Method for making Euryale ferox cake Traditional cake with special features

Euryale ferox cake is a delicious traditional cake, but the method is not complicated. It is mainly made of Euryale ferox, glutinous rice flour and white sugar. It tastes very good. Let's learn to do it together.

Method for making Gordon Euryale seed cake

Ingredients: 25 kg of sugar, 25 kg of cake powder and 0.9 kg of Euryale ferox powder.

Making:

1. Weighing: based on 65438+ 0.4 kg of finished product per pot, weigh 0.7 kg of stirred sugar, 0.7 kg of cake powder and 25 g of euryale seed powder.

2. Wipe the cake: mix the stirred sugar, cake powder and Euryale ferox powder and rub them on the table. After wetting, sieve with a 60-mesh sieve to form cake blank powder (don't use too much force to prevent swelling).

3. Pot and cut into strips: cover the bottom of the pot with a pot frame of 35×36 cm, put the kneaded cake powder into the pot, plane it by hand, and then level it with an iron comb. Press lightly (not too tightly) with a copper press, and open it into a 5×9 cm square. Take out the pot rack, let it stand for about 1 hour (to make the cake powder expand and solidify), and then wrap it one by one with color printing paper, and it is finished.

How to make Euryale ferox cake delicious?

1. Euryale ferox is soaked in water for two days, cooked, dried and ground into powder by a cooking machine;

2. Stir Gordon Euryale seed powder, glutinous rice flour and fine sugar;

3. Add water and pour it into a container for compaction;

4. Steam in a steamer for 15 minutes, spread a layer of powdered sugar (or cooked glutinous rice flour) on the chopping board, and cut into pieces;

5. Let it cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

How to eat Euryale ferox cake?

Gordon Euryale cake is often eaten as a snack. There are many ways to eat. Most of them are made of glutinous rice flour and sugar, and some will add dried osmanthus to make it sweeter.

It should be noted that Euryale ferox cake should not be eaten too much. If it is used for conditioning the body, it is best to eat it warm, twice a day in the morning and evening, 2-3 tablets each time, for 5-7 days.

The Historical Origin of Euryale ferox Cake

Gordon Euryale seed cake was first developed in Xitang, and evolved from Bazhen cake (Bazhen cake has been in Xitang for 150 years). Bazhen cake is made of eight kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, dried and packaged, crisp and delicious. Today's Gordon Euryale cake is refined from Gordon Euryale and glutinous rice puffed powder, which is more delicate and chewy than the original Bazhen cake. Xitang's earliest Pingantang Gorgon cake shop has been a pastry chef for more than 20 years. Gordon Euryale seed cake and its sweet-scented osmanthus Gordon seed cake have obvious sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, and the pollen honey Gordon Euryale seed cake (also called pollen cake) has a very unique fragrance. Walnut cakes have the original flavor of walnuts, and orange-red cakes are not made of Euryale ferox, but they are also quite different here in Xitang. After years of circulation, this kind of Euryale ferox cake has been found in many ancient towns and even Taobao.