Yangyuan yellow cake

Yangyuan yellow cake is a specialty of Yangyuan County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. Yangyuan people love to eat cakes, which is regarded as a staple food, which means to celebrate the New Year every day and climb high. Every day, when you eat in the canteen or the farmhouse, there must be a plate of Huang Chengcheng's cake in front of everyone's table. Everyone laughs and eats with relish. People in the north eat yellow wheat cake, people in the south eat glutinous rice cake, and ethnic minorities in the west eat Ciba. Generally speaking, eating cakes is in the New Year, which means "sticky" and "year", and "cake" and "high" are homophonic in the south, also known as eating "rice cakes", so as to make a good luck every year. Yangyuan people love cakes very much and regard them as a staple food. They celebrate the New Year every day and climb the mountain every time. Every day, when you eat in the canteen or the farmhouse, there must be a plate of Huang Chengcheng's cake in front of everyone's table. Everyone laughs and eats with relish. Yellow cake is made of peeled millet (commonly known as yellow rice) and ground into flour. The land in Yangyuan is probably very suitable for planting millet crops, with excellent yield and quality. Although the cake made of millet is hard and difficult to digest, it is resistant to hunger. There is an agricultural proverb that says "30-mile oat noodle and 40-mile cake". Local farmers basically use it as food rations, so it is not surprising to eat cake almost every day. Moreover, cake is the first choice for entertaining guests. If you visit a farmer in Yangyuan County for the first time, the host will definitely bring you a plate of delicious cake when you eat. The method for ordinary farmers to make cakes is relatively simple. When making cakes, it is necessary to use warm water to make dough. Because the dough itself has a large amount of water, don't put too much water, so you can keep the dough. Then spread the noodles out and put them on the steamer, steam them for about 15 minutes, put them in a big basin, and start kneading the noodles, also called "chuai cake". Start kneading the dough back and forth while it is hot, and at the same time press the dough hard with your fist. The noodles are very hot. Take a bowl of cold boiled water and soak your hands in cold water. Keep soaking. The cake is very shiny and elastic. Finally, put a layer of sesame oil on the surface and you can eat it. When eating, shovel a piece with a shovel, and eat it with Lai, preferably a braised dish with a lot of soup in ordinary people. City people also often eat cakes, but they are extravagant and cumbersome, and they are often fried, and they should be stuffed with brown sugar or beans. When eating a sugar cake, the hot and sweet sugar juice flows down the corner of your mouth, and then stick out your tongue and turn it around to clean the sugar juice on your lips and make it full of fragrance.
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