Hometown Delicacies (5) Sugar Cake

Sugar cake belongs to zhenyuan county, Qingyang City. In the early 1980s, when I was studying in Zhenyuan Teachers College, I tasted this kind of food for the first time and was captured by its delicacy.

At that time, because my son had just turned half a year old, he was still breastfeeding. I rented a house near the school and took my sister who just graduated from junior high school to take care of the children.

Our landlord is a middle-aged couple in their fifties. They have five daughters and a son. The first three daughters are all married. The three younger children are still at school, and the family has a heavy burden, mainly relying on selling sugar cakes on the street to make a living.

Before going to bed every night, the landlord and his wife should make two pots of fermented noodles and put them on the kang to wake them up naturally. At three o'clock the next morning, the landlord's house began to get busy. Their division of labor is very clear. The wife is responsible for kneading dough, the strong husband is responsible for kneading dough, and the two older children help with housework. The youngest child is only eight or nine years old and can't help.

They should make sure that sugar and oil cakes are ready before eight o'clock every morning and take them to a fixed booth for sale.

When there was no class on weekends, I helped them stir-fry sugar cakes several times and learned how to make them.

To make sugar cakes, first make the fermented dough in advance, and then mix the dough. Dough is very particular. Mix one third of fermented dough, raw flour and cooked flour with proper amount of honey, red pond, eggs, cooked oil and alkaline flour, and knead them together. Half an hour after waking up, rub it repeatedly. Then pull the woken noodles into fist-sized pieces, knead them into small cakes, and cut one or two slits in the middle with a kitchen knife. Finally, fry in a hot oil pan. At this time, the temperature is also very particular. Boil the oil pan, roll the cake down, float it, turn it over, and then fry it slowly with low fire.

To reward me, after work, they always send some sugar cakes to my sister and me. Just out of the pot, the sugar cake is golden and the color is very attractive. Take a bite, it's crisp and sweet, and it's very delicious. That smell still makes my mouth water when I think about it now.

After studying in Zhenyuan for two years, I will buy polysaccharide oil cakes as gifts for my family and relatives in my husband's family to taste every semester. So far, as long as sugar cakes are mentioned, relatives are still full of praise.

Friends, do you want to eat? If you want to eat, come to zhenyuan county, Qingyang and try it!