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China cake

Chinese traditional cakes are as follows:

Osmanthus Jelly 1

Osmanthus Jelly has a history of more than 300 years. According to legend, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a vendor named Liu Jixiang in Xindu County made a world-renowned "Han Delicious Cake" with glutinous rice flour, sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus as raw materials, and this delicious taste was Osmanthus Jelly, with delicate and soft taste and rich fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.

2. Mung bean cake

According to legend, China ancient ancestors ate zongzi, realgar wine, mung bean cake and salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only has a long cultural background, especially in summer, mung bean cake is refreshing and cool.

3. water chestnut cake

Water chestnut cake, according to legend, originated in the Tang Dynasty and was steamed with water chestnut powder or sweet potato powder mixed with sugar water. Water chestnut, Cantonese and Min dialects are also called horseshoes, hence the name. Its color is brown, translucent, and it can be folded without cracking. It is soft, smooth, cool and tough.

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The reason why snowballing usury is named "snowballing usury" is because the soybeans sown in its final production process are like the loess raised by wild donkeys in the suburbs of old Beijing. "Snowball donkey" is covered with bean powder, golden yellow, sweet bean stuffing and soft entrance.

5. eggs

Eggs, the main raw materials of eggs are flour, peanuts, sesame seeds, walnuts and so on. , built in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, has a history of 170 years. It is famous for its sweet pine flavor and salty sweetness.