Lingshi yougao

Oil cake is one of the high-grade snacks in Lingshi flavor, and it is also a necessary item for Lingshi people to celebrate holidays, entertain guests, weddings and funerals, and worship the gods. As the saying goes, "Don't eat cakes on the winter solstice, kids will be separated from each other." That is to say, no matter whether they are rich or poor, every household must eat cakes on the winter solstice, which means that luck will rise step by step in the coming year, and life will be sweet (stuffed). The traditional method of making oil cakes has a long history. With the gradual improvement of living standards, many patterns have been added, which can be roughly divided into two types: rice flour cakes and white flour cakes. Rice flour cakes include soft rice flour cakes and Jiang rice flour cakes. No matter what kind of cake, its making method is basically the same. First, make stuffing, put adzuki beans and red dates in the pot, cook them thoroughly with stable fire, add a little brown sugar to improve the sweetness when the water is exhausted, and grind them into bean paste with a spoon. The worse the better, the bean paste is made. Add a little boiled water to the cake surface, knead it into a steamed bun shape, then dip it in a little cooking oil and make dough, divide it into several small pieces with the same size, like wrapping jiaozi, wrap it with bean paste, flatten it into a round cake with a diameter of about several centimeters, and then fry it in an oil pan to eat. The history of white flour cake is later than that of rice flour cake, and the production methods are not the same. Making stuffing: First, stir-fry sesame seeds, peanuts, walnuts, melon seeds, etc. and grind sesame seeds into powder, then chop everything else into pieces, and then add appropriate amount of white sugar and stir well to make the stuffing. Making cake crust: steam sweet potato (sweet potato) in a cage, peel it completely, grind it into mud, add proper amount of white flour and mix it evenly, then make stuffing, knead it into a round cake shape, or knead it into a semicircle shape, and fry it in an oil pan until golden brown. Whether it is rice flour cake or white flour cake, it is bright, sweet and delicious, and it is one of the popular foods welcomed by the people.
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