and milk as the side ingredients. Red flake sugar to red color, the middle of the sandwich uniform (generally one-third thickness), no sandwich or sandwich less for the second best. Iced sugar after opening taste clear, sweet (and red sugar taste is very different), the color is mostly yellowish, the quality is better than brown sugar. Glucose, fructose and other monosaccharides and polysaccharides contained in tablets of sugar can accelerate the metabolism of skin cells and provide energy for cells. Folic acid and trace substances contained in tablets of sugar can accelerate blood circulation and increase blood volume, stimulate the hematopoietic function of the body, expand blood volume, and improve the supply of nutrients, oxygen and water to the local skin. Some vitamins and electrolytes contained in tablets can balance the water and liquid metabolism of the intracellular environment by regulating the concentration of certain substances in the tissues, eliminating the cellular metabolites, and maintaining the cleanliness of the intracellular and external environments. Certain natural acids and pigment regulating substances contained in tablet sugar can effectively regulate various pigment metabolic processes, balance the amount of pigment secretion and pigment distribution within the skin, and reduce the abnormal heap of local pigment. Baking powder is a compound bulking agent, also known as foaming powder and baking powder, mainly used as a fast loosening agent for pasta food. There are some sweet and edible baking powder, which is a kind of fast leavening agent, mainly used for the fast leavening of grain products. In the production of cakes, cakes, buns, steamed bread, shortbread, bread and other foods.