The traditional Chongyang cake has nine layers correct?

Not correct, the ancients eat cake generally 2 to 3 layers, of course, there are five layers, nine layers of more. The big family is more sophisticated, each layer will be sandwiched between candied fruit preserved petals and so on, small, exquisite eye-catching. Smaller families are more likely to use yellow rice to make two layers of flower cakes, decorated with jujubes or chestnuts, a delicious.

The tallest Chung Yeung cake has nine layers, like a tower. Chrysanthemum cake, also known as "flower cake", is named after its consumption during the Chrysanthemum Festival and is a traditional festival food for the Chrysanthemum Festival. It is common in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and not very popular in all regions of the country. In order to be beautiful to eat, people make Chongyang cake colorful, but also in the cake surface sprinkled with some wood rhinoceros flowers, so Chongyang cake is also called osmanthus cake.

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Because there are a lot of contraindications to eat Chongyang cake, many people are not suitable for consumption, the atmosphere of the festival is inevitably some of the spoiled, at this time, if you know how to choose the right for their own Chongyang cake, is not completely can not eat. Hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease patients can choose not to contain lard Chongyang cake; gastrointestinal function is not good people can make some of their own after fermentation Chongyang cake; pancreatitis patients can choose light, less fat Chongyang cake; diabetic patients can make some of the unsweetened salt and pepper varieties of Chongyang cake and so on.

Folk also use red dates, cornelian cherry, etc. as the embellishment of the Chongyang cake, medicine and food some Chinese herbs into the cake, you can achieve the effect of therapeutic food. As long as you have a good grasp of their dietary choices, the varieties of Chongyang cake "improvement", choose or make their own varieties, can also add to the atmosphere of the festival.