Recipe for Zhongyang Gao (cake)
Double Ninth Festival Cake originated from Jiangsu Province, a type of pastry.The Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of the ninth month in the lunar calendar has long been an important festival for Chinese people. Therefore, eating Double Ninth Cakes on this day has become a custom.。The methods of making Double Ninth Cake have evolved into many different approaches over time. Today, I will introduce several ways to make it and show you some pictures of the cake. The Origin of Double Ninth Cake
The Method of Making Double Ninth Cake, as its name implies, is related to the Double Ninth Festival. It has a long history behind it!
About the Double Ninth FestivalAround the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, there was already a Double Ninth Festival, which was originally a military training day. Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty ordered soldiers to have dry food during their breaks for exercises. This dry food was almost the prototype of the current Double Ninth Cake. During the Tang Dynasty, the military customs of the Double Ninth Festival were further developed, and people were encouraged to climb mountains, which not only exercised their bodies but also had the meaning of rising step by step. The custom of eating cake continued.
Red Beans Method for Making Double Ninth Cake
Ingredients
Glutinous Rice Powder 1000 grams, Indica Rice Powder 500 grams. Green and RedCandied Fruit and Sesame 100 grams, red beans 250 grams. Sugar 1000 grams, brown sugar 50 grams, peanut oil 25 grams. Steps
1. First, cut the green and red candied fruit into threads for use.
2. Cook the red beans, 250 grams of sugar, and peanut oil to make dry bean paste; set aside.
3. Mix glutinous rice powder and indica rice powder, add 150 grams of brown sugar with 50 grams of water to make a paste-like dough.
4. Mix the remaining flour with 750 grams of sugar and 250 grams of water; mix thoroughly.Glutinous Rice Powder,
5. Take a steamer, lay clean wet cloth on it, place half of the flour mixture to level it, spread the bean paste evenly over it, then add the remaining half of the flour mixture and level it. Steam until steam is seen.
6. Spread the paste-like dough evenly when the steam has come out, sprinkle green and red threads, continue steaming until the cake is cooked; turn off the heat.7. Take out the cake, cut into diamond-shaped pieces with a knife.。
Chestnut Double Ninth Cake, Ingredients
Chestnuts
500 grams (roasted chestnuts without shell and skin mashed), flour 150 grams, smoked Green Peas
100 grams,
Black Sesame 100 grams, Red Dates paste 100 grams, Pumpkin Seeds 50 grams,Pine Nuts 50 grams, sugar-coated green and red threads 50 grams, sweet yellow thread 50 grams, brown sugar 750 grams,Pork Fat 250 grams, sugar Osmanthus Flowers 10 grams.Steps 1. Mix flour with chestnut paste and brown sugar to make sweet powder.Then take 1/3 of the sweet powder, add pork fat and remaining brown sugar, mix into oil-sugar powder for use later. 2. Combine smoked green beans, black sesame, date paste, pumpkin seeds, sugar-coated green and red threads, sweet yellow threads together; set aside.3. Sieve the mixed sweet powder and oil-sugar powder in three layers: two on top and bottom are sweet powders, one in the middle is oil-sugar powder. 4. Sprinkle the combined ingredients on the cake surface, add osmanthus flowers, then steam before cutting into oblique square pieces; once cooked, take out.
Ordinary Double Ninth Cake
Ingredients Preparation1.5 kilograms of glutinous rice powder, 1 kilogram of indica rice powder, 0.5 kilograms of sugar,
Red and Green Rice
and yellow pearls, soy sauce colorants, green and red honey threads, a little roasted sesame.
Method Steps
1. Mix glutinous rice powder with indica rice powder into mixed flour, form a depression in the center, add sugar with 0.75 kilograms of water, knead repeatedly until soft and not sticky, rest for 2 hours;
2. When the cake flour is dry and fluffy, sift through fine mesh, remove lumps, set aside.
5 steaming trays, grease bottoms lightly to prevent sticking, pour steamed flour into trays evenly, steam over high heat until cooked;3. Mix colorants with water respectively for 4 different colored liquid solutions; apply to 4 steaming trays' cake surfaces; 4. Sprinkle a thin layer of flour on the natural-colored cake, steam again until cooked;
5. Brush colored and filling sugars, sprinkle roasted sesame and green red threads, cool before cutting into triangular pieces, arrange in a dish.
Conclusion
These are two different methods for making Double Ninth Cake and pictures of the cake.
On this Double Ninth Festival day, don't forget to make some yourself; not only is it a way to eat, but also an inheritance and promotion of tradition!
4 Mix the pigments with water to create four different colored liquids and apply them to the surface of four steamer grids respectively;
5 Apply a thin layer of rice flour on the plain-colored cake and steam it until cooked;
6 Brush the cake surfaces with pigment and sweet filling, sprinkle roasted sesame seeds and honey preserved red and green threads. After cooling, cut the five colored cakes into triangles and arrange them on a plate.
Conclusion
These are two different methods for making Double Ninth Festival cakes, as well as the presentation of images of the cakes. Do not forget to make some Double Ninth Festival cakes on this Double Ninth Day; it is both eating and inheriting and promoting traditional culture!
