Kidney bean cake

Kidney bean cake is a famous snack in old Beijing. If we trace its origin, the emperor's age will be there. It is a typical palace spot, just like pea yellow. In fact, kidney bean cake originally belonged to a folk snack in old Beijing. Popular in the streets. It is said that vendors usually carry a round wooden barrel covered with white cloth and filled with white kidney bean paste, which can be made into small cakes and apples with stuffing, or they can wrap the stuffing, mostly red bean paste or hawthorn cake, knead it into a ball, press it in the moon cake mold one by one, and then knock it out. Small and exquisite, it looks good. Kidney bean cake is white in color and soft in texture. It is sweet and refreshing to eat in the mouth, soft but not greasy. Later, it was said that it was because Cixi heard the peddling in the street and introduced it into the palace. Once she ate it, she couldn't stop. So the man was left in the palace, and the kidney bean cake became the imperial dessert of Cixi. Kidney bean cake, like pea yellow and Aiwowo, is usually a snack in Qingming Festival.
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