Origin of Putian Red Dumplings

Putian Red Dumpling is based on the legend of Panshe and Meisi in ancient Putian.

Legend has it that there was a rich boy named Panshe in ancient Putian, who was infatuated with a prostitute named Meisi. When the family's fortunes declined, Mei Si realized that she felt guilty and taught him how to make a new kind of pastry to atone for her sins. Delicious to attract guests outside the clouds, the fragrance of the cave attracted out of the fairy, south to north, business is booming, and more sales at a small profit, reputation, the townspeople will be this pastry called "Pan She turtle".

Panshe for thanks to the grace of the Misi, but also do not want to break the identity of Misi's prostitutes, so in each tortoise on the rice ball point a small red seal, and sprinkled with a few white rice (Putian dialect of rice and the United States homophonic), change the name of this confectionery group "Misi Panshe tortoise," and later known as the "red ball! "

Expanded Information

Structural Characteristics of Red Dumplings:

"Red Dumplings" are steamed food, consisting of two parts: the skin and the filling. In the past, the glutinous rice flour used for the skin of the red dumplings was made from glutinous rice soaked in water overnight, and the next day it was picked to the mill to be ground into glutinous rice flour. The ground glutinous rice flour was wet and drained.

Now many townspeople in order to figure a convenient, generally buy bags of ready-made glutinous rice flour (now also used after the fermentation of flour) mixed with food red, and then add the right amount of warm water and good, kneaded into a ball and rolled into a long round, and then handfuls of ping-pong-sized lumps, crushed into a pancake-like by hand, into a "red doughnut skin! Red Dough Skin". When rolling out the red dough skin, you have to master the strength, in order to roll out the right thickness. If the skin is too thick, it will affect the taste, and if it is too thin, it will be easy to break the skin.

Source of Reference

Baidu Encyclopedia-Red Dough