water chrysanthemum cake

Overview

Shui Hagi cake, I also call it Shui Ju cake, is a specialty of Susong County, Qianshan, Huaining, Taihu, Wangjiang, Yuexi and other counties in Anqing City, Anhui Province. In my hometown, there is a custom of eating chrysanthemum cake on March 3rd. Asked about the origin of this custom, the old man said that in the old days, it was said that the third day of the third lunar month was the Ghost Festival. In the evening of this day, wild ghosts came out and took in the children's souls. Eating the soul of rat song cake can stick to the soul, and the child will be healthy and strong. The homophony of "ba" is taken here, which means to control adhesion. This custom is superstitious, but rat cake, as a traditional delicacy in the countryside, has given us a good taste. Water chrysanthemum is called water chrysanthemum, scientific name is rat, also known as rat ear, a kind of weed in the Poyang Lake wetland. Every spring, this weed can be seen everywhere in Susong fields, valleys and slopes in Anqing. The chrysanthemum seeds are gray in color, with soft leaves and a layer of soft down on the outside. The flowers are small and yellow in color. Pick them, boil them and squeeze them into juice. Then make cakes with late rice flour, add some fillings of your choice, put them in a basket or other cooking utensils and steam them before eating.

Tags

• staple food
• home cooking
• bacon
• chaotian pepper
• garlic
• glutinous rice flour
• peanut oil
• pickles
• rice noodles
• water chrysanthemum
• zong leaves
• ginger
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 The washed water chrysanthemum seems to be called mugwort in Guangdong

   

2. 2 Chop the pickles into small cubes

   

3. 3 The bacon is also cut into small cubes. I use salted duck leg meat here, but my mother uses bacon in my hometown and it tastes better

   

4. 4 Cut ginger, garlic and chili into small cubes

   

5. 5 Put oil in the pot, then add ginger, garlic, chili, then add bacon and pickles and stir-fry until fragrant, add some soy sauce. Fry well and set aside

   

6. 6 Add appropriate amount of water to water chrysanthemum and grind it in a blender

   

7. 7 Glutinous rice flour and rice flour, the main reason for adding rice flour is not to make the glutinous rice flour too sticky. Pour the water chrysanthemum paste into the powder and stir with chopsticks,

   

8. 8 Add more water and noodles

   

9. 9 Take a medium-sized dough ball, flatten it, wrap the pickled vegetables and bacon heart, and roll it into a round shape. In the first pot, I greased the steamer with oil, but it still stuck. Later, I just put a rice dumpling leaf on it

   

10. 10 It will be cooked in 15 minutes after the fire is turned on. It’s so fragrant