Double Ninth Festival cake map (representative of traditional holiday food)

The Double Ninth Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China and an important solar term in autumn. In this festival, people have many traditional customs and activities, the most important of which is to taste the traditional food-Chongyang cake.

1. material preparation

The material for making Chongyang cake is very simple, just prepare glutinous rice flour, red dates, osmanthus, sugar, oil and water. Among them, glutinous rice flour is the main raw material for making Chongyang cake, red dates and osmanthus can add fragrance to the cake, sugar can sweeten the cake, and oil can make the cake softer.

2. Production steps

The making steps of Chongyang cake are also very simple, just follow the following steps.

1. Pour glutinous rice flour into a large bowl, add appropriate amount of water, and stir well until glutinous rice flour becomes glutinous rice paste.

2. Remove the core from the red dates, cut them into small pieces, put them into the glutinous rice paste, and stir well.

3. Add appropriate amount of sweet-scented osmanthus and white sugar to the glutinous rice paste and stir well.

4. Heat the steamer, brush it with a layer of oil, pour the glutinous rice paste into the steamer and steam for about 30 minutes on medium heat.

5. Take out the steamed Chongyang cake, cool it and cut it into small pieces to eat.

3. How to eat Chongyang cake?

Chongyang cake is not only simple to make, but also sweet in taste, which is very suitable for eating as holiday food. When eating Chongyang cake, you can drink tea. Tea can add fragrance to the cake, or sprinkle some sesame seeds or powdered sugar on the cake to increase the variety of tastes.

4. Cultural connotation of Chongyang cake

As one of the representatives of traditional festival foods in China, Chongyang cake is not only a kind of food, but also a kind of cultural connotation. In the traditional culture of China, cake symbolizes reunion and harmony, while the Double Ninth Festival symbolizes ancestor worship and respect for the elderly. Therefore, while people taste Chongyang cake, they are also inheriting and carrying forward the traditional culture of the Chinese nation.