The Origin of Sugar Cake

Remember when we were kids, almost every teahouse would have white sugar cake? This snack was first created in Shunde Lunjiao in the Ming Dynasty, is said to be a Liang vendors steamed muffins when the powder fell and created, it is sweet and refreshing popping smoke tough, it looks simple, the actual process is tedious to the very end: it is the rice grinder, with rice cake seed fermentation, add sugar steamed and become. The effort is very test master, but not affordable, so fewer and fewer restaurants are willing to do.

But Mr. Xu of the Shanghai Cuisine Soup House reported to reporters that he had found this traditional white sugar cake in Liyuan. The sugar cake looks white and crystalline with a bit of translucency, the surface is smooth and flat, and you can see it gently trembling when you pinch it. If you look closely, you will smell a slight sourness, which is the unique flavor of fermented flour. When you bite into a piece, you can see that the air holes inside are evenly distributed, and the taste is sweet and refreshing with a little bit of smoke. And can be comparable to the Guangzhou Liyuan sugar cake, I guess we have to go to Hong Kong Sham Shui Po Fuk Wah Street, Kun Kee, sold sugar cake for more than 20 years, it is said to be self-grinding sticky rice flour plus after fermentation of the old rice flour mixed with new rice flour to do, so unlike the usual eaten sugar cake with sour taste, fluffy and refreshing.

Sang Lung Bakery on Pei Ho Street in Shamshuipo, Hong Kong, which is also on the same street, also has a reputation for its sugar cakes. The friendly owner also says that he wants to share the delicious and inexpensive things with more people. Besides the white sugar cake, there is also yellow sugar cake, which is slightly sweetened with cane sugar, and after eating it, your mouth is still sweet and sweet. Recommended ~~

It is said that the Hong Kong long-established, family-style bakery "Shenglong Bakery" has been passed on to the second generation, according to the owner, Mr. Huang said that, in addition to the sugar cake, the store also has Taishan authentic flavor of the "three cakes": sugar cake, yellow sugar cake, pot cake. According to Mr. Huang, the owner of the shop, in addition to the white sugar cake, the shop also has the local flavor of Taishan "three cakes": white sugar cake, yellow sugar cake and pot cake. In fact, white sugar cake, yellow sugar cake is essentially the same, but the raw materials are different, one is white sugar, one is yellow sugar, but the flavor and taste is very different. According to Mr. Huang said, in ancient times in the countryside Taishan Qingming Festival, worship ancestors, white sugar cake, yellow sugar cake is indispensable. (Countryside words usually say: "line mountain cake" in fact refers to the white sugar cake and yellow sugar cake)