Yanggao fried cake

Yanggao Fried Cake, which is steamed and fried in yellow wheat, is a kind of food similar to Southern New Year Cake, so it is named because of its golden color. Yanggao fried cake is small and thin. Cake fillings are all made according to personal taste, including bean paste, jujube paste, pith oil, sauerkraut and minced meat. There are many shapes of oil cakes, some are round like chess pieces, some are crescent-shaped, some are pinched into triangles, some become "xianggong hats" with one hand pressed, and some are simply wrapped into dumplings, and so on. Put the cake into the oil pan and fry it slowly with slow fire. The oil cake after taking out is crispy outside and fragrant inside, soft and delicious, and the more you eat, the more fragrant it is. Fried cake is a high-grade food. Because of the homonym of "cake" and "Gao", eating oil cake has become a necessary staple food for Yang Gaoren's Chinese New Year holiday, wedding celebration, birthday, moving to a new house and welcoming guests, which is commonly called "hi cake". In Yanggao, hi-cake is a good gift for relatives and friends. When you get married, you have to "send oil cakes with three guns" in the early morning of that day, and all the neighbors have to send them. There is also a folk allegorical saying that "sending cakes next door, one for another", and sending cakes here has become a etiquette of mutual communication.
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