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What kind of cake is eaten at Qingming Festival in Ningdu

The cake eaten at Qingming Festival is called Qingming Cake, which is a traditional food for Qingming Festival popular in the south of the Yangtze River.

It is said that this Qingming cold traditional cakes, created in the Song Dynasty, then commonly known as "powder dough", to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, before the official prevalence of Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. But folk production, advocating the appropriate vegetarian should not meat, excluding fat meat, in order to link with the Qingming Festival from the spirit of the idea.

The practice of Qingming cake:

Materials: 500 grams of round-grained rice flour, 333 grams of glutinous rice flour, 250 grams of cotton cabbage

Filling: pork, pickles, bamboo shoots, carrots, dried tofu, mushrooms, shrimp, scallions, etc.

Practice:

1, cotton cabbage washed blanch, blanching, blanching and then fished out of the rinse cold water.

2, into the cooking machine with the right amount of water to break.

3, in the cotton vegetable juice add round-grained rice flour, glutinous rice flour (3:2), into the bread machine and select the program.

4: When the mixing is finished, divide it into 80 grams of dough.

5. Stir fry the filling ingredients and set aside (add or subtract according to personal preference).

6: Shape the dough into a bowl and fill it with the filling.

7, Qingming cakes underneath the pad "pomelo leaves", you can also use palm leaves or greaseproof paper instead, steamed under water for about 15 minutes, the aroma of the nose.