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Supai traditional cake xian

Suzhou-style cakes are the general name of special cakes produced in Suzhou and its surrounding areas. Its fillings are mostly nuts and diced meat, flavored with osmanthus and roses, and the taste is heavy and sweet. As follows:

1, jujube paste biscuit

Jujube mud sesame seed cake is a traditional China cake. When making, a proper amount of flour, maltose, eggs, crude oil and baking soda are mixed into dough, steamed and mashed black jujube paste, cooked lard, pine nuts, melon seeds and osmanthus flowers are added, and baked in the furnace wall at 150- 180℃. Sweet and delicious, unique flavor.

2. Su-style moon cakes

Su-style moon cakes are traditional food for Mid-Autumn Festival. They originated in Suzhou and belong to Su-style cakes, which are deeply loved by people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Su-style moon cakes are crispy in skin, beautiful in color, fat but not greasy in filling and crisp in taste. Su-style moon cakes are made of wheat flour, maltose, edible vegetable oil or lard, water, etc. Crispy crust made of wheat flour, edible vegetable oil or lard. They are processed by making crispy skin, stuffing, molding and baking.

3, osmanthus lard rice cake

Sweet-scented osmanthus lard rice cake, jade color, sweet-scented osmanthus; Mint lard rice cake, green and cool. Roses, sweet-scented osmanthus and orange peels with bright colors and strong fragrance have become auxiliary materials for color enhancement and fragrance enhancement of Soviet-style cakes after pickling.

4.generous cake

Dafang cake (Suzhou style) is one of the traditional cakes in Jiangsu, which has the characteristics of thin skin and heavy stuffing, white color and steaming supply. This product is seasonal, generally listed in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and ordered during the Dragon Boat Festival. There are sweet and salty, and the sweet ones are four-color generous cakes of rose, passion fruit, mint and red bean paste; Salty with fresh meat and big cakes.

5. Ding Sheng cake

Ding Sheng cake is a traditional cake in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, which belongs to the Soviet-style cake. Its color is reddish, soft and fragrant, with sweet bean paste flavor. According to legend, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Suzhou people made it specially for Han Jiajun in Han Shizhong to go out to inspire and use troops. The word "Ding Sheng" appeared on the cake, and then it was called "Ding Sheng cake".