Formula and making method of red heart cake

Red heart cake, one of the famous products in Yongchun County, southern Fujian, is delicious and delicious, and it is the best gift. Red heart cake is commonly known as "bride candy". Ji Hong, as its name implies, wishes lovers all shall be well, and love will last forever and grow old together. The raw materials of red heart cake are very simple, including glutinous rice, sugar and kumquat. Red heart cake, tender and sweet, fragrant and elastic, has the sweet burp of kumquat after eating, which is very suitable for tea. Yongchun's red heart cake not only expresses loyal love, but also crosses the ocean and becomes the sweet fruit of tens of millions of overseas Chinese living in southern Fujian.

The raw materials for making red heart cakes are glutinous rice, sugar and kumquat, but the production process requires exquisite: the glutinous rice is washed with warm water, then fried in a pot, then ground into powder and placed on a bamboo screen covered with white gauze. Take the sugar and cook it in another pot until it is "shredded". When the sugar is slightly cold, add the prepared glutinous rice flour, mix 0.5 kg of sugar with 0.35 kg of glutinous rice flour, stir, rub with both hands, sprinkle with a small amount of kumquat, and rub with both hands repeatedly, so that the finished red heart cake is finished. The next day, when cutting into small squares with a sharp knife, sprinkle some cooked "dust". Dialect: "When you see that your hands are tough and tender, your axe will not be five inches deep." The red heart cake made in this way is tender, smooth, sweet and elastic, and tastes like kumquat after eating, so it is a good seasoning for drinking tea.